The Characteristics of Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy in Cutaneous Melanoma and the Particularities for Elderly Patients-Experience of a Single Clinic.

Background: Melanoma is a malignant tumor that determines approximately 80% of deaths as skin cancer-related. The sentinel lymph node (SLN) represents the first filter of tumor cells toward systemic dissemination. The primary objective was to outline the surgical specifics of the sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) technique, correlate the location of the lymph node with the radiotracer load, and identify the characteristics of older patients.

Identifying the Sentinel Lymph Node in Patients with Cutaneous Melanoma - Preliminary Report of a Private Clinic in Bucharest.

The accuracy of the staging, along with the reproductibility of intraoperative lymph car-tography, and lymph node biopsy in patients with malignant melanoma was unanimously validated in the last decade. This technique allows the discovery of lymph node micrometastses with the help of immunohistochemical methods. The goal of the present study is to present the experience of our clinic in identification and biopsy protocol of the lymph node.

[The experience of paramedical personnel in the cardiopulmonary resuscitation of acute cardiac patients].

The cardiac stop as well as the severe despondency of the respiratory function in the recoverable patients is a major medical urgency which causes the immediate death of the patient if efficient measures of cardiorespiratory resuscitation are not correctly and rapidly taken. The authors describe in detail the measures to be taken in such situations, presenting the experience of the medical and nursing staff in the coronary intensive care unit of the Medical Clinic III, in the Clinical Hospital of Bucharest. It is underlined the fact that due to the nature of their tasks, the nursing staff have an essential contribution within the "team work" of the coronary intensive care units.