In pediatric open-heart surgery, thrombocytopenia and AKI occur commonly following CPB. Our findings show a strong association between nadir platelet counts and the severity of AKI.
This study investigates whether preparation in business and communication skills in FIDER‐accredited programs influences graduates' employment in the interior design profession. Findings from a 1991 survey of interior design graduates indicate that a focus in the curriculum on intercommunication skills was related to design employment; focus on business skills, however, was not found to be significantly related to employment. When graduates rated their program's degree of focus on business skills as low, they compensated by learning needed skills on the job. Many communication skills were similarly learned on the job. Skills in public speaking and oral presentations learned in the undergraduate curricula were especially transferable into the work field. Several indicators suggest that a transferable knowledge of business skills can best be achieved through early work experience.
Care teams of providers from different countries pose potential challenges with patient safety. Implementation of a colour-coded universal protocol in this setting can prevent and reduce errors that could potentially lead to patient harm.
Service dogs are beneficial in providing assistance to people with multiple types of disabilities and medical disorders including visual impairment, physical disabilities, seizure disorders, diabetes, and mental illness. Some service animals have been trained as a screening tool for cancer. We review a case involving a 6-year-old female with a history of mast cell mediator release and immediate hypersensitivity due to the urticaria pigmentosa variant of cutaneous mastocytosis who underwent a cystourethroscopy. Her service dog, JJ, who would alert to mast cell mediator release, was used throughout the perioperative course as a means of anxiolysis and comfort and to monitor for mast cell mediator release. This case presents an example of a service dog used in a family-care model in the field of anesthesiology and provides a unique example of using a service dog as an additional monitor to alert the care team for impending mast cell mediator release.
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