Respiratory Embarrassment

An embarrassment of riches.

Riches I applaud the efforts of Holmes et al (Pediatrics 2014;133:766–768) to provide guidance to clinicians asked to write narrative evaluations of medical students. As the authors correctly point out, thoughtful comments “provide meaningful feedback to the student about performance, and formulate strong statements for the Medical Student Performance Evaluation,” or MSPE. I have 1 concern rela...

The Revair Aerosphore in Curare Paralysis and Its Possible Service in Respiratory Embarrassment Due To Poliomyelitis

Severe rotational deformity, quadriparesis and respiratory embarrassment due to osteomyelitis at the occipito-atlantoaxial junction.

We present the case of an 83-year-old man who developed quadriparesis and respiratory embarrassment following osteomyelitis at the occipito-atlantoaxial junction. He had developed an abscess at this site after an earlier urinary infection with methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus. Stabilisation of the neck and antibiotic therapy led to an almost complete neurological recovery without rec...

Neuroscientist's embarrassment: artificial intelligence's opportunity.

or brain size corrected for body size. For example, I collected ethograms from the mid-twentieth century ethology literature, and across mammals the number of behaviors in the repertoire strongly correlates with relative brain size (EQ), not with absolute brain size [Changizi 2003, 2007]. As Chittka and Niven suggest, bigger brains may possess 'more of the same' of what is found in small brains...

Neo-Fregeanism: An Embarrassment of Riches

Neo-Fregeans argue that substantial mathematics can be derived from a priori abstraction principles, Hume’s Principle connecting numerical identities with one:one correspondences being a prominent example. The embarrassment of riches objection is that there is a plurality of consistent but pairwise inconsistent abstraction principles, thus not all consistent abstractions can be true. This paper...