Pathology's top ten one liners--and what they really mean

Preemptive, preventive, multimodal analgesia: what do they really mean?

SUMMARY To improve postoperative pain management, several concepts have been developed, including preemptive analgesia, preventive analgesia, and multimodal analgesia. This article will discuss the role of these concepts in improving perioperative pain management. Preemptive analgesia refers to the administration of an analgesic treatment before the surgical insult or tissue injury. Several ran...

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Intelligent Biohybrid Neurotechnologies: Are They Really What They Claim?

In the era of 'intelligent' biohybrid neurotechnologies for brain repair, new fanciful terms are appearing in the scientific dictionary to define what has so far been unimaginable. As the emerging neurotechnologies are becoming increasingly polyhedral and sophisticated, should we talk about evolution and rank the intelligence of these devices?

CAGD’s Top Ten: What to Watch

hile painless for the guest editor, these introductions might cause readers some pain. Still, I don’t want to waste this opportunity to tell you about interesting developments in computer-aided geometric design by giving you reason to hastily skim past these opening paragraphs. So, I abstracted a “top ten” list of what’s happening in CAGD based on ideas from recent conferences, technical papers...

Gastric residual volumes in critical illness: what do they really mean?

The practice of measuring gastric residual volumes (GRVs) has become a routine part of enteral feeding protocols in the critical care setting. However, little scientific evidence indicates that their use improves patient outcomes. The use of GRVs is more of a tradition, which unfortunately guides the delivery of enteral nutrition (EN). The practice of GRVs is predicated on several flawed assump...