Action checklist 1. Meet and discuss with colleagues, nurses and resuscitation trainers. Nurses are most important as they are the staff who make the most of these calls. 2. Use the attached 2222 PowerPoint presentation at meetings if you wish. 3. Discuss with patients groups / representatives if available 4. Discuss with / Send letter to Hospital Medical Director / Management (see Draft letter...

BACKGROUND Improving safety in care homes is becoming increasingly important. Care home residents typically have multiple physical and/or cognitive impairments, and adverse events like falls often lead to hospital attendance or admission. Developing a safety culture is associated with beneficial impacts on safety outcomes, but the complex needs of care home residents, coupled with staffing pres...

The research and practice literature was examined to determine whether community support programs are responsive to ethnocultural issues and to derive strategies for developing culturally relevant programming. Great variation exists across cultures in family practices, conceptions of mental illness, stigma attributed to mental illness, and expectations of the provider system. Ethnic minority cu...

BACKGROUND A range of studies has demonstrated the efficacy of the psychoactive Amazonian brew ayahuasca in addressing substance addiction. These have revealed that physiological and psychological mechanisms are deeply enmeshed. This article focuses on how interactive ritual contexts support the healing effort. The study of psychedelic-assisted treatments for addiction has much to gain from eth...

THE mechanism by which general anesthetics prevent consciousness remains unknown largely because the mechanism by which brain physiology produces consciousness is unexplained. But the two mysteries seem to share a critical feature—both consciousness and actions of anesthetic gases are mediated through extremely weak London forces (a type of van der Waals force) acting in hydrophobic pockets wit...

In distributed, dynamic networks and applications, such as Peer-to-Peer (P2P), users’ behaviour and quality of service/quality of experiment are known to influence each other. In worst cases, these mutual influences could lead the system to crash. We propose a novel approach to model relationships between users and QoS. It is based upon multiagent systems in order to study the impact of situate...

Complex software systems have become increasingly entwined in a wide variety of systems, such as critical infrastructure, industrial control medical devices, automobiles, airplanes, and spacecraft. Assuring the security safety, well other dependability concerns, availability, robustness, reliability, software-intensive remains among top priorities for governments providers services. Manufacture...