Should we keep levosimendan in our pharmacies? Yes, undoubtedly!

Yes, We Can! (Should We?).

In spite of good results with 'inject and cut', should we scrutinize it? - yes, we should!

(2) Moreover, there is no agreement on and no international standardization of diagnostic criteria, which range from subjective macroscopic aspect, real and virtual chromoendoscopy and endomicroscopic methods up to optical biopsy and high-resolution endosonography [4] . (3) The same holds true for the definition and standardization of endoscopic techniques. Procedures such as polypectomy, EMR, ...

Efaproxiral: should we hold our breath?

Suh et al breathe a bit of new life into two long-standing endeavors with their report in this issue of a phase III study of whole-brain radiotherapy (WBRT) and efaproxiral (RSR13), a hemoglobin modifier meant to increase tissue oxygenation. For decades, radiation oncologists have sought to enhance tumor control and patient survival by addressing the problem of hypoxia and, separately, to impro...

How do we keep our residents safe? An educational intervention.

OBJECTIVE Recent evidence suggests that 25-64 % of psychiatry residents are the victims of assault by patients; only a minority, however, feel they receive adequate safety and violence training during residency. To address this disparity, the author designed, implemented, and assessed the effectiveness of a brief educational intervention focused on improving the residents' ability to recognize ...

Should we abandon the periodic health examination?: YES.

Dr Mavriplis states that it is often difficult to dedicate time for preventive care in a busy family practice. According to McWhinney,1 if every patient in a practice of 2000 had a 20-minute annual health examination, it would occupy the physician full-time for 22 weeks of every year. Another study estimated that more than 40% of all direct patient time for primary care physicians is taken up b...