Monthly Prescribing Reference

Peritoneal Drainage, Laparotomy Cuts Mortality in NEC

(HealthDay News) — For infants with necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC), peritoneal drainage followed by laparotomy is associated with reduced mortality but increased costs compared with peritoneal ...
National Institute for Health and Care Excellence

PeritX peritoneal catheter drainage system for vacuum-assisted drainage of treatment-resistant, recurrent malignant ascites

We have moved medical technologies guidance 9 to become HealthTech guidance 282. This is to better reflect the NICE HealthTech programme which combines the former NICE Diagnostics Assessment programme ...
ascopubs.org

Value of peritoneal drain placement after total gastrectomy for gastric adenocarcinoma: A multi-institutional analysis from the U.S. Gastric Cancer Collaborative.

Preoperative imatinib for locally advanced gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST): CONVERT trial. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2015 Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium. This abstract does ...
National Institute for Health and Care Excellence

Tunnelled peritoneal drainage catheter insertion for refractory ascites in cirrhosis

You should read both the consultation document and the accompanying evidence (see the committee papers) before making any comments. We have a new way of making ...
The New England Journal of Medicine

Peritoneal Dialysis

As blood in the peritoneal capillaries comes into contact with dialysate in the peritoneal cavity, solutes in the blood diffuse into the dialysate. The osmotic gradient created by glucose in the ...