Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine
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Arch. Pathol. Lab. Med. · Jun 2000
Comment Letter Case ReportsComplex vascular lesions at autopsy in a patient with phentermine-fenfluramin.
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Guiding the decision to transfuse can improve transfusion practices. Effective processes must first identify problem(s) in transfusion practice and then include the attending physician as an educational target. Process improvements that have been shown to be effective include the following: (1) briefly meeting one-on-one with physicians, (2) teaching at scheduled conferences, (3) making daily clinical rounds of patients who receive transfusion, (4) concurrently reviewing orders for transfusion before issue of the blood product, and (5) installing algorithms and guidelines in the operating room. Transfusion practices improved with these process improvements.
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Arch. Pathol. Lab. Med. · Oct 1998
Multicenter Study Clinical Trial Controlled Clinical TrialEarly morning blood collections: A College of American Pathologists Q-Probes study of 657 institutions.
To determine specimen collection and report times, and delivery, analytic, and total turnaround times (TAT) for routine early morning blood collections. ⋯ Factors shown to correlate with shorter total turnaround times were rural locations, a lower collections to full-time equivalent ratio, intensive care unit specimens, plasma for potassium measurements, the practice of delivering each specimen as it is collected, pneumatic tube delivery system, direct delivery route, and continuous versus batch testing.
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Arch. Pathol. Lab. Med. · Aug 1998
The neuropathology of orthotopic liver transplantation: an autopsy series of 16 patients.
To examine the neuropathologic findings seen in the setting of orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT) and to asses the role, if any, that the neuropathology had in the patient's death. ⋯ The most common neuropathology findings in this series were related to ischemia and infarction. Neuropathology findings are a significant cause of morbidity, but were only rarely the main cause of death (n = 2) in the OLT patients in this study.