A reproducible porcine ePTFE arterial bypass model for neointimal hyperplasia.

Background: Late failure of prosthetic vascular bypass grafting using expanded polytetrafluoroethylene (ePTFE) is secondary to the development of neointimal hyperplasia, most commonly at the distal anastomosis. To develop therapies that can improve upon current prosthetic vascular bypass grafting, a large animal model of prosthetic bypass grafting that results in reproducible neointimal hyperplasia is necessary.

Methods: We performed bilateral end-to-side carotid artery bypasses with 6 mm ePTFE in a porcine model (n = 11).

Triadic communication in the primary care paediatric consultation: a review of the literature.

Background: Children aged 6-12 years are usually seen in primary care with an adult carer. It is a government and professional priority for doctors to try and involve these children in their medical consultations.

Aim: To ascertain the evidence available on the amount and type of involvement that children in the 6-12 year age group have in their primary care consultations when the consultation was held with a child, a GP, and an adult.

Video analysis of communication in paediatric consultations in primary care.

Background: There is a paucity of research evidence concerning communication in paediatric consultations between GPs, adults, and child patients.

Aim: This study was carried out to identify features of the interaction between a doctor, a child patient aged 6-12 years, and their carer in the consultation associated with the child's participation.

Design Of Study: A qualitative analysis of video recordings of 31 primary care paediatric consultations was undertaken, using strategies from the methodology of conversation analysis.

Telling the community benefit story. We must remind our neighbors that we do much more than provide acute care.

The nation's not-for-profit voluntary hospitals--Catholic organizations among them--provide much more than acute, outpatient, and long-term care. They also provide a variety of services-including clinics for the uninsured, parish nurse programs, in-school programs for children--that reach out to people who are poor, vulnerable, and neglected. Unfortunately, this fact has not been communicated well.