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The literature was reviewed in order to find clinical-epidemiological and physiological evidence for which surgical techniques should be preferred when performing Caesarean section. We found reasonable evidence for the following procedure: spontaneous placenta detachment, uterine repair in one layer and non-closure of the peritoneum.
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Cesarean Section/methods , Evidence-Based Medicine , Female , Humans , PregnancyABSTRACT
Tympanic measurement of body temperature with FirstTemp tympanic thermometer was compared with mercury rectal thermometers in 155 adult patients in a department of abdominal surgery. The tympanic thermometer did not correlate well with the mercury rectal thermometer with a correlation coefficient of 0.70. The median rectal temperature differed from the median tympanic temperature by 0.34 degree C, a factor which could be corrected by changing the temperature shown on the display from the "oral" mode into the 0.40 degree C higher rectal "mode". Care should be taken not to measure the temperature in an ear, on which the patient has been lying recently.
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Body Temperature , Thermometers , Tympanic Membrane , Adult , Aged , Denmark , Gastrointestinal Diseases/surgery , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Prospective Studies , Rectum , Surgery Department, Hospital , Thermometers/standardsABSTRACT
A case of contralateral testicular cancer in an 80-year-old man 40 years after his first testicular cancer is reported. The importance of taking testis biopsies from men at risk of getting a testicular cancer is discussed, especially regarding the detection of carcinoma-in-situ.
