Airway management, ensuring uninterrupted oxygenation and ventilation, is a fundamental part of the practice of anesthesia and of emergency and critical care medicine. Endotracheal intubation is an airway management technique indicated in a variety of clinical situations, most commonly for the maintenance of the upper airway during general anesthesia, but also in any situation involving the mai...

Few existing approaches towards architectural evolution deal with unanticipated evolution. This is an important restriction, since a lot of architectural changes are very di cult to anticipate. The reuse contract formalism has been designed speci cally to deal with unanticipated software evolution, and has already proven its practical use in di erent domains. We claim that the reuse contract ap...

CONTEXT Continued research into the mechanism of noncontact anterior cruciate ligament injury helps to improve clinical interventions and injury-prevention strategies. A better understanding of the effects of anticipation on landing neuromechanics may benefit training interventions. OBJECTIVE To determine the effects of anticipation on lower extremity neuromechanics during a single-legged lan...

The principal causes of unanticipated admission to the ambulatory surgery unit at Viladecans Hospital between October 1990 and January 1997 were analyzed. Of 7006 patients who underwent outpatient surgery in our facility, 108 were admitted (1.54%). The mean age was 38 years and 93.5% were American Society of Anesthesiologists’ (ASA) physical status classification I and II. The principal reasons...

Software risk management is particularly important when the target environment of the software is a safetycritical system. Adequate development standards and methods for building software functionally that is “close to correct” exist. But unfortunately, we often fail to imagine particular classes of system hazards that the software’s behavior could induce, because quite simply, we cannot forese...

t is a challenging time to be taking up the reins of Sexually Transmitted Infections. After a prolonged period of decline, there are epidemics of bacterial STIs in the United Kingdom and Western Europe, including outbreaks of syphilis. HIV continues to escalate; the prevalence of HIV is escalating due to persistent or rising incidence combined with increased survival. Globally we face major epi...

The issue of doctors’ pay is once again under the spotlight. profession remains divided over how important is, debating whether proposed 1% rise just another kick in teeth. To put this into context, has failed to keep pace with inflation for successive years, extent that we are now facing a 7% cut real terms past 10 years.1 And it’s not been eroded. current NHS pension offering about half what …