Halothane concentrations of 2 p.p.m. have been found in the breast milk of a lactating, practising anaesthetist. This concentration was consistent with the operating theatre environment. The authors fell that, in spite of the limited scope of the study, this is an additional reason for the elimination of waste anaesthetic agents from the operating theatre.

Downloaded: 29 May 2012 IP address: 148.88.176.155 strates how the French language manuals of the period were aimed primarily at English merchants obliged to travel abroad to trade. Through their presentation of language in situations, the manuals provide an admirable guide to contemporary commercial customs. The bulk of the book, though, is taken up with a detailed examination of the bargain s...

OBJECTIVE to study paediatric surgery rates in south-western Uganda, compare them to rates in England, and determine if existing surgical facilities and workforce meet World Health Organization (WHO) standards. METHODS to obtain information on surgical facilities and workforce, we conducted a cross-sectional survey of all hospitals performing major surgery in 14 districts of south-western Uga...

Sixty staff working in a hospital operating theatre, where a case of humidifier fever had been identified, were studied together with 49 subjects working in other parts of the hospital. They each had a blood test for serology, a skin test, and a chest radiograph and completed a questionnaire. The theatre staff also had pulmonary function tests. The theatre humidifier was found to contain severa...

In this paper I present the challenges of combining game design with theatre conventions in relation to the implementation of a hybrid form of pervasive performance, Chain Reaction. I use game design as part of my research process in order to explore how participatory games can be used to enable alternative ways of engaging with performance and theatre, more specifically how games can foster ar...

THE LONG OVERDUE translation of HansThies Lehmann’s Postdramatisches Theater into English finally gives a new readership an insight into a sophisticated and sensitive dis quisition on forty or so years of innovative theatre and its aesthetics. The study looks at many aspects of theatre and primarily con centrates on directors and performers. This essay considers how Lehmann’s ideas can be appli...

AIM This paper is a report of a study exploring nurses' perceptions of the components of competence in the operating theatre. BACKGROUND Competency Standards for operating theatre practice are used in some countries to guide clinical and professional behaviours. The need for competence assessment has been enshrined, but the conceptualization and agreement about what signifies competence in Op...

Howard Barker’s Theatre: Wrestling with Catastrophe, edited by James Reynolds and Andy W. Smith, sets out to provide “a timely and much-needed re-evaluation” (1) of Howard Barker and the theatre company founded to stage his work, The Wrestling School. The timeliness and necessity of the collection is, in part, due to the more “practice-orientated” (1) focus of its various contributions. Where p...