“Inferior MI” by ECG . . . “Anterior MI” by echocardiography . How common is that ?
Surprises are hall-marks of medical science . The cardiologists do get it , in enough doses from echo labs on a regular basis ! . One such thing is the total ECG-ECHO myocardial territorial mismatch following a STEMI . Human myocardial segments are divided by cardiologists by 17 segments by echocardiogram . Long before echo came into vogue , electro-cardiologists divided the heart electrically into three zones to localise MI . (Anterior , inferior and the poorly defined entity lateral walls* ) .Inferior and posterior segments are almost used interchangeably. So , when we h...
Source: Dr.S.Venkatesan MD - January 14, 2013 Category: Cardiology Authors: drsvenkatesan Tags: Cardiology - Electrophysiology -Pacemaker cardiology -ECG Cardiology -unresolved questions cardiology-Anatomy Cardiology-Coronary artery disese Clinical cardiology echocardiography discrepancies in wall motion defects ecg echo correlation Source Type: blogs
James M. Buchanan (1919–2013), Friend of Liberty
James A. Dorn
The passing of Nobel laureate economist James M. Buchanan, one of the greatest proponents of limited government and free markets in the 20th century, leaves a giant void at a time when Western democracies are expanding the size and scope of government and threatening the future of liberty.
The news of Buchanan’s death on January 9, at the age of 93, has saddened all who knew and respected him. His vast body of work, however, will live on and remind us that liberty under a just rule of law, or what F. A. Hayek called “the constitution of liberty,” is essential for the emergence of a spontaneous market o...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 10, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: James A. Dorn Source Type: blogs
Are autistic people lost in space?
Inone short paper, Elizabeth Pellicano and colleagues claim to demolish Simon Baron Cohen ' ssystemizing account of autism. They also conclude that autistics ' strong visual search andprobabilisticlearningabilities fail in large-scale space, ergo in the real world.Thepress release starts by declaring that autistic children " lack visual skills required for independence " and does not exaggerate the claims in the paper, which merit a lot of scrutiny. So bear with me, this is not going to be short. First what they did (and didn ' t do), then what they found, then what it means.1. What did they do? And what didn ' t they do?P...
Source: The Autism Crisis - January 4, 2011 Category: Child Development Source Type: blogs
