Coordinated computer reporting of microbiology data in the clinical laboratory.

The details of incorporating microbiology results into a single computerized report that also includes all other laboratory results for each patient in the hospital are described. Including the microbiology results in this way allows provision of a consolidated flow sheet of all laboratory work on each chart, replacing the myriad single-sheet reports so common to manual systems. The results are tabulated, and are easily read by clinicians after some experience.

Observations of carbon dioxide laser and bone bur in the osteotomy of the rabbit tibia.

The tissue responses of a rabbit tibia to superpulse laser osteotomy, continuous-wave laser osteotomy, and bur osteotomy were compared. Healing of the bone occurred after use of all three modalities, but there was a delay in healing after laser osteotomy when compared with bur osteotomy. Laser osteotomy is feasible, but improvements will be needed to make such bone cutting as efficient and controllable as the rotating bur.