Readiness for and predictors of evidence base practice in Greek healthcare settings.

Background: Implementation of evidence-based practice (EBP) remains limited in healthcare settings and knowledge of predictors of healthcare professionals' EBP activities is lacking.

Aim: Describe nurses' readiness for EBP and identify related predictors in Greek healthcare settings we conducted a survey.

Results: Nurses scored high in the EBP readiness scale reflecting significant positive readiness toward EBP and consistently reported favourable attitudes toward and beliefs about EBP.

Frailty predicts outcome of elective laparoscopic cholecystectomy in geriatric patients.

Background: Frailty is a phenotype characterized by complex and challenging medical problems and higher susceptibility to adverse health outcomes. It can be derived at by a multidimensional process known as comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA), which assesses the functional reserves of the elderly. In this study we report for the first time on a prospective evaluation of the association between CGA and postoperative complications after elective laparoscopic cholecystectomy for biliary disease.

Coil embolization of inferior epigastric artery pseudoaneurysm after percutaneous thrombin injection failure: a case report.

We report a case of a 71-year old woman with right inferior epigastric artery pseudoaneurysm following laceration by a computed tomography-guided 18G biopsy needle. The laceration was initially treated with placement of retained sutures; however the patient turned hemodynamically unstable 41 days later. Percutaneous ultrasound-guided injection of 1500 U of thrombin solution resulted in almost complete thrombosis of the pseudoaneurysm; however 24 hour control ultrasound revealed refilling of the pseudoaneurysm.