Characterization of the drug-positive adolescent trauma population: should we, do we, and does it make a difference if we test?
Forty percent of the patients screened positive, thus, supporting screening in adolescent trauma patients. Selective criteria based on injury characteristics are not justified.
Using a standardized operative procedure, combining a bidirectional cavopulmonary connection with a polytetraflouroethylene tube placed from the inferior caval vein to the pulmonary arteries for nearly all patients with functionally univentricular hearts, early and late survival within the "perfect" outcome as predicted by the initial equations of Fontan and Kirklin is routinely achievable in the current era. The need for late revision or replacement of the tube is rare.