The wide blue yonder

Off we go into the wild blue yonder: preflight hypoxic testing in patients with congenital heart disease.

Yonder: Self-harm, repeat prescribing, deprescribing, and worry.

Self-harm. Most self-harm research has taken place in secondary care, although clearly primary care has an essential role in most cases. The Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) is an increasingly popular UK general practice data source and it was recently used to examine primary care clinical management following episodes of selfharm.1 Using data from 684 general practices, researchers i...

Yonder: Hearing aids, postpartum depression, acute asthma, and online records.

Hearing aids. Despite technological advancements, hearing aids continue to be the most common intervention for hearing loss. However, for a variety of practical and psychological reasons, people fitted with hearing aids often stop using them. In the UK, volunteers who often wear hearing aids themselves have supported NHS patients’ use of hearing aids and a Bristol research team recently sought ...

Absence Makes the Phone Ring Yonder - An end-to-end attendance recording and tracking system

In New Zealand schools there is rising concern regarding pupil enrolment and absenteeism. MUSAC, a business unit of Massey University, has worked with two other service providers to devise an end-to-end tracking system for pupil attendance. The process begins with teachers entering attendance information by mobile phone and ends when the database is automatically updated with information return...

Out of the blue: Blue blood.!

© 2017 Asian Journal of Transfusion Science | Published by Wolters Kluwer ‐ Medknow Sir, A 29‐year‐old male patient with carcinoma of the gastroesophageal junction was posted for transhiatal esophagectomy. Intraoperatively, 2 units of packed red cells were ordered for transfusion to the patient and were issued to the patient as per the departmental standard operating procedure including pretran...