CONTEXT We provide an overview of the principles of blood management: the appropriate use of blood and blood components, with a goal of minimizing their use. OBJECTIVE To review the strategies that exploit combinations of surgical and medical techniques, technologic devices, and pharmaceuticals, along with an interdisciplinary team approach that combines specialists who are expert at minimizi...

The introduction of intracoronary stents represented a major advance in interventional cardiology. While bare metal stents set the benchmark for improved safety over angioplasty, intimal hyperplasia and subsequent restenosis were important limitations. First-generation drug-eluting stents demonstrated significant improvements in efficacy, but not necessarily safety, and further technologic deve...

To protect public health and national safety, AMIA recommends that the federal government dedicate technologic resources and medical informatics expertise to create a national health information infrastructure (NHII). An NHII provides the underlying information utility that connects local health providers and health officials through high-speed networks to national data systems necessary to det...

Despite the broad technologic advancements of medicine, screening for illness in infants is highly reliant on a complete physical exam. For this reason it is critical that the examining physician not only have a thorough understanding of abnormal findings but also the normal findings and their variants. The vast majority of infants are healthy and findings predictive of future health problems a...

Technologic change has proceeded at a rapid pace during the past twenty years, and advances that are even more remarkable are in sight over the next decade. These changes will be driven largely by advances in molecular and cell biology, imaging techniques, and tissue engineering. Therapies directed toward causes rather than consequences of disease could conceivably produce inexpensive cures and...

Hypercalciuria is an important, identifiable, and reversible risk factor in stone formation. The foremost and most fundamental step in dissecting the genetics of hypercalciuria is understanding its pathophysiology. Hypercalciuria is a complex trait. This article outlines the various factors that compromise the attempt to dissect the genetics of hypercalciuria, summarizes the clinical and experi...

Pancreatic cancer is a devastating disease with few effective treatment modalities. Stereotactic body radiation therapy is a novel technique that takes advantage of the technologic advancements in image guidance and radiation dose delivery to direct ablative doses to tumors with acceptable toxicity that was not previously achievable with conventional techniques. Recent literature contains repor...

Abstract Within health care projects for change and innovation, professionals should ambitiously cooperate in order to yield a creative multidisciplinary mindset guaranteed innovative output. Failure of innovation is amongst others due deterioration insufficient focus on relational aspects. Aim; an management tool facilitating process launched. Methods; Systemic (SI) social network model, subsi...