Where there is sodium there may be sepsis

Where there is smoke, there is fire.

The ankle-brachial index (ABI), a ratio of systolic blood pressure measured at the ankle and the brachial artery, is a simple noninvasive screening test used to diagnose peripheral arterial disease (PAD). PAD affects over 12 million people in the United States and its prevalence increases with increasing age (1,2). Patients with an abnormal ABI, defined as 0.90 or 1.40, are at increased risk of...

Where there is a will there is a way

Peritonitis was a significant problem for our peritoneal dialysis patients in 2003. In January 2004, we initiated a continuous quality improvement project to address the problem. Our project took 18 months to complete. We developed many action items. Our first step was to analyze the data to ensure accuracy, and also to determine the causative organism that contributed most to the problem. The ...

Where there is no overlap, there is a gap.

There Is an ‘Unconscious,’ but It May Well Be Conscious

Depth psychology finds empirical validation today in a variety of observations that suggest the presence of causally effective mental processes outside conscious experience. I submit that this is due to misinterpretation of the observations: the subset of consciousness called "meta-consciousness" in the literature is often mistaken for consciousness proper, thereby artificially creating space f...

There may be no nowhere dense ultrafilter

We show the consistency of ZFC + ”there is no NWD-ultrafilter on ω”, which means: for every non-principal ultrafilter D on the set of natural numbers, there is a function f from the set of natural numbers to the reals, such that for every nowhere dense set A of reals, {n : f(n) ∈ A} / ∈ D. This answers a question of van Douwen, which was put in more general context by Baumgartner. ∗ The researc...