February 2012: This Month in JoVE

February 2012

February 2012 BSP FINAL.pub

The outbreak of enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli in Germany last year and recent reports about the emergence of Salmonella Kentucky as a “new superbug” have re-focused public attention on food-borne diseases. Salmonellosis is an important cause of food-borne disease with significant economic burden to the population and healthcare systems. In the last century, microbiologists have identified...

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This Month in Anesthesiology

Most previous studies comparing lung isolation methods and devices have been performed by anesthesiologists who had extensive experience in thoracic anesthesia. With the increasing demand for one-lung ventilation, it is also important to define which device can be used most effectively by occasional users. In this issue, Campos et al. report on a study comparing the success rates of three diffe...

This Month in Anesthesiology

To further explore controversies surrounding parental presence and children’s anxiety during anesthesia induction, Caldwell-Andrews et al. devised and tested a measure to examine parents’ motivation to be present during the induction process: Motivation for Parental Presence during Induction of Anesthesia (MPPIA). The team then used the newly created measure to determine if the level of parent ...