PURPOSE OF REVIEW We outline and discuss recent work on auditory displays, covering both auditory alarms that indicate technical or physiological threshold levels and informative auditory displays that provide a continuous awareness of a patient's well being. RECENT FINDINGS The struggle to make auditory alarms informative proceeds with work on two fronts. In one approach, researchers are dev...

A grey and cold day in January 1983 the train rolled out from Karlstad’s central station toward oslo, norway, where work waited. A rounded, brown bearded man came down the aisle followed by a slender fellow with a guitar case. Are these seats free, he asked? sure, please sit down. I continued reading my newspaper. Is there anything about me in that paper? I lowered the paper surprised by the qu...

have rendered a fine service in presenting us with such a carefully prepared resume of Starling's work and their devoted work will receive wide acclamation. The reviewer's only criticism is the lack of more biographical information on the main characters in this drama of experimental investigation. Sidney Patterson for example was working as a general practitioner in a small wheat town in Austr...

Even though hand hygiene in hospitals is currently considered as the standard of clinical care, the history behind this practice is relatively recent. The practice of hand hygiene among health care workers was first proposed by Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis (1818-1865). He was an assistant professor of Medicine, at a time when puerperal fever was a common cause of maternal mortality. While working a...

CONTRIBUTING REVIEWERS The editors of BMC Anesthesiology would like to thank all our reviewers who have contributed to the journal in Volume 12 (2012).

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CORRECTION article Front. Med., 18 September 2023Sec. Intensive Care Medicine and Anesthesiology Volume 10 - 2023 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fmed.2023.1281829

word count: 239 Total text word count: 3790 Supported by a grant of the Department of Anesthesiology and Resuscitation, Shinshu University (KFW) and a faculty grant of the University Lübeck (KFW). Topic: Hemostasis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology * Both authors contributed equally to the study # Present address: Department of Anesthesiology and Resuscitation, Shinshu University, Japan § Presen...

Quality Improvement in Anesthesiology Anesthesiology is the medical specialty that provides anesthesia during surgery and other invasive procedures, in critical care, and in management of acute and chronic pain. Through its core expertise of keeping patients safe and comfortable during invasive or painful procedures, anesthesiology enables the activities of every surgical discipline and an incr...