• Lung and heart-lung transplantation is one of the most rapidly evolving transplantation
fields. Survival has been improving with better patient selection, better graft preservation, and …

General clinical scoring systems are relatively recently developed statistical tools available to
clinicians for purposes including comparison of outcome data, evaluation of new therapies, …

Ethical principles are the foundation of the practice of medicine. The intensive care unit (ICU)
has always been a fertile ground for ethical dilemmas and today is further impacted by …

We report a patient who received a right single lung transplant (SLT) for progressive
lymphangioleiomyomatosis and required reintubation for postoperative respiratory distress. She …

Fluid mixing operations are central to possibly all chemical, petrochemical, and pharmaceutical
industries either being related to biphasic blending in polymerisation processes, cell …

… Natalya Baldyga traces the legacy of Gozzi’s “pastiche” of familiar and fantastical elements, …
For more on Gozzi and German Romanticism, see Natalya Baldyga’s chapter in this book (…

The national discussion concerning decision making for incompetent patients began with
the 1976 case of Karen Ann Quinlan. Because she had been left in a persistent vegetative …

The prevalence of inappropriate care, defined as actions contrary to personal and professional
beliefs, is high. This is a reflection of the reluctance of the society at large to acknowledge …

The flow in a standard configuration stirred vessel stirred by a Rushton turbine was studied
with laser Doppler anemometry (LDA), particle image velocimetry (PIV) and computational …

RICHARD F. ABORN LOUIS MARIO ACCORNERO ROBERT HENRY ASHMAN THOMAS
ALLEN BEAUREGARD KENNETH M BUELL BRUCE ALAN CAMPBELL RICHARD EUGENE …