U.S. war costs: Two parts temporary, one part permanent

U.S. War Costs: Two Parts Temporary, One Part Permanent.

Military spending, fatalities, and the destruction of capital, all of which are immediately felt and are often large, are the most overt costs of war. They are also relatively short-lived. But the costs of war borne by combatants and their caretakers, which includes families, communities, and the modern welfare state, tend instead to be lifelong. In this paper I show that a significant componen...

Bradyarrhythmias, temporary and permanent pacing.

Bradycardia is common in critical care units. It may be transient, asymptomatic and of little consequence, or life-threatening. Bradycardia may result from abnormalities of the sinus node, atrioventricular node, or the His-Purkinje system. It may also be precipitated by drug effects or enhanced vagal tone. Proper diagnosis is pivotal to determining prognosis and management. Temporary and perman...

Henna Tattoo: Temporary or Permanent?

Recipes for checklists and bundles: one part active ingredient, two parts measurement.

To cite: Chopra V, Shojania KG. BMJ Qual Saf 2013;22:93–96. Central venous catheter-related bloodstream infection (CVC-BSI) is common, costly and potentially fatal. For decades, conventional wisdom regarded these infections as inevitable complications of care. This view changed following landmark studies 3 that demonstrated substantial reductions associated with the CVC-BSI ‘bundle.’ 5 Investig...

DISCERNING SYNOPTIC GOSPEL ORIGINS: AN INDUCTIVE APPROACH (Part One of Two Parts)

The claim of some NT scholars tha t verba l agreements in the Synoptic Gospels prove literary interdependence among them opens a challenge to investigate those Gospels thoroughly to check the claim’s validity. An inductive investigation of fifty-eight triple-tradition sections in the Burton and Goodspeed Harmony of the Gospels finds that an average of only 16% of the words in the sections are i...