Transfusion requirements and outcomes in patients undergoing abdominal aortic surgery using intra-operative cell salvage.

Background: Intraoperative cell salvage (ICS) is the recovery, anticoagulation, filtration and reinfusion of blood lost during surgery. The aim of this study is to determine the safety and efficacy of ICS in emergency and elective abdominal aortic surgery.

Methods: This study reviews volumes of blood loss, blood salvaged with ICS, allogenic blood requirements, and clinical outcomes in patients undergoing abdominal aortic surgery using ICS.

Five cases of Plasmodium falciparum malaria in active duty Navy personnel participating in Operation Assured Response.

During Operation Assured Response in Liberia and Sierra Leone, between May and July 1996, five confirmed cases of falciparum malaria occurred in U.S. Navy personnel.

Syphilis and neurosyphilis in a human immunodeficiency virus type-1 seropositive population: evidence for frequent serologic relapse after therapy.

Objective: To describe clinical and treatment aspects of syphilis infection among patients seropositive for the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).

Patients And Methods: Results of serologic tests for syphilis, CD4+ T-lymphocyte counts, and clinical response to therapy were retrospectively monitored in 100 HIV-infected adults with syphilis from a tertiary-care military HIV program.

Results: Of the 1,206 HIV-infected patients, 100 (8.

Airbag deployments: the Canadian experience.

Transport Canada is undertaking an in-depth study of motor vehicle collisions involving airbag deployments. University-based collision investigation teams across Canada are used to collect crash data. The primary objective of the study is to gain a better understanding of the injuries and the injury mechanisms associated with airbag deployments among both restrained and unrestrained occupants.

Brain tumors in children: long-term survival after radiation treatment.

Purpose: To determine the cause of death in children who survive more than 5 years after radiation treatment of a brain tumor.

Methods And Material: Nine hundred and twelve consecutive children with a primary brain tumor irradiated at the Princess Margaret Hospital or Toronto-Bayview Regional Cancer Center from 1958 to 1991, were evaluated for long-term outcome.

Results: Overall 10- and 20-year survival rates were 44% and 37%.