e increasing prevalence of the use of enteral feeding tubes during critical illness leads to the increased potential for malposition of the tube [1], which may result in severe complications. We report tracheo-bronchial malposition of feeding tubes in six mechanically ventilated patients. six multiple trauma patients with mechanical ventilation in the emergency ICU were included in this study. ...

This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Eosinophils are associated with numerous disorders, including helminthic parasitic infectio...

A newly developed (off-line) spatial compound scanner was used to scan formalin-fixed atherosclerotic carotid plaques. Fony-eight B-mode images were recorded using 7 insonification angles. All calculations were done on the envelope-detected image data. The mean amplitude level (MALJ in (relative) volts was calculated for the plaque region in each image. for each of the 7 angles between 0.12 V a...

SCIENTIFIC BACKGROUND Appendicitis is an inflammation of the appendix of the blind intestine. Appendicitis remains the most frequent cause for an acute abdomen. Both interventions, the open surgical (through opening of the abdominal cavity) as well as the laparoscopic approach (via insertion of an optic system and instruments into the abdominal cavity through three small incisions), are used fo...

-The report attempts to delineatecertain residual learning capacities of H.M., a young man who became amnesic in 1953 following a bilateral removal in the hippocampal zone. In addition to being able to acquire new motor skills (CoRKIN [2]), this patient shows some evidence of perceptual learning. He also achieves some retention of very simple visual and tactual mazes in which the sequence of re...

Ithas been nearly 50 years since I started doingmolecular biology as a graduate student in the Department of Biophysics at The Johns Hopkins University. I am still doing molecular biology, but I now findmyself just as interested in geology; and although I will never really be a geologist, I have been on some fascinating field trips in the past eight years to South Africa, Namibia, Oman, Austral...

tomy performed nearly 20 years ago has favored the performance of increasingly aggressive procedures to reduce surgical trauma and improve quality of life during the postoperative period of time (1,2). The management of gastric cancer could not escape this trend, and various minimally invasive technical options have been currently described – early-stage endoscopic mucosal resection, partial re...

When I agreed to write this opinion piece onwork–life balance, I quickly added it tomy office whiteboard to-do list: “Work-Life Balance –October.” These fourwords generatedmuchdiscussion – from jokes about the short timetable that I have to achieve the perfect work–life balance to conversations about how we are all trying to find work–life balance. As a female academic intensivist and both an I...

to occur in up to 85% of patients [1] treated with radical hysterec tomy. Urinary symptoms include stress incontinence, sensory loss, bladder voiding dysfunction as hypotonic and hypertonic detrusor function [1]. These symptoms may affect the quality of life of patients surviving cervical cancer. Voiding disorders have been related to the damage of the hypogastric nerve and of the inferior hypo...

© The Author 2007. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please e-mail: [email protected]. Radiation therapy is an essential component of the local management of breast cancer. The overview from the Early Breast Cancer Trialists’ Collaborative Group ( 1 ) indicates that adjuvant radiation therapy after breast-conserving surgery results...