Approximately 1.3 billion fish are raised in off-shore and land-based aquaculture systems in the United States each year and slaughtered for food. Numerous methods are used to stun and/or kill farmed fish, but scientific research has found most to be inhumane. Methods such as asphyxiation on ice or air, carbon-dioxide stunning, gill-cutting (exsanguination) without prior stunning, and live chil...

Experiments were carried out on the effects of chilling lamb carcasses very rapidly in a pre-rigor condition. The chilling regime which was finally used was to cool the carcasses at an ambient temperature of -20°C and an air speed of 1·5 m/s for 3·5 h. Examination of striploins from carcasses subjected to this chilling regime showed that, after 7 day's storage, the meat was as tender as that fr...

“YOUR child’s heart stopped.” There are few more chilling words that parents can hear as they wait for a child who is in surgery. Preventing and treating this devastating event has always been of paramount concern to anesthesiologists. In this issue of ANESTHESIOLOGY, Morray et al. present important new data regarding anesthesiarelated cardiac arrest in children. These data come from the Periop...

A 59-year-old man presented to the gastroenterology clinic with 2 weeks of worsening lower back pain. There was associated poor appetite, fatigue, night sweats, and chills. The patient's medical history was significant for well-controlled hypertension and sigmoid diverticulosis. The thrombosis probably resulted from inflammation in the adjacent diverticulum.

Scrub typhus has a wide range of clinical presentation varying from mild symptoms like fever, chills, headaches, myalgias, gastric ulcerations and hepatitis to more fatal conditions pneumonia encephalopathy caused by disseminated vasculitis with splenic infarct being rare complication. We report case 50-years old male scrub who presented as multiple infarcts.

Amphotericin-B, a broad spectrum antifungal agent, has been known to cause adverse effects such as nephrotoxicity and infusion-related side effects such as fever, chills, rigor, and arthralgias. However, ototoxicity as an adverse effect of Amphotericin-B has not yet been reported in medical literature. We here report a case of a reversible form of ototoxicity induced by liposomal Amphotericin-B...

OBJECTIVE To determine the sensitivity and specificity of clinical and laboratory signs for the diagnosis of septic arthritis (SA). Patients and methods This prospective study included all adult patients with suspected SA seen in the emergency department or rheumatology department at the University Hospital, Clermont-Ferrand, France, over a period of 18 months. RESULTS In total, 105 patients ...