Development of a decision tree for the pharmacy-led consultation of elderly patients with haematological malignancies.

Introduction: Elderly patients with haematological malignancies are a population at risk of iatrogenic for whom these activities could optimize therapeutic management. However, the limitation of human resources requires optimization of the process in order to improve the efficiency of pharmaceutical activities. The objective was to build a decision tree to optimize the pharmaceutical consultation in these population within a multidisciplinary team in haematology.

Advance directives from haematology departments: the patient's freedom of choice and communication with families. A qualitative analysis of 35 written documents.

Background: In France, advance directives are favourably perceived by most of the population, although the drafting rate is low. This ambivalence is challenging because advance directives are meant to promote the autonomy and freedom of choice of patients. The purpose of this study was to analyse the content of advance directives written by patients suffering from malignant haemopathies to better understand how patients put them into practice.

Polypharmacy, potentially inappropriate medications and drug-drug interactions in geriatric patients with hematologic malignancy: Observational single-center study of 122 patients.

Objectives: Geriatric patients with hematologic malignancies (HMs) are prescribed targeted and supportive care treatments that add to the preexisting polypharmacy (PP). PP is associated with an increased risk of potentially inappropriate medications (PIM) and drug-drug interactions (DDI) resulting in increased hospitalization and mortality in the elderly. As very few data exist on these medication issues in the context of HMs, the objective of this study was to evaluate prevalence of PP, DDI and PIM use at baseline and 3months among elderly patients with HMs who received baseline geriatric assessment.

Cooperative surveillance and pursuit using unmanned aerial vehicles and unattended ground sensors.

This paper considers the problem of path planning for a team of unmanned aerial vehicles performing surveillance near a friendly base. The unmanned aerial vehicles do not possess sensors with automated target recognition capability and, thus, rely on communicating with unattended ground sensors placed on roads to detect and image potential intruders. The problem is motivated by persistent intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance and base defense missions.

[Catheterization of the cerebral ventricles by the rostral method in cattle].

A new means of access to the encephalic ventricles in the cow has been proposed, consisting of the catheterization of the olfactory recess, situated approximately 25 mm under the skin in the frontal region, vertically from a point situated 15 mm laterally from the median plane at the level of a line drawn between the lateral angles of the eyes. Radiographs show that a radioopaque medium can be diffused throughout the cavities on both sides.

Access to the encephalic ventricles in the Friesian cow: a new surgical approach.

The surgical procedure described in this communication consists in the catheterisation of the ventricular recess within the olfactory bulb. It lies 28 +/- 5 mm under the frontal skin, in a retro-orbital position, and 15 +/- 2 mm from the median plane. Its access is easy in experimental conditions.

Cerebral ventricles of the Friesian cow (Bos taurus L.). Conformation, relations and stereotaxic topography.

Six heifers, aged 8-10 months, and 4 cows, aged 4-12 years, were used for studying the conformation of the cerebral ventricles on mouldings, and the topography on scanographs and frozen cuts. The morphologic changes with age concern the height of the 3rd ventricle, the extension of the pellucid septum and the stereotaxic topography. The stress is put on the variability of the volume of the lateral ventricles and the permanence of a vast and patent recessus olfactorius, with easy external landmarks.