Anaesthetist could face prosecution after GMC strikes her off

After Shipman: reforming the GMC--again.

CycleGAN Face-off

Face-off is an interesting case of style transfer where the facial expressions and attributes of one person could be fully transformed to another face. We are interested in the unsupervised training process which only requires two sequences of unaligned video frames from each person and learns what shared attributes to extract automatically. In this project, we explored various improvements for...

The woman who could not hold up her head.

Low serum potassium concentration is a frequently encountered abnormality, seldom accompanied by life-threatening symptoms. We present a 55-year-old women with a severe, symptomatic hypokalaemia. The pathogenesis and clinical manifestations are discussed.

Could ultrasonography be used by an anaesthetist to identify a specified lumbar interspace before spinal anaesthesia?

BACKGROUND Insertion of a needle into the lumbar subarachnoid space may cause damage to the spinal cord. Current techniques to identify a safe interspace have limitations. Ultrasound was investigated as a means to improve anatomical accuracy. METHODS Seventeen patients attending for elective magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the spine were studied. Ultrasonic identification of the L3-4 inte...

Southall: the GMC responds.