"Now is the time to discuss things like elective ventilation, the possibility of retrieving hearts from newborns aged under three months and restarting hearts from people who have experienced circulatory death," Holt says.
The possibility of elective cesarean section, available in some countries, has intensified the debate [ 14].
Elective intervention offers the possibility of investigating HRQoL before and after surgery, and therefore changes in HRQoL over time.
To examine the possibility that elective admissions for surgical procedures carried out on weekends correspond to riskier procedures than those performed on weekdays, we examined the proportion of admissions in each procedure-specific risk quartile throughout the week, and similarly for emergency admissions.
The availability of effective antiretroviral regimens, an adequate infrastructure for elective cesarean delivery, and the possibility to safely avoid breastfeeding, should make it feasible to reduce and even eliminate perinatal HIV transmission in Russia.
The assessment of systemic LPS concentrations in such severely ill patients, however, may not be representative of our cohort, which consists of stable patients receiving elective TIPS given the strong possibility of transient endotoxinemia due to instrumentation and bleeding in the former group [ 30, 31].
However, it may reflect better cleaning practices in the elective unit and does raise the possibility that high bacterial loads on these devices may contribute to higher infection rates in acute hospitals.
If a patient has a possibility of compromised airway postoperatively, elective tracheostomy can be considered as a secure choice of treatment.
Another possibility is to determine the elective patient schedule given the expected number of emergencies [ 4].
We suggest further research on the possibility of supporting South-South electives by Northern colleagues.
As health care costs in the United States rise, an increasing number of Americans are going overseas for elective procedures, or are at least considering that possibility.
