Cabbages and CABG.

Cabbages and CABG.

Coronary artery bypass grafts relieve angina and prolong some patients' lives with an operative mortality of 1-4%. The grafting requires temporary artificial maintenance of the blood's circulation and oxygenation with cardiopulmonary bypass. In the United States some 200 000 people yearly have a coronary artery bypass graft-six times as many in relation to the population as in Britain. The grea...

The conceptual structure of cabbages and things

In 1994Eleanor Saffran co-authoredwithMyrna Schwartz a seminal review of semantic memory impairments and their implications for the representational format and organisation of conceptual knowledge. In that paper, they argued that conceptual knowledge is distributedacross a network of different sub-systems or ‘‘attribute domains,’’ including at least a perceptual and functional or propositional ...

Of Cabbages and Kings:continuing Conversation on Performance Enhancers in Sport

My focus in a recent essays has been on the use of performance enhancing drugs in sport. I have suggested the appropriateness of establishing a philosophical-cultural context within which to develop parameters for proscribing certain behaviors in sport (6), and, most recently, I have considered the use of performance enhancers as sufficient to warrant a (re)consideration of the question whether...

Viability, Remodeling, and CABG

F ollowing myocardial infarction, left ventricular (LV) remodeling is characterized by increased LV end-diastolic and end-systolic volumes (ESV) and decreased LV ejection fraction (EF) (1). This process is driven by elongation of infarcted zones and changes within the unaffected myocardium, including myocyte hypertrophy and interstitial collagen deposition. With medical therapy, revascularizati...

Of Cabbages and Kings: Classroom Observations & Value-Added Measures