Expedited organ donation in Victoria, Australia: donor characteristics and donation outcomes.

Deceased organ donation work-up typically takes 24 hours or more. Clinicians may thus discount the possibility of donation when the potential donor is physiologically unstable or family requirements do not allow this length of time. This may lead to loss of transplantable organs.

A comparison of therapeutic hypothermia and strict therapeutic normothermia after cardiac arrest.

Background And Aims: In a recent high-quality randomised controlled trial (RCT), strict therapeutic normothermia (STN) following cardiac arrest with coma resulted in similar outcomes to therapeutic hypothermia (TH). We aimed to test the feasibility, reproducibility, and safety of the STN protocol outside of its RCT context.

Methods: In two teaching hospital ICUs, we performed a before-and-after study comparing the previously International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation (ILCOR)-endorsed TH protocol to the recently studied STN protocol.

Comparison of pseudophakic dysphotopsia with Akreos Adapt and SN60-AT intraocular lenses.

Purpose: To determine the relative incidence of unwanted light images with the AcrySof SN60-AT intraocular lens (IOL) (Alcon) and the Akreos Adapt (Bausch & Lomb) IOL.

Setting: The Eye Clinic, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Nedlands, Australia.

Methods: In a prospective randomized study of 61 patients who had cataract surgery, the relative incidence of unwanted light images with 2 biconvex acrylic double square-edged IOLs, the SN60-AT and Akreos Adapt, was compared.