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Harriet Page

JAMA. 1981;246(2):111-114.

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Critical care specialists from 24 countries—anesthesiologists, surgeons, pediatricians, and nurses—met in Washington, DC, recently to hear and see some 700 scientific papers and exhibits at the Third World Congress on Intensive and Critical Care Medicine. They gathered, ironically, at the Washington Hilton, where President Ronald Reagan had been shot earlier in the year. (Invited to address the meeting, Reagan, who was flying to his California ranch that weekend, instead sent a long telegram expressing "my deep appreciation and gratitude to you who so resolutely serve your fellow human beings.")

These were among the reports presented at the five-day meeting:

Coma. —

Studies with the coma scale she has developed (below, left) and which she believes has some noteworthy advantages over the Glasgow Coma Scale were described by Marialuisa Bozza-Marrubini, MD, an anesthesiologist at Ospedale Niguardo-Ca'Granda, in Milan, Italy.

Any classification system, she explained, is useful for improving general understanding of . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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