Introduction to Gambhir Thoracostomy Forceps

Prehospital thoracostomy.

We read with interest the article on prehospital thoracostomy published in the journal [1] and the correspondence that followed recently [2,3]. We work on the unit where the intervention was originally described [4]. In the last 10 years 1079 thoracostomies have been performed on prehospital patients in our system. This amounts to 9% of trauma patients attended in the same period. We are aware ...

Horner's syndrome secondary to tube thoracostomy.

Tube thoracostomy is a common therapeutic approach applied in medical practice. Certain complications of this procedure have been described in the literature. Oculosympathetic paresis, or Horner's syndrome, occurs from the interruption of second order preganglionic neurons and manifests as miosis, ptosis, hemifacial anhidrosis and enophthalmos. Iatrogenic Horner's syndrome, on the other hand, v...

An Introduction to Sociolinguistics

Introduction to circular data

In many diverse scientific fields, the measurements are directions. For instance, a biologist may be measuring the direction of flight of a bird or the orientation of an animal. A series of such observations is called ”directional data”. Since a direction has no magnitude, these can be conveniently represented as points on the circumference of a unit circle centered at the origin or as unit ...

Introduction to Ethics

  The issues involved in this article are mainly concentrated on the origins of ethics or Moral ethics as an indepent science It has been said that this area of science was founded by Greek Philosophers after a great crisis and debates between such thinkers as Socrates, Plato and Aristotle on one side and  study of other cuitures and moral traditions, especially the Chinese and Hindu tradition...