The physical and bacteriological properties of disposable and non-disposable suction drainage units in the laboratory.
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Biomedical subjects
B J Britton
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Sedation of sheep and patas monkeys with ketamine.
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Does the fly matter? the CRACKPOT study in evidence based trout fishing. The Collaborative Randomised and Controlled Kennet Piscatorial Options Trail (CRACKPOT) Investigators.
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the importance of the type of dry fly (artificial floating fly) in catching trout (brown and rainbow) in an English chalkstream. SETTING: River Kennet, Berkshire. DESIGN: Five anglers on five separate occasions spent five hours using a randomly allocated fly from a sample of five types. PARTICIPANTS: Five anglers of considerable but varying experience, determination, and opinion. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Number, weight, and species of trout caught. RESULTS: One fly (Black Gnat) performed significantly worse than the others. The fly most successful in catching brown trout was the Cinnamon Sedge. CONCLUSION: The possible prolongation of doctors' leisure time consequent on the use of unproductive trout flies has resource implications for the NHS. Urgent funding of a definitive, large multiriver trial is needed.
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Inguinal hernia repair in England.
120,000 groin hernias are repaired every year in Britain by the 1,000 consultant general surgeons and their junior staff. Most of these are elective operation and the average patient stays in hospital for slightly less than a week. Some patients only present to the doctor when a complication of their hernia develops which requires an emergency operation. A few people prefer to live with truss. We must hope that the increasing safety of surgery and free health care will gradually eliminate both these latter two categories of patient.
Anesthesia, Local↗