‘Immediately I Thought We Should Do the Same Thing’

pO2 - Do we treat the right thing?

Accessible online at: www.karger.com/res Oxygen is essential for human life. Following the technical advances in the last century, pO2 was among the first parameters that were relatively easy to measure, which might explain its popularity in critical care and pulmonary medicine to assess oxygen supply [1]. pO2 appears to be a sensitive and rapidly changing parameter reflecting alterations of th...

Cholesterol lowering. Should it continue to be the last thing we do?

S ome of the treatments we use in cardiology must be applied urgently, such as cardiopulmonary resuscitation or thrombolytic therapy for myocardial infarction. The urgency is driven by pathophysiological imperatives, such as the need to prevent cerebral anoxia or to limit the extent of myocardial necrosis. Most other therapies can be instituted in a more leisurely way. Cholesterol lowering is o...

What we should do is blame do ∗

Thus, it is not the pseudocleft construction as a whole that results in the star on (1a). Rather, the problem is with the verb do that appears in the pseudocleft clause. This generalization has the virtue of differentiating the pseudoclefts in (1) from those in (2), since the latter lack any ∗My thanks to the participants in the Semantics II discussion section of April 10, 2001, for their help ...

Mental Health What Do We Know? What Should We Do?

Should we treat pyrexia? And how do we do it?

The concept of pyrexia as a protective physiological response to aid in host defence has been challenged with the awareness of the severe metabolic stress induced by pyrexia. The host response to pyrexia varies, however, according to the disease profile and severity and, as such, the management of pyrexia should differ; for example, temperature control is safe and effective in septic shock but ...