The aged require attention

The aged require attention.

H o s p ita ls a re in s t i tu t io n s an d people en tering are trea ted as part o f the w hole. N urses do things for patien ts and if they are to o slow they are hurried up. T he w ard has a fairly rigid rou tine . It is all ab n o r­ m al, yet under these circum stances people are expected to recover from illnesses, diseases and o p era ­ tions. B efore they start to recover they have to ...

Secondary lines require "primary" attention.

An incident report received from an intensive care unit involving the administration of a secondary infusion is reprinted, with permission, and includes material from an ISMP Canada Safety Bulletin (ISMP Canada, 2005). The incident highlights a general shortcoming of many infusion pumps: lack of the capability to recognize primary versus secondary infusions. Reliance on practitioner vigilance t...

Does size rescaling require central attention?

The goal of the present experiment was to determine if object size rescaling in the shape-matching task requires central resources. Two polygons were presented side by side as the second task in a psychological refractory period paradigm. The polygons could be the same as each other or mirror images of each other and the size ratio between the two polygons was varied. In the first task, subject...

Medical education: addressing questions that require attention

Does Perceptual Learning Require Consciousness or Attention?

It has been proposed that visual attention and consciousness are separate [Koch, C., & Tsuchiya, N. Attention and consciousness: Two distinct brain processes. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 11, 16-22, 2007] and possibly even orthogonal processes [Lamme, V. A. F. Why visual attention and awareness are different. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 7, 12-18, 2003]. Attention and consciousness converge w...