Communicating with Juries: Problems and Remedies

Expansive Soils—problems and Remedies

Expansive soils are one of the examples of tropical soils. These soils pose problems to civil engineers in general and to geotechnical engineers in particular. They cause damage to structures founded in them because of their potential to react to changes in moisture regime. They undergo severe volume changes corresponding to changes in moisture content. Because of their potential to undergo vol...

Weaning from cardiopulmonary bypass: problems and remedies.

W a patient from cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) is an important step of surgical procedures. It requires the anaesthesiologist to apply the basic principles of cardiovascular physiology and pharmacology. The goal is a smooth transition from the mechanical pump back to the heart as the source of blood flow. Weaning off CPB should always be conducted in a coordinated fashion. The surgeon directs th...

Representative Juries: Examining the Initial and Eligible Pools of Juries

Communicating about resuscitation: problems and prospects.

BACKGROUND The Patient Self-Determination Act of 1991 implicitly encourages physicians to discuss advance directives and no-code orders with their patients. The medical literature to date, however, has done little to place resuscitative decision making in the context of how physicians, patients, and families communicate with one another. This paper investigates how interactions between involved...

Juries and Eyewitnesses