An Anxious Alliance

Human Rights and the Tobacco Industry: An Unsuitable Alliance

Anxious mothers... anxious babies?

Many mothers of infants experience days of worry and weeks of work—an experience made so much harder by the presence of a crying infant. Up to 20% of mothers in developed countries report excessive crying in their infants. Although often thought of as a benign, self-limiting condition, infant crying—in particular, crying that lasts more than 3 h per day, for more than 3 days per week and for mo...

Development of an infusion alliance.

Infusion therapy is one of the most invasive, complex, and pervasive therapies in the current health care system, yet there is very little investment in organizational knowledge management and intellectual human capital required to maintain patient safety. Catheter complications, fluid and medication errors, inadequate nutritional support, and transfusion of incompatible blood products manifest...

Malignant hyperthermia syndrome in an anxious patient.

A 30-yr-old patient with fulminant ulcerative colitis was anaesthetized on three occasions, for colectomy and rectal stump removal. The first anaesthesia, with droperidol and fentanyl and pancuronium neuromuscular block, was uneventful. Addition of suxamethonium on the second occasion and use of the original drugs plus nitrous oxide for the third anaesthesia produced symptoms of MH, which was c...

An anxious profession in an age of fear.

This paper proposes that some practices and trends in mental health care may be considered as defensive responses to collective anxiety and fear. On a larger scale similar dynamics occur around fear of terrorism. Collectively and individually we are pulled by the defensive forces and dynamics associated with anxiety. This can in part explain the polarization that occurs around issues of definit...