Family physician Robert Thirsk, an original member of the Canadian Space Agency's astronaut program, will be part of the seven-member crew when the space shuttle Columbia lifts off from Florida's Kennedy Space Centre June 20. In this special report, the 1982 McGill graduate outlines some of the physiologic and materials-science ...

Practitioners of aerospace medicine are mindful of the environmental effects, particularly air pollution, caused by aviation and spaceflight operations. To an aerospace medicine specialist, the environment includes not only the air, water, and soil of the earth, but also the cabin milieu of aircraft and space vehicles where crews must ...

This field study examines the relationship between hospital executives' personality traits and both their perceptions of their subordinates' levels of skills and their level of trust in those subordinates. CEOs or senior executives of 37 acute care hospitals with at least 200 beds were surveyed. The high Nurturant manager did ...

There is no consensus on the management of infantile chronic subdural collections. Subdural tapping, craniotomy and removal of membranes, and shunting from the subdural space have all been used. We performed continuous external subdural drainage (CESD) as a step prior to subdural-peritoneal shunt placement in the management of infantile chronic ...

The spectrum of heat-related illnesses ranges from simple syncope to life-threatening heatstroke. Persons of all ages can be affected. Heat edema, heat cramps, heat syncope, and heat exhaustion respond readily to simple management techniques. Treatment of heatstroke must include aggressive cooling, adequate fluid and electrolyte repletion, maintenance of adequate cardiovascular ...

This study addressed the relationship between self-management (as measured by the Lifestyle Approaches Inventory, Williams, Moore, Pettibone, & Thomas, 1992) and personality types and indexes (as measured by the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, Myers & McCaulley, 1985) in a sample of 347 university students. Correlational analyses indicated that the self-management factor ...

The author served as Editor-in-Chief of this Journal from 1959 through 1980, a period which included two title changes and an explosion of information about aerospace medicine and related fields. He reviews the history of the Journal from its establishment in 1929 through the periods of growth during World War ...

Since April 1961, when Yuri Gagarin first orbited the earth about 270 astronauts (predominantly males) have lived in space. More than 90 percent of these astronauts were natives of the USA and the ex-USSR. In this commentary, the challenges confronting the discipline of space medicine are reviewed. These include, (1) ...

As the United States and its international partners prepare Space Station Freedom components and systems for operational readiness, and as the space medicine community expands its research efforts, the U.S. Air Force finds itself with little direct input into these endeavors. Due to fiscal and patient care commitments, the Air ...

During the Dark Ages following the fall of the Roman Empire, the Arabic world was instrumental in fostering the development of the sciences, including medicine. The quest for original manuscripts and their translation into Arabic reached its climax in the House of Wisdom in Baghdad, and the dissemination of the ...

X-ray cephalometric studies were carried out repeatedly in 92 individuals with unilateral cleft lip and palate at the age of 10 and 15 years with investigations of a possible restoration of a positive overjet in relation to the development of sagittal interalveolar relations. On the basis of this analysis was ...

The synaptonemal complex (SC) in the beetle Blaps cribrosa contains a highly organized central element (CE), two flanking lateral elements (LEs), and a number of regularly spaced transverse filaments (TFs) crossing the central region. The CE is built like a ladder with two longitudinal components running in parallel and a ...

The tibiofibular clear space, a commonly used parameter in assessing the reduction of the syndesmosis in the management of ankle injuries, its anatomic boundaries, and resultant diagnostic ramifications were evaluated. This interval is seen to reflect the posterior aspect of the distal tibiofibular relationship and to vary not only with ...

The development of the V2 rocket during World War II raised the possibility of manned spaceflight to the level of "serious consideration." Concepts of aviation medicine led to the specialty of space medicine. Projects Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, Skylab, and Apollo-Soyuz, and the Space Transportation System have helped us gain important ...

Positive relationships exist between medicine and religion. Three elements upon which religion and medicine interface are reverence and awe, power, and particularity. Implications of each of these areas and their pertinence in medical decision making are illustrated. Basic ethical issues are seen to rest on religious presuppositions, often unacknowledged. The ...

MEDLINE bibliographic files, or searches from MEDLINE, can now be downloaded to personal computers. The materials can then be input to an information manager package, such as SCI-MATE, as a personal library for future updates, sorting, searching, cross-referencing, and reports. The transcription of the downloaded material to the manager package ...

Four cases of low anterior resection without pelvic drainage are described. The outcome was unsatisfactory in three of the four patients. The role of pelvic drains and omentum in the management of the pelvic space following low anterior resection for rectal cancer is reviewed and discussed. Pelvic drains are required ...

Semai descriptions of their beliefs about health and disease vary from person to person. Moreover, at different times the same person expresses mutually incongruent beliefs. This amorphousness and fluidity merit analysis rather than neatening. This paper details Semai beliefs, loose ends and all, and suggests that their formal peculiarities are ...

Space medicine deals with the branch of research involved with the adaptation of humans to the unique environment of space. More than 100 people have traveled in space. The day will come when some human beings will spend all their time in space. Medical problems encountered in space, such as ...

We describe the design of a surgical equipment/instrumentation cart that provides accessibility, mobility, convenience, conservation of floor space, and efficient use of vertical air space. This multiple-shelf cart allows organization and coordination of multiple pieces of equipment. The attached working shelves replace the multiple Mayo stands and free up needed ...

The beginnings of space medicine are those of aviation medicine and involved, among many pioneers, Dr. Harry G. Armstrong and the Aeromedical Laboratory. Space Medicine has advanced in a short 23 years from arguments about man being capable of survival in space through animal and manned flights to flight durations ...

This article, the third in a series, begins to explain the detailed process of estimating space for various materials management functions. The first installment looked at planning overall concepts and provided a framework for articles to follow. The second concentrated on defining the physical components and their intra- and interdepartmental ...

A number of measurable speech characteristics reflect the emotional state and its influence upon the operator’s performance. The validity of acoustical and temporal measures of paralinguistic and semantic processes increases with the increase of motional activation. At lower activation levels the informational value of characteristics is mostly affected by linguistic ...

The influence of two management factors on the incidence and severity of leg abnormalities was studied in three experiments utilizing a total of 7200 male broiler chickens. Birds provided intermittent illumination (IL) had significantly fewer and less severe leg abnormalities than birds under continuous illumination. Broilers given 2.94 cm of ...

We have attempted in this chapter to familiarize the clinician with the management of spaces in the dentition. Understanding the etiology of the spaces will not only aid in the formulation of a proper treatment plan but also help in predicting the stability of the treatment results. A carefully designed ...

Government regulation is a source of many management headaches, but it has also broadened personnel's field of expertise (and consequent influence). According to Dr. Greenlaw, human resource practitioners would be well advised to learn their "strategy space boundaries" for complying with legislation, because it is this sort of pro-activity that ...

We may see from the foregoing account that British physicians have played a major part in the history of geriatric medicine. Other countries have no counterpart to J H Sheldon of Wolverhampton, whose work on the social medicine of old age was so fundamental, or George Adams of Belfast, to ...

The problem of extra space needed for a general practice has been temporarily solved by the use of a ;Portakabin'. While orthodox building methods are so frustratingly expensive, we must consider unconventional methods which allow us to gain space relatively quickly.

Some hard-to-reach patients behave more healthily in the short term if offered incentives such as shopping vouchers. Long term schemes are difficult to manage.

Managing expertly requires many qualities one of which is managing a personal brand. The manager must manage the brand with clarity, consistency, the right technologies, skillful human resources, and clear vision in order for the message to be heard and for effectiveness to soar. Where as technology is valuable it ...