An audit of implant practice websites: content and regulatory compliance.

Aims And Objectives: To audit the content of dental practice websites offering dental implant services against a framework based on the GDC 2012 Guidelines for Ethical Advertising and other relevant advertising standards.

Methods: An audit framework was constructed and applied to the top fifty websites resulting from a Google UK search using the search term 'dental implant specialist'.

Results: Compliance with many elements of the GDC Guidance remains poor.

The incidence of artery puncture with central venous cannulation using a modified technique for detection and prevention of arterial cannulation.

Background: Cannulation of the central circulation is essential for management of patients who require major surgery, and for patients who are critically ill. Arterial puncture is the most frequent complication associated with central venous cannulation, and is potentially fatal. Detection of arterial puncture can be problematic, especially in patients with cyanotic congenital heart disease.

Right ventricular outflow construction for complex congenital cardiac malformations without cardiopulmonary bypass: management and outcome of 44 patients.

A review of surgical and anesthetic techniques used in 44 consecutive patients to establish continuity between the right ventricle and pulmonary circulation, without extracorporeal circulation, as a first-stage repair in a variety of selected complex congenital cardiac lesions with right ventricular outflow obstruction, is presented. The overall operative mortality rate was 9% (four deaths), but no deaths occurred in the last 24 patients. Eleven patients (27.

A comparison of washed red blood cells versus packed red blood cells (AS-1) for cardiopulmonary bypass prime and their effects on blood glucose concentration in children.

The effects on blood glucose concentrations of packed red blood cells (AS-1) (group I) versus washed red blood cells (group II) for cardiopulmonary bypass prime were compared in 20 infants weighing less than 10 kg undergoing cardiac surgical procedures. All patients were anesthetized with N2O/O2/isoflurane/fentanyl and received lactated Ringer's solution prior to bypass. Blood glucose concentrations prior to bypass were 85 +/- 15 mg/dl (mean +/- SD) in group I and 81 +/- 14 mg/dl in group II.