Bourgeois, Henry oral history interview

Henry Bourgeois was born July 22, 1945 in Marlborough, Massachusetts. He came from a Franco-American background and his grandparents were New England mill workers. His father was an entrepreneur and his business provided LPG gas for heating homes. Bourgeois grew up in Massachusetts and then went to college at St. Anselms in Manchester, New Hampshire and graduated as a double major in sociology and economics. He then successfully pursued his graduate degree in library science at University of New Hampshire while working at the Nashua High School library in Nashua, New Hampshire. After he graduated, he moved to Lewiston, Maine to run the Lewiston Public Library. Lewiston was chosen as a recipient for the Model Cities program in 1968 and Bourgeois took over directing the program around 1969-1970 and left it in 1973. At the time of this interview he worked at the Maine Development Foundation

Handy, James oral history interview

James R. “Jim” Handy was born in Lewiston, Maine on July 26, 1954. His parents were Robert E., Sr. and Josephine (Palman) Handy, and he is third generation Polish-American. He graduated from Lewiston High School in 1972, and attended the University of Southern Maine in Portland, Maine. He has been a member of local, county, and state Democratic Committees and was a member of the Environmental Action Club. He was in the Maine house of representatives from 1982-92 and served two years in the Maine state senate from 1992-4. He was chair of Labor Committee, the Aging, Retirement and Veterans’ Committee, and the Legal Affairs Committee

Coagulation for the clinician

The integrity of the circulation is maintained through the provision of a rapid, potent, but tightly localised coagulation response to vascular damage. There is, however, one extraordinary problem in the regulation of haemostasis – blood flows. Normal haemostasis is the ability of the haemostatic system to control activation of clot formation and clot lysis in order to prevent haemorrhage without causing thrombosis

Rolde, Neil oral history interview

Neil Rolde was born on July 25, 1931 in Boston, Massachusetts. His parents were L. Robert and Lillian Lewis Rolde. Neil’s earliest exposure to politics was from his parents, who were both moderate Republicans. However, he did not become really politically active until after he went to Phillips Andover and then Yale. At that time, he switched from the Republican Party to the Democratic Party at the behest of his friends, who were liberal political activists. After getting his Master’s degree in Journalism from Columbia University, Rolde married and moved to York, Maine. He became very involved with the Maine Democratic Party and worked for Ken Curtis before being elected to the Maine Legislature in 1972

The economic value of rapid deployment aortic valve replacement via full sternotomy

Aim: To compare the economic value of EDWARDS INTUITY EliteTM (EIE) valve system for rapid-deployment aortic valve replacement (RDAVR) in a full sternotomy (FS) approach (EIE-FS-RDAVR) versus FS-AVR using conventional stented bioprosthesis. Data & methods: A simulation model to compare each treatment’s 30-day inpatient utilization and complication rates utilized: clinical end points obtained from the TRANSFORM trial patient subset (EIE-FS-RDAVR) and a best evidence review of the published literature (FS-AVR); and costs from the Premier database and published literature. Results: EIE-FS-RDAVR costs $800 less than FS-AVR per surgery episode attributable to lowered complication rates and utilization. Combined with the lower mortality, EIE-FS-RDAVR was a superior (dominant) technology versus FS-AVR. Conclusion: This preliminary investigation of EIE-FS-RDAVR versus conventional FS- AVR found the EIE valve offered superior economic value over a 30-day period. Real- world analyses with additional long-term follow-up are needed to evaluate if this result can be replicated over a longer timeframe