Saint Louis University

About: Saint Louis University is a education organization based out in St Louis, Missouri, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Health care. The organization has 18927 authors who have published 34895 publications receiving 1267475 citations. The organization is also known as: SLU & St. Louis University.

Tetralogy of Fallot: anatomic variants and their impact on surgical management.

Abstract: Tetralogy of Fallot is the most common form of cyanotic congenital heart disease. In this condition, episodic worsening of hypoxemia results from dynamic shifts in physiology, so-called "Tet spells." The relative frequency of this lesion and the risks of exacerbating "Tet spells" make anesthetic management of this patient population challenging. The conduct of palliative and reparative cardiac surgery is determined in large part by the anatomic variations within the spectrum of this disorder, most notably the severity of right ventricular outflow tract obstruction. This review will address the impact that the anatomic substrate has on the perioperative management of this interesting patient population.

Blaming the organization for abusive supervision: The roles of perceived organizational support and supervisor's organizational embodiment

Abstract: Why do employees who experience abusive supervision retaliate against the organization? We apply organizational support theory to propose that employees hold the organization partly responsible for abusive supervision. Depending on the extent to which employees identify the supervisor with the organization (i.e., supervisor's organizational embodiment), we expected abusive supervision to be associated with low perceived organizational support (POS) and consequently with retribution against the organization. Across 3 samples, we found that abusive supervision was associated with decreased POS as moderated by supervisor's organizational embodiment. In turn, reduced POS was related to heightened counterproductive work behavior directed against the organization and lowered in-role and extra-role performance. These findings suggest that employees partly attribute abusive supervision to negative valuation by the organization and, consequently, behave negatively toward and withhold positive contributions to it.