Medicina, Volume 46, Issue 9

The objective was to describe the research methods and research focuses on ethical dilemmas concerning decision-making within health care leadership.

Material and methods. The search was conducted on Medline and PubMed databases (1998–2008). The syst...

Despite advances in cardiac arrest care, the overall survival to hospital discharge remains poor. The objective of this paper was to review the innovations in cardiopulmonary resuscitation that could influence survival or change our understanding abo...

Will, purpose, and volition have long been viewed as either causes of behavior or of no direct consequence to behavior. In this essay, volition affects a flexible direct coupling of participant to task, modulating the degrees of freedom for kinematic...

The objective of the study was to evaluate the relationship between high-grade intraepithelial neoplasia diagnosed after radical retropubic prostatectomy and the clinical and pathological characteristics of prostate cancer, and to evaluate the time t...

Objective. To analyze the need for referral to a specialist and to identify the reasons of referrals among Lithuanian general dental practitioners.

Material and methods. Questionnaires were sent to all 2879 Lithuanian dental practitioners registered...

Background. Since the implementation of the cervical cancer screening program in Lithuania in 2004, cervical cancer incidence rates have stabilized during a 4-year period: in 2006 and 2007, 508 and 485 new cases, respectively, were diagnosed. Human p...

Birth trauma, but not postnatal trauma, has been recognized as a cause of cerebral infarction in newborns. We report a case of cerebral infarction in a 27-day-old girl after a car accident. During the car accident, the child was properly restrained t...

The aim of this study was to assess the relationship among colleagues’ harassment, emotional exhaustion, and sickness absence with a sample of teachers.

Material and methods. The sample consisted of 351 teachers from 8 secondary schools in Kaunas. In...

The objective of this study was to determine the association between parental cigarette smoking and the risk of congenital heart septal defects in Kaunas infant population in 1995–2005.

Material and methods. An epidemiological case-control study was...

Though heart failure can mainly be caused by systolic or diastolic dysfunction, the impairments of the neurohormonal, immune, and hemostatic systems are observed too. Therefore, it is not easy to determine etiology of the syndrome. Parameters that ca...