Redefining resuscitation

Redefining in-hospital resuscitation: the concept of the medical emergency team.

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) has evolved over centuries with the greatest progress being made in the last 4 decades [1]. In 1958 and 1960 key advances were described by Safar [2] and Kouwenhoven [3] which have now become the basis for modern day basic life support (BLS) CPR. Extending BLS, advanced life support (ALS) guidelines have been developed to deal with the complex scenarios that ...

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Redefining Workplace Safety and Health

Redefining robustness

The concept of robustness in the context of most work in Alife and complex systems implies that the results of a given model remain consistent despite unexpected variation. For example, homeostatic coupling between an animat and the environment is one possible simple form of robustness which we have demonstrated in simple simulation models (Ikegami et al., 2008, BioSystems, 91, p. 388), in whic...

Redefining Genocide

The twentieth century was the bloodiest period in human history. It was plagued by two major world wars and the “cold war” between the West and the Soviet Union, which fought proxy wars in decolonizing and developing countries. In World War I, the Turkish government appalled the world by staging one of the most barbaric massacres in modern times: the death march of the Armenians in Turkey. Neve...