Editorial: A Declaration of Dependence

Embracing the principles of the San Francisco Declaration of Research Assessment: Robert Balaban’s Editorial

Early career scientists today face many obstacles in their effort to achieve an independent career, including stiff competition for grant funding and jobs. Many of these hurdles reappear throughout one's scientific career; thus, for example, achieving and maintaining external funding for one's research is a widely used criterion in evaluations for academic advancement. One widely perceived barr...

Editorial: A Study of Disaster Databases

The global investigation of disasters in recent years shows that their number has increased annually and the number of affected people and costs of disasters are increasing

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Editor—We read with interest the article by Quinn and colleagues, which adds to our evolving knowledge of obstetric failed intubation. The paper confirms a lot of our own findings. Some of these findings are replicated in the USA, Brigham’s Women’s Hospital paper. Failed intubation rates are low in countries that have a high rate of general anaesthetic usage, such as South Africa: failed intuba...

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groups. The above mentioned proof-of-concept trials demonstrate that optimal intraoperative management of patients not only have an important role in reducing the incidence of POCD, particularly in elderly patients, but also may lead to an improvement in outcome generally following major surgery. It would be very unfortunate if such an excellent review left anaesthetists feeling that POCD was n...