Ischemic preconditioning (Pre-con) is an adaptive response triggered by a brief ischemia applied before a prolonged coronary occlusion. We tested the hypothesis that repetitive ischemia applied during early reperfusion (R), i.e. post-conditioning (Post-con), is cardioprotective by attenuating R injury. In anesthetized open-chest dogs, the LAD was occluded for 60 min and reperfused for 3 h. In C...

Lagrangian control systems that are di erentially at with at outputs that only depend on con guration variables are said to be con guration at We provide a complete characterisation of con guration atness for systems with n degrees of freedom and n controls whose range of con trol forces only depends on con guration and whose Lagrangian has the form of kinetic energy minus potential The method ...

This work 1 is concerned with basic issues of the design of cal-culi and proof procedures for rst-order connection methods and tableaux calculi. Proof procedures for these type of calculi developed so far suuer from not exploiting proof connuence, and very often unnecessarily rely on a heavily backtrack oriented control regime. As a new result, we present a variant of a connection calculus and ...

o S m N THE AUTHORS’ previous article on tight glucose control and outcome in cardiovascular surgery, the following quesions that are clinically important for perioperative glycemic ontrol were outlined1: (1) What are the clinical hazards of cute perioperative hyperglycemia? (2) What level of glycemia s dangerous for the surgical patient? and (3) When should reatment be initiated, and what shou...

I HAVE NEVER YET won a debate with Felix Rapaport, partly because of my own ineptitude and perhaps partly because I would not want to win at the expense of such an old and good friend. Thus, I will summarize Felix's case for him although he has already eloquently done so. In brief, living donors are convenient, they provide a better biologic match on the average than can be achieved with cadave...

I have major concerns after reading the Pro/Con arguments presented by Drs. Phillips and Powell about the role of upper-airway surgery in the treatment of sleep apnea in the July issue of the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine 2005;1:236-45. Although I realize that the Pro/Con format encourages expressions of one’s opinions about the literature, these two presentations took the level of unscien...

The time of initiation of targeted temperature management in cardiac arrest patients is a matter of debate. This article will summarize the evidence for initiation of targeted temperature management already during cardiac arrest, before restoration of spontaneous circulation. Routine care should be based on evidence of high quality. The Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Eva...

In the late 1970s and early 1980s considerable publicity was given to the use of hypnosis as a technique to facilitate witness’ memory in police investigations. As empirical evidence mounted, however, a number of limitations and disadvantages emerged with regard to the use of hypnosis in this role. As a consequence, hypnosis as an aid in forensic investigations is now treated with considerable ...

We use the compression theorem (cf [7; section 6]) to prove results for equivariant con guration spaces analogous to the well-known non-equivariant results of May, Milgram and Segal [5,6,8]. AMS Classi cation 55P91, 55P35, 55P40; 57R91, 55P45, 55P47