Excellent video on Central Banks, Quantitative Easing, interview with Mark Carney, and more.
Nice article in A&A dealing with wound infection risk of giving dexamethasone for nausea prophylaxis (4-12 mg). The following sentence confirms was we already knew: BMI and Smoking increase wound infection risk.
“Smoking (OR [95% CI]: 2.0 [1.3, 3.2], P = 0.003) and BMI (OR [95% CI]: 1.2 [1.1, 1.3], P = 0.0003) were the only significant predictors of wound complications in the multivariate model, whereas dexamethasone remained a nonsignificant predictor (OR [95% CI]: 0.7 [0.5, 1.1], P = 0.12).”
So how much more are we going to flog the SCIP protocols to try to ‘fix’ a problem we don’t control?
via A&A.
I’ve read numerous reviews now of users comparing and Android phone to an iPhone. They seem to focus mostly on the OS itself rather than the apps available for each and how those have changed over the last few years. When I had my Nexus One phone, most iOS apps I was used to using on my iPhone were simply not available for Android. This has changed.
I recently switched from an iPhone 4S to a Google Nexus 4–’just for fun’. Although I did miss iOS initially after several weeks I am now quite comfortable with my Android Nexus 4. The key? The apps I spent most of my time in on the 4S are also available for the Android phone. Those apps, in no particular order, are Google Chrome, Medequations, Fidelity, Evernote, Pocket, an RSS reader, and (of course) Word With Friends. All those apps function and appear nearly identically to their iOS counterpart.
I bought a carrier subsidy-free Nexus 4 for $350 whereas a full price iPhone would have cost twice that much–and I have wireless charging today instead of a hope for it sometime later in 2013
So while Google has done a great deal to improve the Android OS up to its’ current 4.2.2 from the version 1 that I used some years ago, the app makers are what make it possible to switch from one to the other fairly easily. Competition is good!
I figured out a very secure way to hold a reinforced endrotracheal tube in place in a tracheostomy stoma. Opsite!
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