Dietrich W. Roloff

TL;DR: In this paper, a prospective controlled randomized study of the use of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation to treat newborns with respiratory failure was carried out using the randomized play-the-winner statistical method, where the chance of randomly assigning an infant to one treatment or the other is influenced by the outcome of treatment of each patient in the study.

TL;DR: Electracorporeal membrane oxygenation is now used in several neonatal centers as the treatment of choice for full-term infants with respiratory failure that is unresponsive to conventional management.

TL;DR: The interactive seminar based on theories of self-regulation led to patient-physician encounters that were of shorter duration, had significant impact on the prescribing and communications behavior of physicians, led to more favorable patient responses to physicians' actions, and led to reductions in health care utilization.

TL;DR: The University of Michigan experience with extracorporeal life support (ECLS) in 1000 consecutive patients between 1980 and 1998 is the largest series at one institution in the world and has shown that ECLS saves lives of patients with acute cardiac or pulmonary failure in a variety of clinical settings.

TL;DR: It is concluded that interactive asthma seminars for paediatricians had significant long-term benefits for their asthma care.