Second report from an Anaesthetic Reactions Advisory Service

Employment Medical Advisory Service.

Adverse reactions to anaesthetic agents.

Sir,—Even though some small changes in heart rate were shown to be statistically significant, no clinical significance was attached to such changes. The study was primarily done to assess the overall need of anticholinergic premedication in patients undergoing minor surgery and as such drugs were not administered on a weight basis. However, Dr Gilmour's comment has aroused our interest in this ...

The mastectomy advisory service.

At education .meetings, many questions were asked about the management of women who had a mastectomy performed. It was obvious that little or no information had been given to these women about prostheses, clothes, etc., nor had any psychological support been offered in dealing with husband and family. As nearly five hundred women undergo mastectomy each year in the province, it was obvious that...

The Employment Medical Advisory Service.

The historical development of the Employment Medical Advisory Service is described, and the Service's present organization is related to its range of activities, including its role as a source of information and advice on occupational health. The Employment Medical Advisory Service's influence on the development of occupational health practice, the collection of new knowledge and its adaptabili...

An Advisory QoS Service for GRID Based Learning Environments

This paper argues that the assumption of end-to-end QoS provision for use in Grid based applications is unsafe. We present an architecture which provides an adaptive QoS service for GRID applications which are prepared to adapt rather than assume the best and then suffer the worst. This is particularly relevant to Internet based GRIDs. An example application from the field of collaborative lear...