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Propofol sedation by non-anaesthesiologists is an upcoming sedation regimen in several countries throughout Europe. Numerous studies have shown the efficacy and safety of this sedation regimen in gastrointestinal endoscopy. Nevertheless, this issue remains highly controversial. The aim of this evidence- and consensus-based set of guideline is to provide non-anaesthesiologists with ...

Propofol sedation by non-anesthesiologists is an upcoming sedation regimen in several countries throughout Europe. Numerous studies have shown the efficacy and safety of this sedation regimen in gastrointestinal endoscopy. Nevertheless, this issue remains highly controversial. The aim of this evidence- and consensus-based set of guideline is to provide non-anesthesiologists with ...

This article gives an overview on several novel clinical trials in the field of cardiovascular (CV) medicine which were presented during the hotline sessions and clinical trial updates at the European Society of Cardiology Congress, held in Stockholm, Sweden, from 28th August to 1st September 2010. The data have been ...

Jen Taylor reports on the European Association of Echocardiography now in its 18th year.

The 7th Meeting on Hypertension and Atherosclerosis was organized in collaboration with the Society of Hypertension and Atherosclerosis and endorsed by the European Society of Hypertension. From basic sciences to clinical aspects, the congress covered the wide spectrum of cardiovascular health, providing a venue for the conversation of scientists from ...

The aim of this guideline is to update the 2006 EFNS/PNS guideline on management of patients with a demyelinating neuropathy and a paraprotein (paraproteinemic demyelinating neuropathy [PDN]) by review of evidence and expert consensus. In the absence of adequate evidence, the panel agreed on good practice points: (1) patients with ...

The aim of the Round Table was to make recommendations with regard to the imminent revision of the European Directive on clinical drug trials (2001/20/CE). While recognising the importance of compliance with this Directive, which is not optimal in some member states of the European Union, it would be constructive ...

The 4th European Congress of Virology, hosted by the Italian Society for Virology, attracted approximately 1300 scientists from 46 countries worldwide. It also represented the first conference of the European Society for Virology, which was established in Campidoglio, Rome, Italy in 2009. The main goal of the meeting was to ...

Evaluation of: Sehestedt T, Jeppesen J, Hansen TW et al.: Risk stratification with the risk chart from the European Society of Hypertension compared with SCORE in the general population. J. Hypertens. 27, 2351-2357 (2009). Risk factor assessment is an important issue in preventing and treating cardiovascular diseases. Three widely used ...

This manuscript will be simultaneously published in all Affiliated National Societies Journals that consented to publication.

A European Federation of Cytology Societies (EFCS) working party of 28 members from 14 European countries met at the European Congress of Cytology in Lisbon in September 2009, with two observers from the USA, to discuss the need for standardising thyroid FNA nomenclature in the light of the National Institute ...

A commentary on sorting through the maze and identifying the biotechnology associations in Europe most relevant to your company, university or organisation, and why all major stakeholders in the European biotechnology community should become actively engaged in key associations, as now is a crucial moment for shaping the environment for ...

The following viewpoint from PSI and EFSPI regarding the current level of statistical resource in the European regulatory agencies was first presented as a position paper to a meeting of the EU Heads of Agencies in July 2009, and was endorsed by EFPIA. Copyright (c) 2010 John Wiley & Sons, ...

This is a summary of the annual summer meeting that was a combination of two of the largest European paediatric surgical associations.

The aim of this article is to describe the paediatric highlights from the 2009 European Respiratory Society Annual Congress in Vienna, Austria. The best abstracts from the seven groups of the Paediatric Assembly (asthma and allergy, respiratory epidemiology, cystic fibrosis, respiratory physiology, respiratory infections and immunology, neonatology and paediatric intensive ...

Oil spills cause damage to the marine environment. Such oil spills originate from land-based or sea-based sources. Sea-based sources are discharges coming from ships or offshore platforms. The origin of the pollution can be accidental or deliberate (defined also as operational). The European and international legislation in the field of ...

At ECM25, held in Istanbul, Turkey, on 16-21 August 2009, the 25th anniversary of the European Crystallographic Meetings was celebrated. In this article, it is recalled how the idea of coordinating international meetings on crystallography in Europe was put forward at a meeting held in Manchester, UK, in April 1971, ...

By the end of WWI, plastic surgery had reached unexpected heights. The high quality of the work done for soldiers with facial injuries and burns, either as an emergency or as a delayed procedure, demonstrated that this new discipline was honourable, worthwhile and socially crucial, thus deserving official recognition and ...

This summary article provides an update on novel clinical trials in the field of cardiovascular (CV) medicine which were presented at the annual meeting of the European Cardiac Society, held in Barcelona, Spain, in August-September 2009. The data were presented by leading experts in the field with relevant positions in ...

The European Society of Cardiology Annual Congress, held in Barcelona, included topics covering new therapeutic developments in the field of cardiovascular disease. This conference report highlights selected presentations on the development and progression of atherosclerosis, imaging techniques for treating atherosclerosis and clinical trials of treatments for cardiovascular disease. Investigational drugs ...

This guideline, together with its sister guideline on the classification of urticaria (Zuberbier T, Asero R, Bindslev-Jensen C, Canonica GW, Church MK, Giménez-Arnau AM et al. EAACI/GA(2)LEN/EDF/WAO Guideline: definition, classification and diagnosis of urticaria. Allergy 2009;64: 1417-1426), is the result of a consensus reached during a panel discussion at the ...

Around 3000 delegates took part in the 19th Meeting of the European Neuroligical Society (ENS) and all sessions were well attended. All aspects of Neurology were covered in the comprehensive programme which included one presidential symposium on stroke, three main symposia on epilepsy, muscle disorders and multiple sclerosis (MS), 140 ...

There are many similarities between the recommendations of the European and American societies (i.e., the European Society of Cardiology, the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine, the North American College of Cardiology, and the American Heart Association) on the management of acute heart failure (AHF). There is a consensus that ...

The aim of this report is to describe the highlights of the European Respiratory Society annual congress in Berlin, Germany. The best abstracts in asthma and allergy, cystic fibrosis, respiratory infection, paediatric and neonatal intensive care, paediatric investigative techniques (in particular respiratory physiology and bronchoscopy) and respiratory epidemiology are presented ...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: During the first decade of the 21st century a number of important European randomized studies were published. In order to help shape clinical practice based on best scientific evidence from the literature, the International Conference on 'Multidisciplinary Rectal Cancer Treatment: Looking for an European Consensus' (EURECA-CC2) was ...

The European Trauma Course (ETC) was officially launched during the international conference of the European Resuscitation Council (ERC) in 2008. The ETC was developed on behalf of ESTES (European Society of Trauma and Emergency Surgery), EuSEM (European Society of Emergency Medicine), the ESA (European Society of Anaesthesiology) and the ERC. ...

The present guidelines aim to provide comprehensive and precise information regarding the laboratory diagnosis of the sexually transmitted infection (STI) syphilis in East European countries. These recommendations contain important information for laboratory staff working with STIs and/or STI-related issues. Individual East European countries may be required to make minor national ...

Trainees in obstetrics and gynaecology have officially organised meetings for European trainees since 1992. In order to understand each other better and appreciate differences in training, an annual exchange program and a meeting were developed to discuss topics related to training and harmonisation. The proceedings from the 17th meeting in ...

Folk taxonomies of race are the categorizations used by people in their everyday judgments concerning the persons around them. As cultural traditions, folk taxonomies may shape gene flow so that it is unequal among groups sharing geography. The history of the United States is one of disparate people being brought ...

The 6th Meeting of the European Society of Oncological Urology (chaired by Vincent Ravery, Paris, France) was held in Istanbul, Turkey, on 16-18 January 2009 and gathered more than 600 participants from 44 countries. Topics encompassed a number of uro-oncological issues, including prostatic carcinoma and bladder, renal and testicular cancers. ...

Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) have voluntarily formed transnational political groups and invariably follow the voting instructions of these groups. This is intriguing as there are few obvious incentives for doing so. Unlike national parties, for example, the political groups in the European Parliament are not punished by the ...

The 13th Annual Meeting of the European Council for Cardiovascular Research (ECCR) gathered leading European groups in basic and clinical cardiovascular research in Nice, France, 10-12 October 2008. With 160 participants and approximately the same amount of oral and poster presentations, it was a small but very comprehensive meeting covering ...

Over 3200 neurologists attended the 18th Meeting of the European Neurological Society to participate in the exciting and highly scientific programe. There was a 19% rejection of the submitted abstracts which covered all the aspects of neurology. One major symposium, 27 oral presentations and 107 posters on multiple sclerosis (MS) ...

4th European Meeting on Oxizymes. Helsinki, Finland, 16 - 18 June 2008, 34

4th European Meeting on Oxizymes. Helsinki, Finland, 16 - 18 June 2008, 61

The 6th European Stainless Steel Conference, Helsinki, Finland, June 10-13, 2008, Proceedings, 101-107

In 2005, for the first time in European history, an extraordinary expert panel named BSCG (Bariatric Scientific Collaborative Group), was appointed through joint effort of the major European scientific societies which are active in the field of obesity management. Societies that constituted this panel were: IFSO - International Federation for ...

Peer-reviewed abstracts presented at the meeting of the European Society of Skeletal Radiology (ESSR) of 2007 were reviewed again after oral presentation. Topics representing new concepts, new or novel imaging techniques and instructive case series involving the musculoskeletal system, felt to be of potential interest to investigators and practising clinicians, ...

The European patent system allows for the introduction of moral issues into decisions about the granting of patents. This feature has greatly impacted European debates about the patenting of biotechnology. This essay explores the European experience, in both the European Union and the European Patent Organization. It argues that there ...

3rd European Federation of Biotechnology Conference. Physiology of Yeasts and Filamentous Fungi PYFF3. Kuokka-Ihalainen, Annemari; Saloheimo, Markku; Pakula, Tiina (eds.). VTT Symposium 245, 40/T29

3rd European Federation of Biotechnology Conference. Physiology of Yeasts and Filamentous Fungi PYFF3. Kuokka-Ihalainen, Annemari; Saloheimo, Markku; Pakula, Tiina (eds.). VTT Symposium 245, 136/P80

15th European Biomass Conference. Berlin, Germany, 7 - 11 May 2007

Proceedings of the 31st European Brewery Convention Congress. Venice, Italy, 6 - 10 May 2007, 32: 298 - 309

Proceedings of the 31st European Brewery Convention Congress. Venice, Italy, 6 - 10 May 2007, 53: 499 - 503

Proceedings of the 31st European Brewery Convention Congress. Venice, Italy, 6 - 10 May 2007, 101: 915 - 922

Proceedings of the 31st European Brewery Convention Congress. Venice, Italy, 6 - 10 May 2007, 118: 1055 - 1059

This supplement of the Journal of American Society of Nephrology contains some of the proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Hypertension and the Kidney. The Conference, held in Madrid, Spain, in February 2006, was organized by the Department of Nephrology of the Hospital General, Universitario Gregorio Marañón, under the ...

The Second Consensus Conference on Stroke Management took place from 22 to 24 March 2006 in Helsingborg, Sweden. The meeting was arranged by the International Stroke Society, endorsed by the European Stroke Council and International Stroke Society, and co-sponsored by the WHO Regional Office for Europe. It was arranged in ...

This paper surveys the situation regarding bioethical issues in the European transitional societies. It aims at exploring past, present and future characteristics of bioethics in the European countries in transitions, analysing similarities, differences and common themes together with the historical development of bioethics. By carefully studying articles published since the ...