Defending Clinician Values: Quality-in-Use of Decision Support Systems for Thoracic Surgery Linda Lidman1,2 M.Sc., Ankica Babic1, 5 Ph.D., Mattias Arvola2 M.Sc. Urban Lönn3, MD, Ph.D., Henrik Casimir-Ahn4 M.D., Ph.D. 1. Medical Informatics, Dept of Biomedical Engineering, Linköping University, Sweden. 2. Department of Computer and Information Science, Linköping University, Sweden. 3. Department...

A 44-year-old man was admitted with coughing and dyspnea for 3 weeks. Chest radiography and thoracic CT scanning confirmed a huge left lung arteriovenous malformation (Fig. 1). Due to a prohibitively high operative risk, he was investigated with pulmonary angiography in preparation for embolization therapy (Fig. 2). The patient subsequently refused all further therapy. European Journal of Cardi...

Patients suffering from cardiovascular disease are vulnerable to physical and emotional stress. If, in addition, the patients have to undergo dental treatment, it will add to their stress. Cardiac patients may collapse in the dental clinic due to various cardiac emergencies or drug interactions. Hence, patients with cardiac disease may pose a significant risk in dental clinics. Multidisciplinar...

1010-7940/$ — see front matter # 2009 European Association for Cardio-Thoracic S doi:10.1016/j.ejcts.2009.05.028 A 56-year-old woman, presenting with bronchiectasis (Fig. 1), underwent a chest computed tomography (CT) with three-dimensional reconstructions showing marked hypertrophy of the bronchial arteries (Fig. 2, Video 1). This pathophysiological phenomenon places the patient at high risk f...

Nowadays, most oncologists have treated their patients with solid tumors by using hyperthermia with good results even though they have a large amount of different thoughts on the mechanism of oncological hyperthermia. We have treated our patients with solid tumor confirmed lung carcinoma with chemotherapy or radiotherapy with oncothermia [1] at the Department of Thoracic and Cardio-vascular Sur...

Ketamine is a unique anesthetic drug that provides analgesia, hypnosis, and amnesia with minimal respiratory and cardiovascular depression. Because of its sympathomimetic properties it would seem to be an excellent choice for patients with depressed ventricular function in cardiac surgery. However, its use has not gained widespread acceptance in adult cardiac surgery patients, perhaps due to it...