Sir,—We were interested to read the report by O’Donnell and colleagues [1] of a patient with compartment syndrome occurring as a complication of malignant hyperthermia (MH). We recently managed a similar case. A 29-yr-old, previously healthy man presented for repair of a fractured tibial plateau. After induction of anaesthesia with propofol, midazolam and fentanyl, he was allowed to breathe iso...

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The spectrum of pediatric interstitial lung disease (PILD) includes a diverse group of rare disorders characterized by diffuse infiltrates and disordered gas exchange. Children with these conditions typically present with tachypnea, crackles, and hypoxemia. Recent advances have been made in the identification of different types of PILD that are unique to infancy. More exciting has been the disc...

From 1998 to 2002, 369 patients (47.39% M, 52.61% F; mean age 67.9 yrs) were faced in the Authors' Department due to acute intestinal obstruction. The main reasons of obstruction were adhesions in 281 patients (76.15%), followed by malignant neoplasms of large intestine in 41 patients (11.11%) hernias in 9 patients (2.44%), Ischemic colitis (4.1%), bezoars (2.39%), bile stone (2.71%) and volvul...

We begin in this section with a brief introduction to the field of property testing. Section 2 explains the famous example of “linearity testing.” Section 3 gives upper bounds for the canonical problem of “monotonicity testing,” and Section 4 shows how to derive property testing lower bounds from communication complexity lower bounds. These lower bounds will follow from our existing communicati...