The treatment of iatrogenic pseudoaneurysms due to catheter intervention is the resection and suture of aneurysm. However, the administration of those with infection is frequently difficult. In this report, we describe three cases with iatrogenic infected pseudoaneurysms in femoral artery. The treatment of those cases is useful of the selection of arterial reconstruction avoiding infectious focus and the systemic use of antibioticses, the control of local infection.

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　In a case conference between our department and emergency medical technicians in Toyama medical district, we discussed about the protocol for refractory ventricular fibrillation (VF) which was not terminated by serial shocks under the comprehensive defibrillation protocol. The question was whether or not the request for the online medical control (MC) had priority over the additional shocks by emergency life-saving technicians without MC because of time loss during communication. We answered that immediate transportation should be required in cases of the refractory VF since the additional shocks were rarely effective and prompt adult cardiovascular life support (ACLS) needed to be performed.

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　The 110th Annual Meeting of Japanese Association of Anatomists (JAA110) (President : Prof. Osamu OHTANI, Toyama Medical and Pharmaceutical University ; Vicepresident : Prof. Shoichi ISEKI, Kanazawa University) was held at Toyama Medical and Pharmaceutical University from March 29 to 31 in 2005. We report the characteristics and results of this meeting and briefly discuss the way scientific meetings should be organized.

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