UNLABELLED Neurologic injury associated with regional anesthetic or pain medicine procedures is extremely rare. The Second American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine Practice Advisory on Neurologic Complications Associated With Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine focuses on those complications associated with mechanical, ischemic, or neurotoxic injury of the neuraxis or periphe...

Guide DISCLOSURE APPENDIX This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME). The AANEM is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians. It is the policy of the AANEM to ensure balance, independence, objectivity and scientific rigor i...

Each school of the univru:sity picked representatives for a 10 member faculty advisory committee to the trustee search ·committee. This method of forming the faculty advisory committee is more democratic than simply placing the senate faculty members on the committee, Percival Perry, dean of the summer session .and professor of history, Perry said. replaced associate professor of biology Ron Di...

BACKGROUND Tanzania, like other African countries, faces significant health workforce shortages. With advisory and partnership from Columbia University, the Ifakara Health Institute and the Tanzanian Training Centre for International Health (TTCIH) developed and implemented the Connect Project as a randomized cluster experimental trial of the childhood survival impact of recruiting, training, a...

In Norway there are some 30,000 people with rare hereditary or congenital disorders. For many rare disorders, the needs they have can be a challenge for both the patient, the family and for the service providers. As a user of long-term, coordinated health and/or social services in Norway, you are entitled to an Individual Plan (IP). The right to an IP is not conditional on a particular diagnosi...

INTRODUCTION The use of marginal or extended criteria donor livers is increasing. These organs carry a greater risk of initial dysfunction and early failure, as well as inferior long-term outcomes. As such, many are rejected due to a perceived risk of use and use varies widely between centres. Ex situ normothermic machine perfusion of the liver (NMP-L) may enable the safe transplantation of org...

BACKGROUND Processing personal data for research purposes and the requirement of anonymity has been the subject of recent debate. We aimed to determine the proportion of individuals who present to emergency departments with non-fatal suicidal behavior where an NHS number has been successfully traced and to investigate the characteristics of patients associated with non-capture. METHOD This wa...

The Norwegian Biotechnology Advisory Board is an independent body appointed by the Norwegian government and was established in 1991. The Board is founded in the Act relating to the application of biotechnology in medicine and the Act relating to the production and use of genetically modifi ed organisms. The main tasks of the Norwegian Biotechnology Advisory Board are to identify and examine the...