Conflict styles in a cohort of graduate medical education administrators, residents, and board-certified physicians.

Objective: To assess conflict styles and construct validity of the Thomas-Kilmann Mode of Conflict Instrument (TKI) among medical education personnel.

Methods: From 2006 to 2009, 23 board-certified physicians (faculty), 46 residents, and 31 graduate medical education (GME) administrators participated in 3 behavior surveys. We used self-reported data (as completed by participants on the questionnaire).

Measurements of electromagnetic fields radiated from communication equipment and of environmental electromagnetic noise: impact on the use of communication equipment within the hospital.

The increasing use of all types of cellular telephones requires the formulation of new standards to ensure the immunity of electronic medical equipment to electromagnetic radiation. It will be many years before all hospital medical equipment conforms to new and higher standards. Until that time, the medical, security, maintenance, and other staff will need to be ever vigilant regarding restrictions on the use of wireless equipment within the hospital, to prevent potential danger to the lives of the patients.

[Cellular phone interference with medical instruments].

Cellular telephones and other telecommunication equipment occasionally cause malfunctioning of medical equipment, including life-support equipment. We review such malfunctioning and relate it to Israeli and Worldwide standards, analyzing the characteristics of the interference in terms of amplitude and frequency. The results of a controlled study of interference by cellular telephones and portable 2-way radios with medical devices in our clinical departments are also presented.

Irradiation induced blood flow changes in the breast during radiotherapy--a pilot study.

Skin blood flow and underskin temperature were measured in breasts during the complementary radiotherapy following lumpectomy, using the noninvasive transient thermal clearance method. On average, blood flow and tissue temperature increased at the start of the irradiation then slightly decreased. The response varied significantly among the patients.