Clinical documentation captured in a patient's record provides health care personnel with information that can be used to guide patient care. Data collected in electronic health records can be accessed and aggregated across the health care delivery system to enhance the safety, quality, and efficacy of care. The updated AORN "Guideline for patient information management" provides guidance to pe...

At the European Multidisciplinary Cancer Congress (EMCC), held in Stockholm in September 2011, a recurring theme in many of the workshops was personalised medicine, including the latest developments in prognostic and predictive biomarkers. Such markers, it is hoped, will enable clinicians to use available resources to best effects-by offering treatments to only those patients most likely to ben...

Being edentulous is a handicap, and the main objective of implant placement is to provide support of fixed prostheses or to stabilize complete dentures in the edentulous jaw. Clinical experience and clinical studies have demonstrated the broad application of non-submerged ITI implants in prosthetic therapy in standard sites and in situations of advanced atrophy or substantial loss of tissue. Th...

Obesity is a serious disorder and an increasing problem all over the world. During the past several decades, the worldwide prevalence of obesity has steadily risen, with the greatest increase occurring in the United States. The incidence of obesity has doubled in adults and tripled in children in the United States over the past 30 years; more than 60 million adults and 9 million children aged 6...

Preoperative anaemia is common in patients undergoing orthopaedic and other major surgery. Anaemia is associated with increased risks of postoperative mortality and morbidity, infectious complications, prolonged hospitalization, and a greater likelihood of allogeneic red blood cell (RBC) transfusion. Evidence of the clinical and economic disadvantages of RBC transfusion in treating perioperativ...

Following are the preferred responses for the Patient Management Problem in this issue. The case, questions, and answer options are repeated, and the preferred response appears in bold print, followed by an explanation and a reference with which you may seek more specific information. You are encouraged to review the responses and explanations carefully to evaluate your general understanding of...

The main objective of aortic valve replacement (AVR) is to relieve left ventricular (LV) burden and normalized LV mass (LVM). During AVR, many surgeons make final decision to select the size of the prosthetic valve based on intraoperative measurement. It is ideal to place an aortic prosthesis that is appropriately sized to the patient. However, this is not always possible owing to insufficient ...