To know or not to know: does EEG monitoring in the paediatric intensive care unit add anything besides cost?

EEG monitoring in the intensive care unit.

EEG recording in the intensive care setting presents a number of technical challenges. It is essential to differentiate artifact from pathophysiologic EEG changes that would suggest encephalopathy, epileptiform activity, or seizures. There are particular patterns typical of deepening encephalopathy, as well as, coma patterns that have diagnostic and prognostic significance (e.g., spindle coma, ...

Do We Know What We Do not Know? A Response to Celine Bonnet

Molecular approaches to diagnosis of invasive aspergillosis what we know and what we do not know.

Invasive aspergillosis (IA) are a major complication in immunocompromized patients where can be serious and rapidly fatal. Early diagnosis and early appropriate antifungal treatment is important in reducing mortality and morbidity. But despite many efforts to develop detection methods, the diagnosis of IA still remains challenging and current conventional methods are limited for adequate diagno...

To know or not to know? Not the only question in familial breast cancer risk communication

BACKGROUND Breast cancer is the most frequently diagnosed cancer and the leading cause of cancer death in females, 5-10% of these breast cancers occur in women because of an inherited mutation. The term 'risk' in relation to familial cancer can have multiple meanings for both clinicians and patients. Failing to identify and address this may impair effective communication and informed decision m...

Getting to Know the Nominal Group Technique

سخن سردبیر Editorial مجله دانشگاه علوم پزشکی رفسنجان دوره هفدهم، فروردین 1398، 2-1             آشنایی با روش گروه صوری Getting to Know the Nominal Group Technique   محسن رضائیان[1]،[2]   M. Rezaeian   در سخن سردبیری بهمن ماه سال گذشته به روش دلفی پرداخته و اشاره کردیم که این روش، یکی از راه‌های دست‌یابی به توافق پیرامون یک موضوع می‌باشد [1]. هدف از نگارش این سخن سردبیری، پرداخت...