Survey of part-time senior registrar anaesthetists.

Progress of a cohort of trainee anaesthetists.

The excessive number and consequently poor career prospects of registrars in training have recently been the subject of comment.' Even in a shortage specialty such as anaesthesia suitably qualified registrars have had difficulty in obtaining promotion to the senior registrar grade for higher professional training2 and expanding the grade would improve the registrars' chances of promotion. Are e...

Combining Constraint Satisfaction and Local Improvement Algorithms to Construct Anaesthetists' Rotas

A system is described which has been built to compile weekly rotas for the anaesthetists in a large hospital. The rota compilation problem is an optimization problem (the number of tasks which cannot be assigned to an anaesthetist must be minimized) and has been forraulated as a constraint satisfaction problem. The forward checking algorithm is used to find a feasible rota, but because of the s...

Successful Treatment of Ethylene Glycol Poisoning with Haemodialysis

Staffing in cardiology in the United Kingdom 1990. Sixth biennial survey: with data on facilities in cardiology in England and Wales 1989.

The Sixth Biennial Survey of Staffing in Cardiology was conducted in July 1990. This report summarises the data that were collected, together with the results of a survey of facilities in cardiology made in 1989. The total number of cardiologists in the United Kingdom, defined as individuals trained in the specialty and spending at least 40% of their time working in it, is now 323. Six individu...

A Heart-Wrenching Case of Loperamide Toxicity