Their evaluation of ETAT implied that the inclusion of physiological parameters was superfluous and, in the triage of a paediatric patient, was 'time-consuming to perform and, if manually and hastily undertaken, could be incorrect'. Summarily doing away with an entire aspect of medical evaluation has a sense of throwing the baby out with the bathwater. There can be no question regarding the val...

a bacterial septicaemia occurred in 3-female oscars (astronotus ocellatus) of about 2-year old held in 300l freshwater aquaria in south tehran. the external signs of infected fish consisted of lethargy, anaemia, distension (clinical dropsy), exophthalmia and cataract. internally there was a large amount of red-ascitic fluid accumulated in the abdominal cavity with haemorrhages/ hyperaemia of in...