In French, the final [ ] of dernier is not pronounced in dernier train (last train), but is pronounced, in the following syllable, in a liaison environment like dernier oignon (last onion). Due to liaison, dernier oignon becomes homophonous with dernier rognon (last kidney). In four pairs of cross-modal priming experiments, French participants made visual lexical decisions to vowelor consonant-...

tant in liaison psychiatry. Anxiety and depression are common among people with physical illnesses, influenced more by the person’s appraisal of his or her circumstances than by factors related to the disease itself such as severity of symptoms or prognosis. There are many different types of psychotherapy but the three main approaches are: • basic supportive techniques and problem solving • rel...

recognition of psychosomatic disorders. Liaison psychiatry demands a different set of specialised skills to those required in general adult psychiatry. The liaison psychiatrist must be adept at assessing relevant physical findings in addition to mental state, at engaging individuals with somatic presentations of psychiatric illness and at managing those with psychiatric and physical comorbidity...

Liaison mental health services (LMHS) developed originally to address the mental health needs of people with physical illnesses in general hospitals and more recently to work also with people with mental health problems presenting at non-mental health services. The purpose of the present paper was to review empirical research on the structure, process and outcome of liaison mental health servic...

Conclusions. The CANE questionnaire addresses many different areas of need and is able to identify unmet needs that might otherwise go undetected. The CANE could be used therefore as part of the routine assessment of liaison psychiatric elderly patients on medical and surgical wards. Using the CANE may reduce the likelihood of readmission to hospital, the need for continuing care post discharge...

In October 2010, the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada and the American Heart Association released new guidelines for cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) [1][2] that were developed based on an extensive, evidence-based review of the resuscitation literature conducted by the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation [3]. The present article focuses on the highlights of the new paediat...

Prior to the commissioning of the Phase I redevelopment of Glasgow Royal Infirmary, the need for the development of a new type of resuscitation trolley had been identified by a liaison group consisting of medical, nursing and scientific staff which had been set up to collaborate on the selection and specification of clinical equipment. A design study involving the liaison group and the Product ...