Thursday 31 July 2008
Although it’s been a couple of years since my firm, MedPharma Partners has done consulting work in the hospitalist industry, I still keep my subscription to Today’s Hospitalist Magazine because I like its insights into the hospital environment. I read through the June issue today and found a piece entitled New thinking on resuscitation techniques. It discusses new guidelines that call for bystanders who see out-of-hospital cardiac arrests to focus on performing chest compressions and not bother with mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. The article speculates that these guidelines may soon have an impact on in-hospital resuscitation.
That’s the nocturnal Kakapo in the photograph on the right. The Kakapo probably recognizes the fruit it eats according to the fruit’s aroma. The Kakapo was one of the birds that was part of a recent research project that determined that birds likely have a much more developed sense of smell than was previously thought.