University-School Partnerships: 10 Lessons Learned Over the Past 10 Years

Hemodynamic monitoring over the past 10 years

Changes in hemodynamic monitoring over the past 10 years have followed two paths. First, there has been a progressive decrease in invasive monitoring, most notably a reduction in the use of the pulmonary artery catheter because of a presumed lack of efficacy in its use in the management of critically ill patients, with an increased use of less invasive monitoring requiring only central venous a...

Antifungal therapy: lessons learned over the past 27 years.

As principal investigator of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases-sponsored Mycoses Study Group for the past 27 years, I have been fortunate to play a role in the many advances in the field of clinical mycology and antifungal therapy. For the Finland lecture, I will briefly discuss the development of the Mycoses Study Group, provide an overview of the currently available an...

Lessons learned from 10 years experience with remote laboratories

Remote access laboratories using internet communications have been available in prototype form since the mid 1990's (Goldberg 1999, Taylor and Trevelyan 1995, Henry 2003). We started our on-line laboratory facilities at the University of Western Australia in October 1994 with the commissioning of Australia's Telerobot on the Web. This paper reviews all the principal lessons we learned since 199...

Needlescopic Cholecystectomy: Lessons Learned in 10 Years of Experience

OBJECTIVES Needlescopic cholecystectomy (NC) is a refinement of laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) using 2-mm instruments compared with the standard 5-mm and 10-mm ports. We review our experience with needlescopic cholecystectomy. METHODS From 1994 to 2004, 303 patients underwent NC. All patients were operated on using 2-mm instruments and one 10-mm trocar for the laparoscope. The characterist...

Hypercalcaemia: changing causes over the past 10 years.