Identifying key outcome metrics in pancreatic surgery, and how to optimally achieve them

Septic shock resuscitation: what goals and how to achieve them?

The need to achieve adequate tissue oxygen delivery early in patients with septic shock is well established. However, it is less well recognized that tissue hypoperfusion can exist despite normalization of systemic hemodynamics. Efforts to resuscitate septic patients until adequate tissue perfusion has been achieved can potentially improve outcome. In a multicenter study, 130 patients with sept...

Carolyn Pitceathly them Key communication skills and how to acquire

Back to the future: using aminoglycosides again and how to dose them optimally.

Gram-negative organisms have become increasingly resistant to both beta-lactam antibiotics and fluoroquinolones. Consequently, aminoglycoside antibiotics have undergone a resurgence in use. Because of the known toxicities of aminoglycoside antibiotics, clinicians have avoided their use, unless no other alternatives were extant. Over the past 2 decades, we have learned much about the relationshi...

Quality of oral surgery referrals and how to improve them

Aim To assess the quality of routine oral surgery referrals received at Halmstad Hospital and Växjö Hospital and to emphasize areas for improvement. Method A retrospective study was performed on all routine oral surgery referrals received between 2014 and 2015 at both Halmstad Hospital and Växjö Hospital. A total of 1,891 referral letters were assessed for their quality against a predetermine...

scale-up methodology instruction, the key strategy to achieve industrial scale know-how

the available experiments and reports of executed projects in iranian research centers and universities show that the ability of know-how development of chemical and petrochemical synthesis as well as their required catalyst is existed in laboratory scale. although, know-how development in larger scale is possible, too but no certain scientific and classified method has been explained which is ...