Assessing decision-making in education of restorative and prosthetic dentistry: a pilot study.

Purpose: To evaluate whether a concordance assessment (CA) software application is able to assess decision-making in restorative and prosthetic dentistry.

Materials And Methods: Vignettes representing 10 different clinical situations were integrated into a software application. Each vignette included 3D digital models and a short case, as well as 5 therapeutic options rated on a 4-point Likert scale (-2 = strongly contraindicated; -1 = contraindicated; +1 = indicated; +2 = strongly indicated).

Continuous controlled-infusion of hypertonic saline solution in traumatic brain-injured patients: a 9-year retrospective study.

Introduction: Description of a continuous hypertonic saline solution (HSS) infusion using a dose-adaptation of natremia in traumatic brain injured (TBI) patients with refractory intracranial hypertension (ICH).

Methods: We performed a single-center retrospective study in a surgical intensive care unit of a tertiary hospital. Fifty consecutive TBI patients with refractory ICH treated with continuous HSS infusion adapted to a target of natremia.

[Opinion of different professional categories about the intensity of procedural pain in adult intensive care units].

Objectives: to assess the procedures considered as the most painful by health personnel of two adult critical care units.

Methods: individual written survey with a questionnaire about 46 potentially painful procedures. Each individual has to estimate the pain intensity as well as the frequency of performance for each painful procedures.

Retrospective analysis of the risk factors and pathogens associated with early-onset ventilator-associated pneumonia in surgical-ICU head-trauma patients.

Background: Early-onset ventilator associated pneumonia (EOVAP) are frequent in head-trauma patients, but specific risk factors are poorly studied in this population.

Methods: We conducted a retrospective cohort study in a surgical intensive care unit. Consecutive severe head-trauma patients admitted from January 2000 to December 2002 were studied.

Paradoxical air embolism from patent foramen ovale in scoliosis surgery.

Study Design: A case was reported in which paradoxical air embolism arose from the patent foramen ovale in scoliosis surgery.

Objectives: To present a case of suspected paradoxical air embolism after scoliosis surgery.

Summary Of Background Data: Embolic accident during scoliosis surgery may be caused by air, thrombus, or fat.