Almost every aspect of anaesthetic and intensive care practice can be taught within the operating theatre and intensive care unit. This includes knowledge in the areas of medicine, anatomy, pharmacology, physiology, measurement and statistics, invaluable psychomotor and global skills and abilities, as well as the many important non-clinical aspects of anaesthesia and intensive care including ef...

Addressing three current critical turns in gerontology, this article proposes the theatre as a fertile ground for various theoretical angles in age studies including the performative on and off stage, the narrative in the script and the critical questioning of age and ageism in the multiple realities of performance. Beginning from a shared site in the theatre, researchers may be able to establi...

On May 18, 2001 UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) proclaimed kutiyattam, the Sanskrit theatre of India, one of nineteen "Masterpieces of Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity." This was the first time in history that this art has received a prestigious international recognition (see www.unesco.org/bpi/intangible_heritage/india.htm). To celebrate this m...

A recent report by the National Audit Office found that only 50% to 60% of weekday operating time was being used. This report was examined by the Committee of Public Accounts and much of the blame for underutilization of operating theatres was attributed to poor working practices among surgeons. We investigated theatre utilization in our hospital and found underutilization on the same scale as ...

Background The Royal College of Surgeons of England encouraged the creation of singly dedicated 24-hour emergency theatres in 1997; emergency operating was previously largely determined by theatre availability rather than clinical need. Shortly after this St George’s Hospital, London designated one of its three trauma theatres as an ‘Acute Emergency Theatre’ (AET) and implemented a policy to ma...

The paper contains an exclusive interview of Ratan Thiyam (1948), the famous theatre director from Northeast and one major protagonists Theatre Roots movement in India. also provides authors’ experience with place, Imphal, (capital Manipur state), its people, milieu which intimately informed creative self his abode—the Chorus Repertory (CRT). is a state enigma for many outside state, not only m...

Taking studies on deconstruction, performance theories, and pragmatics as my point of departure, I investigate Elfriede Jelinek’s last political play Schwarzwasser (2020), where the so-called Ibiza-gate – which in 2018 involved former Vice Chancellor Austria is represented. In her interpretation, Jelinek refers to René Girard’s Violence Sacred Euripides’ Bacchae an intertextual dialogue. This c...

This paper presents an interactive theatre based on an embodied mixed reality space and wearable computers. Embodied computing mixed reality spaces integrate ubiquitous computing, tangible interaction and social computing within a mixed reality space, which enables intuitive interaction with physical world and virtual world. We believe it has potential advantages to support novel interactive th...

Phillip O’Leary, in his 2017 An Underground Theatre: Major Playwrights the Irish Language `1930-80, makes a stark summation of current state language theatre, genre that he warns may ‘sink into oblivion’ (ibid.: 303). While undertaking comprehensive reading plays Mairéad Ní Ghráda, Eoghan Ó Tuairisic, and Críostóir Floinn, O’Leary only touches upon one Connemara’s most important influential con...

BACKGROUND Retrograde ureteropyelography plays a vital role in imaging of the upper tract, particularly in aiding the diagnosis of upper tract urothelial cancers.1 Retrograde studies in theatre are often of inferior quality compared with those performed in the radiology department. Retrograde ureteric catheter placement in theatre is therefore followed by formal retrograde studies in the radiol...