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...FRANCISCO LIRIANO...
...in a hospital pre-op unit doing what he has done every week for more than three decades: administering an anesthetic to a patient headed for surgery. Miller served as an anesthesiologist in the Vietnam War and now chairs the department of anesthesia at the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine; it's hard to imagine someone with more experience or better credentials. Even so, he was taken by surprise when he gave a low dose of a moderate sedative called midazolam, designed to put the patient into a semiconscious state, somewhere between sleep and wakefulness...
Since each patient's response to anesthesia can be different, as San Francisco's Miller was reminded last summer, the guidelines are intended to ensure that whoever administers the drugs should be able to rescue a patient from one level of sedation deeper than the level intended (see chart). "Our job is flying in bad weather," says Zapol. "A fair number of hearts stop in operating rooms, or people stop breathing. The key thing in training is to make people confident at resuscitation...
...comeback story, however, has had an ironic wrinkle: the U.S., where Esprit first became famous, has been left out. Though now its main offices are in Hong Kong and Germany, Esprit was founded in San Francisco in 1968, and by the 1980s its brightly colored knits and shirts were must-haves for any American teen. But today sales in North America account for only about 3% of revenues. Even Krogner admits that the brand "has lost its relevance" to the American consumer...
...funding opportunities. In addition, our institute recently established a training program at 16 state institutions that will train 169 young researchers, including predoctoral, postdoctoral and clinical fellows, many of whom have come from out of state or from overseas. ZACH W. HALL, PRESIDENT CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE FOR REGENERATIVE MEDICINE San Francisco...