Interprofessional simulation-based team-training and self-efficacy in emergency medicine situations.

Teamwork quality has been shown to influence patient safety, and simulation-based team-training (SBTT) is an effective means to increase this quality. However, long-term effects are rarely studied. This study aims to investigate the long-term effects of interprofessional SBTT in emergency medicine in terms of global confidence, self-efficacy in interprofessional communication and in emergency medicine situations.

Lateral sinus thrombosis: diagnosis and treatment--a case report.

Lateral sinus thrombosis is a difficult diagnostic problem. Specialized computerized tomography allows non-invasive preoperative visualization of sinus contents enabling the surgeon to make a definitive diagnosis with appropriate preoperative planning. This case report details these specialized techniques and their application to a case of lateral sinus thrombosis.

[Transthoracal and abdominothoracal radical operation for esophageal and cardiac carcinoma. Early results (author's transl)].

With reference to the frequency of esophageal and cardial carcinoma in the local patients of the Taj Institute for Cancer Research in Teheran, the early results following transthoracal-transdiaphragmatic (30 cases) and abdomino-right thoracal (30 cases) radical operations are compared and clinical and radiological criteria given which, from experience, indicate inoperability. In the first series postoperative mortality was 20%, in the second 10%. Non-fatal anastomosis dehiscences were five times more frequent in the first series than in the second.