Clinical and Analytic Accuracy of Simultaneously Acquired Hemoglobin Measurements: A Multi-Institution Cohort Study to Minimize Redundant Laboratory Usage.

Objectives: Frequent diagnostic blood sampling contributes to anemia among critically ill children. Reducing duplicative hemoglobin testing while maintaining clinical accuracy can improve patient care efficacy. The objective of this study was to determine the analytical and clinical accuracy of simultaneously acquired hemoglobin measurements with different methods.

Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Caring for Patients with Cutaneous T Cell Lymphoma.

Cutaneous T cell lymphoma and its subtypes, mycosis fungoides (MF) and Sézary syndrome (SS), comprise a spectrum of chronic lymphoproliferative disorders in which neoplastic T cells accumulate within the skin and visceral organs. This process is frequently characterized by severe pain, nonpain symptoms, and physical disfigurement. Significant emotional, spiritual, and existential distress is also felt by many of these patients as they experience a chronic, often incurable disease.

Distress and the Long-Stay Pediatric Intensive Care Unit Admission: A Longitudinal Study of Parents and the Medical Team.

Prolonged critical illness in children has emotional consequences for both parents and providers. In this observational cohort study, we longitudinally surveyed anxiety and depression in parents and moral distress in pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) providers (attendings, fellows, and bedside registered nurses) and explored their trajectories and relationships. Anxiety/depression and provider moral distress were measured using the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale and the Moral Distress Thermometer, respectively.

The location of the inferior and superior temporal blood vessels and interindividual variability of the retinal nerve fiber layer thickness.

Purpose: To determine if adjusting for blood vessel (BV) location can decrease the intersubject variability of retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) thickness measured with optical coherence tomography (OCT).

Subjects And Methods: One eye of 50 individuals with normal vision was tested with OCT and scanning laser polarimetry (SLP). The SLP and OCT RNFL thickness profiles were determined for a peripapillary circle 3.

Blood vessel contributions to retinal nerve fiber layer thickness profiles measured with optical coherence tomography.

Purpose: To understand better the influence of retinal blood vessels (BVs) on the interindividual variation in the retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) thickness measured with optical coherence tomography (OCT).

Subjects And Methods: RNFL thickness profiles were measured by OCT in 16 control individuals and 16 patients. The patients had advanced glaucoma defined by abnormal disc appearance, abnormal visual fields, and a mean visual field deviation worse than -10 dB.