Clarifying NAP5

NAP5: aware of the limitations.

Editor—I would like to congratulate P.S. Myles on an excellent editorial in the BJA, and reiterate the caution he expresses regarding the appropriateness of applying the findings of NAP5 (or indeed any clinical trial, survey or audit) to a different population than that which has been sampled. Myles refers to the misguided tendency/desire of clinicians to extrapolate the results of a specific s...

NAP5: intraoperative awareness detected, and undetected.

NAP5 and isolated forearm technique: reply.

not suitable for deployment. The encouragement in the NAP5 report of IFT training and its apparent elevation to equal status with pEEG, may lead to wellmeaning but potentially harmful clinical experimentation, with unknown consequences for patients. Although a tourniquetmay be safely inflated for a limited period during arm surgery, failure to deflate an IFT cuff might eventually lead to seriou...

Clarifying Utterances

The paper argues for the importance of utterances (as opposed to \sen-tences in context") as basic units in dialogue. The main case study is clar-iication: a characterization is provided within KOS, a recently developed synthesis of situation semantics and dialogue games, of the clariications that can follow up on an utterance. This involves outlining: (a) a theory of understanding for dialogue...

Clarifying Human White Matter.

Progress in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) now makes it possible to identify the major white matter tracts in the living human brain. These tracts are important because they carry many of the signals communicated between different brain regions. MRI methods coupled with biophysical modeling can measure the tissue properties and structural features of the tracts that impact our ability to thin...