Busting persistent myths about perioperative hypothermia

Busting myths about guidelines.

Busting myths to broaden our horizons

Historically, pig breeding programs have focused on a limited number of traits. Often growth rate, back fat and a measure of litter size at birth were the only traits considered. Genetic relationships with other unrecorded traits were ignored in this simple approach, although selection for these traits leads to correlated responses in feed efficiency, lean meat growth, carcase characteristics, ...

Medical history and medical practice: persistent myths about the foreskin.

Although many 19th-century misconceptions about the foreskin have been dispelled since it was shown that infantile phimosis was not an abnormality, the ideas that ritual or religious circumcision arose as a hygiene measure, and that circumcision makes no difference to sexual response, have persisted. The first idea should be dismissed as a myth and the second has been seriously questioned by mo...

Perioperative complications of hypothermia.

Perioperative hypothermia is a common and serious complication of anesthesia and surgery and is associated with many adverse perioperative outcomes. It prolongs the duration of action of inhaled and intravenous anesthetics as well as the duration of action of neuromuscular drugs. Mild core hypothermia increases thermal discomfort, and is associated with delayed post anaesthetic recovery. Mild h...

AIDS Myths and Myths about AIDS Myths: A Study about AIDS- related Perceptions in South Africa