The sequential effect of absorptive capacity, strategic agility, and sustainable competitive advantage on sustainable business performance of SMEs.

A company's environmental sensitivity primarily depends on its sustainability. Hence, investigating the factors that affect sustainable business performance contributes to the literature on the environment. Based on a resource-based view, dynamic capabilities, and contingency theory, this study examines the sequential relationships between the absorptive capacity, strategic agility, sustainable competitive advantage, and sustainable business performance of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), as well as the mediating role of sustainable competitive advantage in the relationship between strategic agility and sustainable business performance.

Prognostic value of Intermountain Risk Score for short- and long-term mortality in patients with cardiogenic shock.

Background: There is a lack of current research examining the predictive value of the Intermountain Risk Score (IMRS) in patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) caused by cardiogenic shock. Therefore, the purpose of this research was to investigate the ability of IMRS to predict short- and long-term mortality in patients with cardiogenic shock triggered by STEMI.

Methods: The participants included 492 consecutive cardiogenic shock patients who underwent primary percutaneous coronary intervention following STEMI.

Body stalk anomaly in a monochorionic-diamniotic twin pregnancy - case report and review of the literature.

Body stalk anomaly (BSA) is a rare abdominal defect, generally considered to be lethal. Reported prevalence ranges from 0.4 to 3.

Cervical cerclage in advanced prolapsed fetal membranes - Case presentation.

The case presentation of a transvaginal cervical cerclage performed at a 7 cm dilation in a patient in the 22nd week of pregnancy, followed by a prolongation of the pregnancy until the gestational age of 38 weeks, was reported in the context of many similar cases managed by the authors of the article during a program of screening and prevention of preterm birth. The particularity of the case was the lack of a preterm birth in the medical history of the patient and the installation of the isthmus-cervix incompetence in the second pregnancy, after an on term pregnancy. What should be evidenced is the importance transvaginal cervical ultrasound evaluation has in the early diagnosis of this pathology during pregnancy, this being the only method of determining the efficacy of the content of the internal cervical os.

Cornual Heterotopic Pregnancy - a Rare Cause for Haemorrhagic Shock.

Heterotopic pregnancy represents an intrauterine gestational sac in the presence of an ectopic pregnancy. It is a very rare occurrence in spontaneous pregnancy but its incidence has increased with the use of assisted reproductive techniques, being identified in up to 1% of these cases. There aren't any guidelines regarding the management of heterotopic pregnancies, but the general principles include: elimination of the ectopic pregnancy, conservation of the intrauterine pregnancy and haemostasis.