Calculated risks, 1st edition

Gout (1st Edition).

OR MANAGEMENT 1st Edition

a. Be able to facilitate operating room management including allocation of anesthesia and surgical resources. b. Demonstrate the ability for urgent/emergent pre-operative patient preparation, optimization and scheduling. c. Be able to evaluate and implement priorities in patient care. d. Demonstrate basic understanding of cost containment measures. II. MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE a. Be able to discuss "p...

Preface to the 1st edition

Critical studies on Mexican American literature were just coming into their own when Luis Leal wrote "Mexican American Literature: A Historical Perspective." In this important study maestro Leal wrote that "Mexican American literature of all genres is being written, published, and appraised at a striking rate" and that Chicano literature "has been recognized as a subject worthy of serious study...

Mice take calculated risks.

Animals successfully navigate the world despite having only incomplete information about behaviorally important contingencies. It is an open question to what degree this behavior is driven by estimates of stochastic parameters (brain-constructed models of the experienced world) and to what degree it is directed by reinforcement-driven processes that optimize behavior in the limit without estima...

Preface to the 1st English Edition

Therapy using local anesthetics occupies an ever more important place amongst alternative methods in medicine. The President of the American Society of Anesthetists, Professor J. J. Bonica, has stated that the nerve block as a diagnostic, prognostic, prophylactic, and therapeutic method has been received with ever-increasing interest in the USA and has been employed ever more frequently in rece...