Selected medical errors in the intensive care unit: results of the IATROREF study: parts I and II.

Rationale: Although intensive care units (ICUs) were created for patients with life-threatening illnesses, the ICU environment generates a high risk of iatrogenic events. Identifying medical errors (MEs) that serve as indicators for iatrogenic risk is crucial for purposes of reporting and prevention.

Objectives: We describe the selection of indicator MEs, the incidence of such MEs, and their relationship with mortality.

Antioxidant defences and oxidative stress markers in erythrocytes and plasma from normally nourished elderly Alzheimer patients.

Objectives: to investigate blood markers of oxidative stress, and enzymatic and non-enzymatic antioxidants in normally nourished elderly people with Alzheimer's disease.

Design: case-control study.

Subjects: twenty patients with Alzheimer's disease and 23 elderly control subjects, living at home, free from disease and not undergoing any treatment known to have a strong influence on blood oxidative stress markers or antioxidant defence systems.

Prospective audits of quality of PEM recognition and nutritional support in critically ill elderly patients.

Background And Aims: Undereating is a frequent concern in acute care geriatric settings and is supposed to worsen the outcomes of the underlying diseases, while the quality of nutritional support could be improved.

Methods: Two consecutive and prospective audits (A and B) with team training over a 1 year period investigated the quality of malnutrition recognition and nutritional support and outcomes in immobilized, critically ill elderly subjects.

Results: Audit A included 170 patients (86.

[Reverse endarterectomy of the internal carotid].

We have described an original technique of eversion carotid endarterectomy which has been performed in two series of patients. In the first series the patients were operated on in Angers. They were 65 carotid stenosis in 56 patients with a mean follow-up of 27 months (18-36 months).