Background: A quarter of all patients presenting to emergency departments are children.
Although there are several large, well-conducted studies on adults enabling accurate …

Long daytime and overnight shifts remain a major feature of working life for trainees in
anaesthesia. Over the past 10 years, there has been an increase in awareness and …

The tragic death of an anaesthetic trainee driving home after a series of night shifts
prompted a national survey of fatigue in trainee anaesthetists. This indicated that fatigue was …

A short cut review was carried out to establish whether levels of S-100b were predictive of
long-term disability after head injury. 200 papers were found using the reported searches, of …

Background: NICE guidelines for the management of head injury were published in June
2003. Their recommendations differ markedly from previous guidelines published by the …

Aims We aimed to measure the safety culture across a network of critical care units to
compare units, track temporal changes and to present easy to interpret information back to …

The effect of water exposure on the adhesion of an epoxy/polyamide lacquer to mild and
stainless steel substrates has been examined. Loss of adhesion is rapid, falling to steady …

3 Nieminen TH, Hagelberg NM, Saari TI, et al. Rifampin greatly reduces the plasma
concentrations of intravenous and oral oxycodone. Anesthesiology 2009; 110: 1371–8 4 …

The relationship between the voltage noise from a painted mild steel which was blistering
and from the subsequent corrosion of the substrate was investigated. It was evident from …

Medication harm is the greatest cause of preventable harm: about 6% of patients suffer
preventable harm and incidents related to drugs are the greatest cause, representing 25% of …