A longitudinal interprofessional simulation curriculum for critical care teams: Exploring successes and challenges.

Interprofessional care teams are the backbone of intensive care units (ICUs) where severity of illness is high and care requires varied skills and experience. Despite this care model, longitudinal educational programmes for such workplace teams rarely include all professions. In this article, we report findings on the initial assessment and evaluation of an ongoing, longitudinal simulation-based curriculum for interprofessional workplace critical care teams.

Thoracic tumor effects on plasmatic coagulation: role of hemeoxygenase-1.

Objectives: Lung cancer is an important health threat worldwide, and is associated with a 3.8-13.9% incidence of thrombophilia.

Hemeoxygenase-1 mediated hypercoagulability in a patient with thyroid cancer.

Thyroid cancers can cause significant regional thrombotic morbidity and mortality. Of interest, thyroid cancer cell lines can have upregulation of the carbon monoxide-producing enzyme, hemeoxygenase-1. Carbon monoxide has been demonstrated to markedly enhance plasmatic coagulation in vitro and in vivo via enhancement of fibrinogen's substrate properties by binding to a fibrinogen-associated heme group(s).

Anterior cruciate ligament-injured subjects have smaller anterior cruciate ligaments than matched controls: a magnetic resonance imaging study.

Background: Very few studies examining the predisposing anatomical factors leading to anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries have examined the ACL itself, and none of these directly examined the difference in ACL properties between injured and matched control subjects.

Hypothesis: The ACL total volume in people who have experienced a noncontact ACL injury is smaller than that of matched controls.

Study Design: Case control study; Level of evidence, 3.

Trabecular shear stress amplification and variability in human vertebral cancellous bone: relationship with age, gender, spine level and trabecular architecture.

Trabecular shear stress magnitude and variability have been implicated in damage formation and reduced bone strength associated with bone loss for human vertebral bone. This study addresses the issue of whether these parameters change with age, gender or anatomical location, and if so whether this is independent of bone mass. Additionally, 3D-stereology-based architectural parameters were examined in order to establish the relationship between stress distribution parameters and trabecular architecture.