Postoperative Morbidity and Mortality of Perforated Peptic Ulcer: Retrospective Cohort Study of Risk Factors among Black Africans in Côte d'Ivoire.

Introduction. Surgical treatment of perforated peptic ulcer (PPU) is a challenge for surgeons in Africa. Aim.

[Validation of the french translated Richmond vigilance-agitation scale].

Objective: To test reliability of the Richmond Agitation Sedation Scale (RASS) after French translation.

Study Design: Prospective psychomotor evaluation study.

Patients And Methods: Two bilingual physicians performed the translation from English to French language.

Iatrogenic cerebral air embolism: importance of an early hyperbaric oxygenation.

Objectives: To assess the relationship between the time period before hyperbaric oxygenation therapy (HBO) and clinical outcome in patients with iatrogenic cerebral air embolism.

Design And Setting: Retrospective study in a hyperbaric chamber and medical intensive care unit of a university hospital.

Patients: All patients with air embolism from 1980 to 1999.