The impact of managers' attitudes towards environmental management accounting and green competitive advantage in Vietnam manufacturers.

Environmental management accounting (EMA) has positive support for providing information for green competitive advantage. Based on upper echelons theory (UET), this study examines the impact of upper managers' attitudes towards the environment regarding the choice of green production strategy, EMA implementation, and green competitive advantage (GCA). The moderating role of regulatory pressure (RP) in some relationships is also investigated.

Customer pressure and environmental stewardship: The moderator role of perceived benefit by managers.

Nowadays, environmental issues and cleaner products are interest to many customers, considering whether to buy or continue using a product. This will affect the perception, attitude of upper managers in the process of strategic choices and operational management behavior. This study is based on the Upper Echelon Theory, research under the influence of customer pressure to attitude toward the environmental, decision choices for cleaner production strategies, implementation of environmental management accounting towards achieving green competitive advantage of Vietnamese manufacturing enterprises.

Intraoperative hypotension in noncardiac surgery patients with chronic beta-blocker therapy: A matched cohort analysis.

Study Objective: To explore the incidence of intraoperative hypotension in patients with chronic beta-blocker therapy, expressed as time spent, area and time-weighted average under predefined mean arterial pressure thresholds.

Design: Retrospective analysis of a prospective observational cohort registry.

Setting: Patients ≥60 years undergoing intermediate- to high-risk noncardiac surgery with routine postoperative troponin measurements on the first three days after surgery.

Immediate postoperative high-sensitivity troponin T concentrations and long-term patient-reported health-related quality of life: A prospective cohort study.

Background: Myocardial injury after noncardiac surgery is associated with mortality and major adverse postoperative cardiovascular events. The effect of postoperative troponin concentrations on patient-reported health-related quality of life (HRQoL) is unknown.

Objective: The study examined the association between immediate postoperative troponin concentrations and self-reported HRQoL 1 year after surgery.

Postoperative Hypotension after Noncardiac Surgery and the Association with Myocardial Injury.

Background: Intraoperative hypotension has been associated with postoperative morbidity and early mortality. Postoperative hypotension, however, has been less studied. This study examines postoperative hypotension, hypothesizing that both the degree of hypotension severity and longer durations would be associated with myocardial injury.

Postoperative troponin release is associated with major adverse cardiovascular events in the first year after noncardiac surgery.

Introduction: Troponin elevations after intermediate-to-high risk noncardiac surgery are common and can predict mortality. However, the prognostic value for early and late major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE) is less well investigated. The authors evaluated the relationship between postoperative troponin release and MACE in the first year after noncardiac surgery.

What we can learn from Big Data about factors influencing perioperative outcome.

Purpose Of Review: This narrative review will discuss what value Big Data has to offer anesthesiology and aims to highlight recently published articles of large databases exploring factors influencing perioperative outcome. Additionally, the future perspectives of Big Data and its major pitfalls will be discussed.

Recent Findings: The potential of Big Data has given an incentive to create nationwide and anesthesia-initiated registries like the MPOG and NACOR.

Prognostic value of postoperative high-sensitivity troponin T in patients with different stages of kidney disease undergoing noncardiac surgery.

Background: Emerging evidence suggests that postoperative troponin release is a strong and independent predictor of short-term mortality. However, evaluating elevated troponins in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) is still controversial and is often disregarded. This study examines morbidity along with short- and long-term mortality risk associated with elevated high-sensitivity troponin T (hsTnT) in patients with different stages CKD undergoing noncardiac surgery.

Association between postoperative mean arterial blood pressure and myocardial injury after noncardiac surgery.

Background: Myocardial injury after noncardiac surgery is common, although the exact pathophysiology is unknown. It is plausible that hypotension after surgery is relevant for the development of myocardial injury. The authors evaluated whether low mean arterial pressures (MAPs) after surgery are related to an increased incidence in postoperative cardiac-troponin elevation.

Cone-beam computed tomographic scans in comparison with periapical radiographs for root canal length measurement: an in situ study.

Introduction: The primary aim of this study was to compare the precision of root canal length determination on cone-beam computed tomographic (CBCT) scans and periapical radiographs (PAs) with the actual root canal length. The secondary aim was to examine the influence of tooth type on root canal length measurements as assessed on CBCT scans and PAs.

Methods: In total, 40 root canals of 33 teeth (molars, premolars, canines, and incisors) out of 5 dentate maxillas of human cadavers were included.