The findings of this study acknowledge that triple phase imaging has a clear diagnostic advantage where the indication is qualified.
As expected, colonoscopy diagnostic performance was significantly higher in requests of patients over 50, in urgent requests, and in cases where the indication for request was diagnostic suspicion.
All procedures where the indication for bronchoscopy was to obtain samples from a lesion suspicious of malignancy and where the final diagnosis obtained through all possible methods was malignant lung disease were eligible for inclusion in the study.
The study population was women giving birth in New South Wales (NSW), Australia, who had caesarean section at term 37-411 where) where the indication was elective repeat caesarean section (ERCS) and resulted in a singleton live birth.
However, it must be stated that the extent of subsequent sub-fertility was less pronounced among primiparous women (9%), studies published since 2000 (9%), and where the indication for mode of delivery was known (8%).
Jovic-Stosic and colleagues [ 59] reported a series of nine uses of ILE where the indication for use was poor response to vasopressors in a series of patients intoxicated with a lipophilic toxin.
Drug indication information from the FDA adverse event reporting system (FAERS) was downloaded from the FDA website [ 24], where the indication of a drug were linked to the drug name via the fields ISR and DRUG_SEQ The drug names in FAERS were mapped to pipeline® drug names via drug synonyms field in the pipeline® database.
For episodes where the indication was anaemia, bleeding or coagulopathy, administration of crystalloid or colloid was less likely (OR = 0.15, 95% CI 0.12 to 0.20 and OR = 0.13, 95% CI 0.10 to 0.17 respectively) and blood products more likely (OR = 26.7, 95% CI 20.2 to 35.4).
Patients having a colonoscopy for surveillance for inflammatory bowel disease or previous adenomatous polyps or cancer were excluded as were those where the indication was a screening colonoscopy in asymptomatic patients for a high risk family history, acromegaly or previous uretosigmoidostomy.
In patients where the indication for fluid was impaired perfusion or low cardiac output, colloid was administered more commonly than crystalloid (899/1,743 (51.6%) versus 739/1,743 (42.4%)) and compared to this group, colloid was more likely to be administered as part of a unit protocol (OR 1.65, 95% CI 1.21 to 2.25) and for correction of abnormal vital signs (OR 1.34, 95% CI 1.12 to 1.60).
