Can Cognition Survive Heart Surgery?

Can cognition survive heart surgery?

In this issue of Circulation, Jensen et al 1 report that cognitive difficulties were no fewer when off-pump (OPCAB) versus conventional (CCAB) coronary artery bypass grafting was used. This important investigation, a substudy of the Best Bypass Surgery Trial, is a randomized prospective controlled trial that compares OPCAB with CCAB. Although the numbers seem relatively small (ie, 120 elderly p...

Can England's NHS survive?

n engl j med 369;1 nejm.org july 4, 2013 1 a crisis that can be resolved only by altering the fundamental principle on which it was founded — provision of funding from general taxation, with care being free at the point of use. Although the criticism was sparked by a February report on an inquiry into shortcomings at one hospital,1 the problems originated in 2010, when two profound forces were ...

Some surface subgroups survive surgery

T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T Abstract It is shown that with finitely many exceptions, the fundamental group obtained by Dehn surgery on a one cusped hyperbolic 3–manifold contains the fundamental group of a closed surface.

The health care market: can hospitals survive?

Does it sound familiar? Resources are scarce, competition is tough, and government regulations and a balanced budget are increasingly hard to meet at the same time. This is not the automobile or oil industry but the health care industry, and hospital managers are facing the same problems. And, maintains the author of this article, they must borrow some proven marketing techniques from business ...

Coxibs: Can this Class of Drugs Survive?