Intensive Monitoring Should Not Be the Routine

Intensive monitoring should not be the routine.

The main objective of acute stroke care should be to reduce death and disability, and the objective of monitoring should be the same. Treatment in stroke units (without intensive monitoring) is the only treatment option proven to reduce death in acute stroke patients, and also the only treatment that has shown beneficial long-term effects on survival and disability.1 All acute stroke patients s...

Stroke unit design: intensive monitoring should be a routine procedure.

Tommy, the protagonist of The Who’s first rock opera, became pinball champion although he was deaf and blind (a psychogenic disorder, as we all know). He plays the pinball machine by “intuition,” doesn’t see the ball or hear the whistles and sounds, and doesn’t see the lights and the flippers; nevertheless, he always wins. However, only few are so gifted that they can champion demanding tasks b...

I-14: Assisted Reproduction and Religion What Consideration Should Be and Should Not Be Relevant,

Several important issues are pertinent to an ethical discussion of the new technology today grouped under the name Assisted Reproduction Technology (ART). This is a moral imperative because each of us must decide what is to be considered ethically acceptable in assisted reproduction. Reflecting on the ethical dimension of ‘creating’ a new human life can play a major role in ensuring that in eac...

Chickenpox vaccination, not chickenpox, should be routine for Canadian children.

MRS Shimming: An Important Point Which Should not be Ignored

Introduction: Proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) is a well-known device for analyzing the biological fluids metabolically. Obtaining accurate and reliable information via MRS needs a homogeneous magnetic field in order to provide well-defined peaks and uniform water suppression. There are lots of reasons which can disturb the magnetic field homogeneity which can be corrected by a proc...