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Prophylactic tracheostomy in aged and poor risk general surgical patients

The most common postoperative complications are those involving respiration, and they are especially dangerous to patients classified as poor risks because of age or other handicaps. Among the 11 patients whose histories are given, some who were nearly moribund from respiratory difficulties were saved by tracheostomy; others made good recoveries from major surgery under conditions that would have been hopeless without the help afforded by prophylactic tracheostomy. If this possibility is foreseen, an orderly procedure can be carried out in the operating room instead of desperate measures on the ward. Scrupulous care of the tracheostomy is essential; this includes aseptic precautions, humidification of the inhaled air or oxygen, and the systematic but gentle use of suction to aspirate accumulating mucus. © 1959, American Medical Association. All rights reserved

Confederate Emancipation: Southern Plans to Free and Arm Slaves During the Civil War

Desperate Measures The Southern Plans of Emancipation Sparked by a proposal by Major General Patrick Cleburne in late 1863, Confederates spent the final year and half of the Civil War debating and eventually implementing plans to offer slaves freedom in return for military servi...

Prescription Drug Approval and Terminal Diseases: Desperate Times Require Desperate Measures

It is no surprise that the press, in exercising its traditional first amendment freedom, often discloses truthful information about individuals that those individuals would prefer to keep private. An inevitable tension exists between the public\u27s right to know and the individual\u27s right to be let alone.\u27 What is surprising, however, especially given the historic recognition of both a free press and individual privacy as rights fundamental to the preservation of American society, is that the privacy interests of the individual almost always lose. The prevalent rationale for this lopsided result is that the first amendment protects the values promoted by press freedom and that any infringement of these values consequently warrants the strictest scrutiny by the courts. The values promoted by privacy, on the other hand, are general liberty interests within the fifth and fourteenth amendments that, when threatened, deserve only due process balancing. \u27 Some legal scholars, therefore, have claimed that the public disclosure tort,\u27 which gives individuals a cause of action against a publisher of embarrassing private facts of no legitimate public interest, is facially invalid. Nevertheless, recent Supreme Court decisions reflect, and most scholars recognize, a constitutionally based privacy right, but suggest that the first amendment may give publishers of private truthful information a complete defense of privilege. The analytical premises of the Court\u27s first amendment model, however, do not necessitate that the Court always subordinate individual privacy to press freedom. Instead, these premises actually support a first amendment interest in protecting the privacy of the individual, thereby preserving the public disclosure tort remedy. Thus, cases concerning the public disclosure of private facts pose a difficult constitutional dilemma: courts must choose between two opposing claims, both of which arise not from conflicting constitutional provisions, but from the first amendment. As a result, the Court should balance these competing claims with equal scrutiny and on a level playing field. This Note re-evaluates the Court\u27s own model of the first amendment and shows that under its model, the Court errs when it summarily dismisses an individual\u27s privacy interest in favor of a publisher\u27s claim of first amendment privilege. If both claims arise from the same constitutional provision and both merit strict scrutiny, then the Court must accommodate both claims without denying either one its unique protection under the first amendment. Part II of this Note examines and criticizes the classic democratic model of the first amendment. Part III recommends amending the model to accommodate protection of individual privacy. Part IV then analyzes a particular application of the amended model to the Supreme Court\u27s recent excursion into this area in Florida Star v. B.J.F.\u270 Finally, Part V briefly assesses the state action concerns relating to the amended model proffered in this Note

Desperate Measures: How Teacher Preparation Programs can Engage and Retain Black Male Teacher Candidates

Black male teachers are less than two percent of all current teachers in the United States. However, there has been an effort to recruit and retain Black men into the teaching profession for a number of reasons. All student benefit when they have a Black male teacher. Black boys, in particular, have markedly higher test scores and improved discipline when they have a Black male teacher. Black male adults in educational settings is essential for enhancing Black boys’ academic and social development. There is a need for Black male teachers in education. Even with nationwide recruitment efforts like My Brother's Keeper, the numbers of Black male teacher remain small. Additionally, Black male teachers leave the profession at a higher rate than other subgroups. This paper will examine one teacher preparation program's effort to increase retention of Black males in the teacher preparation program and the teaching profession.&nbsp