Trust is Everything

Is Timing Everything?

Thank you Ben and AmSECT for organizing this conference. And thank you all for showing up on Saturday morning. My objectives for this presentation are to review the current knowledge of time spent below critical thresholds and more specifically the relationship between low oxygen delivery and organ function following cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB). Additionally, we will investigate the time–dose ...

Support is everything

Inadequate support for placement of balloons or stents continues to be a problem in interventional cardiology. We read with interest the report on MotherDaughter-Granddaughter Double Guide Liner Technique for Delivering Stents Past Multiple Extreme Angulations. The authors cleverly describe the use of a 6 French Guide Liner inside an 8 French Guide Liner to cross two difficult to cross saphenou...

Everything Is Under Control

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Timing Is Everything?

Is everything a world?

This paper discusses “inclusionism” in the context of David Lewis’s modal realism (and in the context of parasitic accounts of modality such as John Divers’s agnosticism about possible worlds). This is the doctrine that everything is a world. I argue that this doctrine would be beneficial to Divers-style agnosticism; that it suggests a reconfiguration of the concept of actuality in modal realis...