THE DIRECT MORTALITY associated with operations upon the heart and great vessels has steadily declined as surgeons have become more familiar with the operative management of various congenital and acquired malformations, and as improvements have been made in methods of preoperative preparation, the conduct of cardiopulmonary bypass, and in postoperative management. Nevertheless, complications s...

Although antipsychotic drugs have a high therapeutic index (ratio of clinical benefit to adverse effects), they are associated with a range of adverse effects in most patients. The majority of these side effects are tolerable, readily managed, and not life threatening. The most troublesome side effects are neurological. Two new antipsychotics (clozapine and risperidone) have recently been intro...

OBJECTIVES To report complications of cochlear implantation (CI) in children and to analyze risk factors. DESIGN Retrospective study from January 1, 1990, through April 30, 2008, with a mean follow-up of 5.5 years (range, 1 month to 17 years). SETTING Tertiary academic center. PATIENTS Four hundred thirty-four patients younger than 16 years. Mean age at CI was 4.7 (range, 0.6-16.0) years....

OBJECTIVE To estimate the immediate adverse events and safety of medical compared with surgical abortion using high-quality registry data. METHODS All women in Finland undergoing induced abortion from 2000-2006 with a gestational duration of 63 days or less (n=42,619) were followed up until 42 days postabortion using national health registries. The incidence and risk factors of adverse events...