The opinions expressed in this document represent those of the authors. The purpose of the document is to educate physicians and others about anesthetic issues pertinent to the elderly population. The document specifically does not purport to provide practice guidelines. The text is not intended to be comprehensive and any apparent anesthetic management suggestions will not apply to all patient...

A printable version of this syllabus is available here.

Basic constructions: The completeness and compactness theorems. The Löwenheim-Skolem theorem. Omitting types. Ultraproducts. Indiscernible sequences. Nice properties: Saturation, homogeneity, and the monster model. Elimination of imaginaries and Meq. Quantifier elimination. Model completeness. Countably categorical theories. Stable theories: Characterizations of a stable formula. Stable, supers...

(a) Definition of a ∆-system, statement and proof of the ∆-system lemma. (b) Statement of MA (Martin’s Axiom) and MAκ, proof that MAω holds and MAc fails. (c) Definition of a club and a stationary subset of κ, of the club filter and proof that the club filter on a regular cardinal κ is κ-complete. (d) Statement and proof of the Pressing Down Lemma. i. An application: Statement and proof of Thom...

The European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (EACVI) Core Syllabus for Cardiac Computed Tomography (CT) is now available online. The syllabus lists key elements of knowledge in Cardiac CT. It represents a framework for the development of training curricula and provides expected knowledge-based learning outcomes to the Cardiac CT trainees.

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