Littering - a persistent problem

A persistent problem

Women hold less than 15% of the full professorships in Europe, even though more than half of the European student population is female (EU, 2006). In the light of this, there are contrasting views about the future of women in academic research. Some analysts perceive an intractable gender gap at the higher levels of academia owing to the lower success rate of women at every step up the career l...

Residual neuromuscular blockade: a persistent clinical problem.

In the classic study of deaths associated with anesthesia and surgery, Beecher and Todd in 1954 reported a 6-fold increase in the death rate of patients undergoing general anesthesia when ‘‘curare’’ was used compared with anesthesia without neuromuscular blockade (NMB). Their study must be viewed in the context of the initial use of neuromuscular blocking drugs (NMBDs) (curare) with volatile an...

Persistent Eosinophilia is a Challenging Problem

Eosinophilia is defined as an AEC >500/μL [1]. The severity of eosinophilia has been arbitrarily divided into mild (AEC: 5001,500/mm3), moderate (AEC: 1,500-5,000/mm3), and severe (AEC: >5,000/mm3) [2]. HE is defined as >1.5 x 109/L eosinophils in the blood on 2 examinations (interval >1 mo) and/or tissue HE. Subtypes of HE are hereditary (familial); primary (clonal/ neoplastic) HE, secondary (...

Persistent leukocytosis-is this a persistent problem for patients with acute ischemic stroke?

BACKGROUND In the setting of acute ischemic stroke (AIS), leukocytosis has been shown to be an indicator of inflammatory response. Although leukocytosis on admission has been shown to correlate with initial stroke severity in AIS patients, no work has been done to assess if there are differences in transient or persistent leukocytosis in patients without infection. The objective of this study i...

Air weapon injuries: a serious and persistent problem.