Atoms or elementary particles themselves are not real; they form a world of potentialities or possibilities rather than one of things or facts.  -Werner Heisenberg The uncertainty principle states, there is a limit to the precision with which the position and momentum of  any subatomic particle can be measured. Their location and velocity can only […]

Subarachnoid Hemorrhage (SAH) is one of the more angst-inducing pathologies an Emergency Physician faces on a daily basis. A disease for which we have a well established diagnostic pathway. The strategy of non-contrast CT followed by a lumbar puncture (LP) has been showed to effectively eliminate the risk of SAH (1). And yet there is […]

In a properly automated and educated world, then, machines may prove to be the true humanizing influence. It may be that machines will do the work that makes life possible and that human beings will do all the other things that make life pleasant and worthwhile.   -ISAAC ASIMOV   The term Cyborg, short for […]

Blood pressure is one of the least understood and yet most intervened on metrics in modern medicine. Though we have found meager success in controlling blood pressure over the long-term (1,2) our attempts to translate these benefits to the acute setting of the emergency room have not been met with improved short-term outcomes. Traditionally acutely […]

Well before Han Solo was frozen in carbonite, before Sigourney Weaver crossed galaxies in cryostasis, or Walt Disney was cryopreserved, we have been fascinated by the stasis-like powers of hypothermia.  Given this enthusiasm, we most likely would have reacted with just as much vigor even if the initial trials of hypothermia for out of hospital […]