Publications by authors named "Christos Paschalides"
Article Synopsis
- The study aimed to assess the effectiveness of CoSeal® surgical sealant in reducing prolonged alveolar air leaks after lung surgeries.
- It involved 121 patients who had an air leak during surgery, with half receiving standard care and the other half receiving standard care plus CoSeal®.
- The results showed that while some patients initially stopped leaking, overall, those treated with CoSeal® experienced longer air leak durations, leading researchers to conclude that the sealant should not be routinely used.
Objective: To assess the feasibility and acceptability of obtaining data on prescribing error rates in routine practice, and presenting feedback on such errors to medical staff.
Setting: One clinical directorate of a London teaching trust.
Methods: Ward pharmacists recorded all prescribing errors identified in newly written medication orders on one day each fortnight between February and May 2005.
We sought to establish the extent to which tumour uptake of [18F]-fluoro2-deoxy-glucose is associated with survival in patients with primary lung cancer. From our analysis of data concerning 498 lung cancer patients, including surgical and non-surgical cases, we conclude that there is a clear association between higher tumour uptake of glucose and worse survival.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFaced with the problem of giving individualised advice about adjuvant chemotherapy to patients who have had an apparently curative lung cancer resection, we propose a model to help clarify the choices being made. This would inform the clinician, help the patient and be an explicit basis on which to initiate the discussion.
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