CRIB, son of Apgar, brother to APACHE.

Learning to love big brother.

A pologies to George Orwell but the Evidence Based gurus have replaced the Thought Police. The Ministry of Love has been taken over by the Cochrane Collaboration. Perhaps it is just as well! The latest piece of research to cross my desk creates some food for thought. One area of sports medicine that has slipped under the radar is podiatry, where practitioners prescribe orthoses on the basis tha...

Some psychiatric sequelae to crib death.

Neonatal assessment in the delivery room – Trial to Evaluate a Specified Type of Apgar (TEST-Apgar)

BACKGROUND Since an objective description is essential to determine infant's postnatal condition and efficacy of interventions, two scores were suggested in the past but weren't tested yet: The Specified-Apgar uses the 5 items of the conventional Apgar score; however describes the condition regardless of gestational age (GA) or resuscitative interventions. The Expanded-Apgar measures interventi...

Brother Animal

?a seemingly forgotten figure of earliest psychoanalytical days. The picture emerges of a brilliant and talented man, caught in the web of his own disturbed psyche, who finally sought refuge and self-expression through psychoanalysis. He made some of the earliest contributions to the psychoanalytic study of the psychoses, and impressed Freud and his colleagues as a man of ideas and importance. ...

Nobody's Brother