Is "Raw" or "Cooked" a Useful Analytic Tool?

Prescribing premedication for children before surgery is a tool for research or implementation

 Surgery and anesthesia entail significant mental stress for children and their parents, the result of which remains long after the hospital experience, and even in some cases, phobia, anxiety, hysteria or nightly nightmares, and it also appears negatively. According to studies, while in many cases, nothing can take the place of the support and cuddle of the child’s parents, but this support is...

Is intravascular ultrasound clinically useful or is it just a research tool?

Coronary angiography has been the gold standard for assessing coronary artery disease and guiding interventions. Because of its reproducibility, quantitative angiography (QCA) has introduced objectivity and consistency into clinical trials. However, angiography is only a lumenogram. Therefore, it has two major limitations: atherosclerosis is a disease of the arterial wall compromising the lumen...

Raw versus cooked vegetables and cancer risk.

This review of the medical literature from 1994 to 2003 summarizes the relationship between raw and cooked vegetables and cancer risk and examines whether they may affect cancer risk differently. Twenty-eight studies examined the relationship between raw and cooked vegetables and risk for various cancers. Twenty-one studies assessed raw, but not cooked, vegetables and cancer risk. The majority ...

The Critical-Care Pain Observation Tool: A useful tool for pain assessment in intensive care units

Pain is a major concern in all intensive care units (ICUs). The proper assessment and management of pain is one of the main goals of patient care in ICUs. Improper evaluation of pain and its over or under treatment can cause significant problems in the process of patient management in ICU. Since most ICU patients are unable to communicate correctly with the ICU team and explain their level of p...

Brain mapping--a useful tool or a dangerous toy?