Should patients be advised not to drive for 4 days after isoflurane anaesthesia?

Should patients be advised not to fly post thoracentesis?

Air travel poses a risk to patients with a pneumothorax due to in-flight pressure changes and guidance is available providing advice on air travel in patients with a pneumothorax. Pneumothorax is a recongnised complication of pleural thoracentesis, however chest radiographs have been shown to have limited sensitivity in diagnosing pneumothoraces and small pneumothoraces may not be recognised. T...

When should patients be allowed to drive after ICD implantation?

I-14: Assisted Reproduction and Religion What Consideration Should Be and Should Not Be Relevant,

Several important issues are pertinent to an ethical discussion of the new technology today grouped under the name Assisted Reproduction Technology (ART). This is a moral imperative because each of us must decide what is to be considered ethically acceptable in assisted reproduction. Reflecting on the ethical dimension of ‘creating’ a new human life can play a major role in ensuring that in eac...

MRS Shimming: An Important Point Which Should not be Ignored

Introduction: Proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) is a well-known device for analyzing the biological fluids metabolically. Obtaining accurate and reliable information via MRS needs a homogeneous magnetic field in order to provide well-defined peaks and uniform water suppression. There are lots of reasons which can disturb the magnetic field homogeneity which can be corrected by a proc...

Not all patients should be admitted to the hospital for observation after a transient ischemic attack.

Should this patient be urgently evaluated? Yes, this patient should be evaluated because any transient ischemic attack (TIA), regardless of ABCD2 score,1 may be due to significant arterial stenosis or a cardiac source of embolism that needs to be urgently detected and treated. When? This person should be evaluated within hours after the first call to medical attention because a devastating stro...