Emergency Department Information System Education and Training for Clinicians: Lessons Learned.

Of all the potential barriers to a successful Electronic Health Record (EHR) adoption, the importance of training is often underestimated, potentially jeopardizing the implementation. Following best practices recommendations, we designed and implemented a comprehensive EHR training framework. The aim of this poster is to describe our experience with such a framework in the implementation of our home-grown Emergency Department Information System (EDIS), report lessons learned and provide recommendations for other institutions facing EHR adoptions in Chile and Latin America.

[Biomedical informatics].

Biomedical Informatics is a new discipline that arose from the need to incorporate information technologies to the generation, storage, distribution and analysis of information in the domain of biomedical sciences. This discipline comprises basic biomedical informatics, and public health informatics. The development of the discipline in Chile has been modest and most projects have originated from the interest of individual people or institutions, without a systematic and coordinated national development.

Transoral robotic surgery for head and neck cancer: a series of 17 cases.

Objectives: Transoral robotic surgery (TORS) is an innovative surgical technique indicated for resection of selected head and neck cancers. The authors report their experience and discuss the indications, advantages and disadvantages of this technique.

Materials And Methods: Seventeen patients were operated by TORS in the Limoges University Hospital ENT department between March 2010 and January 2011.

Transoral robotic surgery for the treatment of head and neck cancer of various localizations.

Background: Transoral robotic surgery (TORS) is a recent endoscopic technique to resect selected head and neck cancers.

Study Design: In total, 13 patients underwent TORS procedure for resection of head and neck cancers of various localizations, within the ENT Department of Limoges University Hospital Center between March and October 2010.

Results: Tumor localizations were aryepiglottic fold (n = 3), pyriform sinus (n = 2), posterior pharyngeal wall (n = 2), base of tongue (n = 2), lateral pharyngeal wall (n = 2), vallecula (n = 1), and epiglottis (n = 1).

Isolated hypoglossal palsy due to cervical osteophyte.

Introduction: Isolated hypoglossal nerve palsy is rare, and etiological diagnosis is difficult. We report a case of isolated hypoglossal compression by a cervical osteophyte in the hypoglossal canal exit.

Case Study: An 86-year-old woman with history of cervical spondylotic myelopathy consulted for a lesion of the free edge of the tongue with impaired elocution.