The principle aims of pre-hospital care are to preserve life, minimise complications resulting from injury and reduce pain and suffering (1).To achieve this, the pre-hospital practitioner should be confident in the safe use of a limited range of analgesic and sedative drugs (1,2). In this article, a summary of effective and safe techniques for analgesia and sedation in both the civilian and mil...

Sir William Read, Royal Ophthalmologist during the reign of Queen Anne (1702-17I4), who incidentally was unable to read or write (Guthrie, 1958), gave a choice description of the dangers of perforation in deep scleritis: 'For it is most certain that this horny membrane . . . by how much deeper the blister is hidden in the membrane . . . in danger to make an ulceration by breaking through the me...

An important premise of Natural Computing is that some form of computation goes on in Nature, and that computing capability has to be understood, modeled, abstracted, and used for different objectives and in different contexts. Therefore, it is necessary to propose a new language capable of describing and allowing the comprehension of natural systems as a union of computing phenomena, bringing ...

1 CRAAM, Escola de Engenharia, Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie, 01302-907 São Paulo, SP, Brazil 2 Instituto de Matemática e Estatı́stica, Universidade de São Paulo, 05508-090 São Paulo, SP, Brazil 3 Laboratório de Geotecnologias e CRAAM, Escola de Engenharia, Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie, São Paulo, SP, Brazil 4 Instituto de Ciência e Tecnologia, Universidade Federal do Estado de Sã...

Understanding the interaction between the response of a complex ecosystem to climate change and the protection of vulnerable wildlife species is essential for conservation efforts. In the Northwest Territories (Canada), the recent movement of the Mackenzie wood bison herd (Bison bison athabascae) out of their designated territory has been postulated as a response to the loss of essential habita...

P, Dentith H, Smith D. A concurrent outbreak of Barmah Forest and Ross River disease in Nhulunbuy, Northern Territory. Comm Dis Intell (Aust) 1992;16:110-1. 10. Broom AK, Mackenzie JS, Lindsay MD, Wright AE. Epidemiology of Murray Valley encephalitis and Kunjin viruses in Western Australia, 1980-89. Arbovirus Research in Australia 1989;5:14-8. CSIRO and Queensland Institute of Medical Research....

arst address deals with research and medical progress, and stresses the necessity for every medical lllftn, whether general practitioner or specialist to have ^?ine special line of "research constantly before him 0 keep his mentality keen and active. Reference is ttiade to Sir James Mackenzie's well known career, *l11 instance of a general practitioner who laid the ^'nidations of present-day ca...