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Indian J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg
January 2025
Division of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anaesthesiology, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala India.
Unlabelled: Appearance of a thrombus in the graft intraoperatively during Fontan surgery is not reported and warrants careful evaluation. Our patient was an 18-year-old lady who underwent fenestrated extracardiac Fontan surgery. Intraoperatively, transesophageal echocardiography revealed an echogenic structure inside the conduit.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFClin Ethics
December 2024
Social Research Institute, University College London, London, UK.
Children's autonomy includes, as far as possible, self-determination, bodily integrity and the right to influence outcomes. Limits to bodily integrity, which involves no touching without the child's consent or tacit agreement, are discussed. The clinical, legal and ethics literature tends to agree that children may give valid consent to major recommended treatment from around 12 years but may not refuse it until they are legal adults.
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November 2024
Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery and Palliative Care, King's College London, London, UK.
Background: During the COVID-19 pandemic, virtual visiting technologies were rapidly integrated into the care offered by intensive care units (ICUs) in the UK and across the globe. Today, these technologies offer a necessary adjunct to in-person visits for those with ICU access limited by geography, work/caregiving commitments, or frailty. However, few empirical studies explore the ethical issues associated with virtual visiting.
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November 2024
Department of Sociology, Ibn Haldun University, Istanbul, Turkey.
This study analyzed online public discourse on Twitter (later rebranded as X) during the COVID-19 pandemic to understand key factors associated with vaccine hesitancy by employing deep-learning techniques. Text classification analysis reveals a significant association between attitudes toward vaccination and the unique socio-economic characteristics of US states, such as education, race, income or voting behavior. However, our results indicate that attributing vaccine hesitancy solely to a single social factor is not appropriate.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFExplor Res Clin Soc Pharm
December 2024
School of Pharmacy, University College London, London, UK.
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