Bolivar’s Total War

MRSA: total war or tolerance?

Both methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA) and methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) can cause potentially severe infections, such as bacteraemia, surgical site infections, complicated skin and soft tissue infections (SSTI), and ventilator-associated pneumonia. However, they are also involved in a large number of mainly minor SSTI and are often mere colonizers without leading to...

Class Structure and "Total War"

Titrated total intravenous anaesthesia (TIVA) in war.

In the Rama mobile war hospital, intravenous (i.v.) anaesthesia was used in 78 patients undergoing surgical procedures lasting 4-25 min. Boluses of thiopentone (Group 1), propofol (Group 2), propofol + alfentanyl (Group 3), and ketamine + midazolam (Group 4) were used. Induction of anaesthesia, resulted in a mean blood pressure decreased about 15%. Apnoea of more than 20 sec was observed in Gro...

War

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Anyone who is inclined to think that the " Reading Wars " are over, or that the main warriors in these wars are only professional educators and researchers who support either whole language or phonics approaches to reading will continuously rethink their views during the reading of Reading across International Boundaries: History, Policy, and Politics. Openshaw and Soler have compiled a collect...