AIMS Lactate reflects hypoxic insult in many conditions and is considered as a prognosis factor. But, after cardiac arrest, its interest is still debated. Our study aimed to assess the prognosis value of lactate in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients treated with therapeutic hypothermia. METHODS This retrospective observational study included out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients treate...

BACKGROUND A retrospective review is presented of a single institution's experience with multivisceral resections for locally-advanced colorectal cancer. MATERIALS AND METHODS Twenty-eight patients, who had undergone RO multiorgan resection, were identified from the database of a total of 1150 patients operated on for colorectal carcinoma in the years 1995-2005 at a single center. There were ...