When Ukraine will Finally Have its Great Emblem?

When will we finally adopt endoscopic ultrasound?

I read with interest the article in a recent issue of CHEST (August 2014) by Liberman et al, 1 who performed a prospective lung cancer staging trial in which patients underwent both an endobronchial ultrasound (EBUS) and endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) investigation followed by surgical staging. Th e combination of an endobronchial and esophageal approach was superior in detecting (sensitivity, 91%...

Cycle Time Prediction: When Will This Case Finally Be Finished?

A typical question for people dealing with administrative processes is: “When will my case be finished?”. In this paper, we show how this question can be answered, using historic information in the form of event logs of the systems supporting these administrative processes. Many information systems record information about activities performed for past cases in logs. Hence, to provide insights ...

The great fluid debate: when will physiology prevail?

248 August 2013 I N this issue of ANesthesiology, Konrad et al.1 present a study in pigs in which they compare the renal microvascular oxygenation effects by using either a balanced crystalloid solution or a balanced hydroxyethyl starch 6% 130/0.4 solution (hes) for acute normovolemic hemodilution to a fixed hematocrit of 15%. They have chosen this method to assess the impact of crystalloids an...

When will US Employment Recover from the Great Recession?

Gastrointestinal bacteria will have its way.

Louis Weinstein, the late renowned infectious diseases physician, has often been quoted (perhaps apocryphally) as stating, “We know everything we need to know about antibiotics except how much to give and how long to give them.” Since the era of that quote (roughly the 1980s), theworld has changed considerably. The science of pharmacokinetics-pharmacodynamics has matured to the point that we ca...