Book Review: Oxford Specialist Handbooks in Anaesthesia: Vascular Anaesthesia.

Oxford Specialist Handbooks in Surgery – Cardiothoracic Surgery

Reading this handbook of " Cardiothoracic " surgery, I am reminded of the Peter Cook & Dudley Moore sketch about the one legged man auditioning for the role of Tarzan: " I love your right leg … I have nothing against your right leg … unfortunately neither do you! " Well, I have nothing against the cardiac surgery side of this book, it is excellent. Unfortunately the Thoracic component is almost...

Judicial Networks - Oxford Handbooks

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Scientific Realism - Oxford Handbooks

This article endeavors to identify the strongest versions of the two primary arguments against epistemic scientific realism: the historical argument—generally dubbed “the pessimistic meta-induction”—and the argument from underdetermination. It is shown that, contrary to the literature, both can be understood as historically informed but logically validmodus tollensarguments. After specifying th...

ANAESTHESIA Review Article

Although neuromuscular blocking agents (NMBAs) provide optimal surgical conditions and a reduced incidence of laryngopharyngeal lesions during tracheal intubation, there are evidence of delayed paralysis and higher morbidity and mortality after their use. To date many anesthesiologists do not routinely use objective method to monitor neuromuscular function due to the fact that there are no idea...

Educational support for specialist international medical graduates in anaesthesia