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Chris Hemsworth as Thor.
MOVIE REVIEW | 'THOR'

Have Golden Locks, Seeking Hammer

By A. O. SCOTT
"Thor," directed by Kenneth Branagh, is a programmed triumph of commercial calculation over imagination.
Mel Gibson and Jodie Foster in
MOVIE REVIEW | 'THE BEAVER'

Leave It to the Beaver to Do All the Talking

By MANOHLA DARGIS
A depressed toy manufacturer fails to commit suicide and begins communicating through a hand puppet. Nasty and brutish, the beaver owns the film.




From left, John Krasinski, Ginnifer Goodwin, Kate Hudson and Colin Egglesfield in Luke Greenfield's
MOVIE REVIEW | 'SOMETHING BORROWED'

New Lovers and the Old Triangle

By A. O. SCOTT
"Something Borrowed" is a comedy of marriage and a love triangle made up of Ginnifer Goodwin, Kate Hudson and Colin Egglesfield.
Bruno Odar in
MOVIE REVIEW | 'OCTUBRE'

The Difference a Baby Can Make

By MANOHLA DARGIS
"Octubre," a Peruvian film, shows how life changes for a shabby moneylender in Lima when an infant is left on his bed.
Robert Loggia, at the head of the table, makes a point in
MOVIE REVIEW | 'HARVEST'

The Family That Stays Together Frays Together

By STEPHEN HOLDEN
Robert Loggia stars as the dying patriarch of a Connecticut clan in "Harvest," directed by Marc Meyers.
Loretta Devine, left, plays a postal worker and future mother-in-law to Paula Patton's lawyer in
MOVIE REVIEW | 'JUMPING THE BROOM'

2 Families Put Asunder Just Before the 'I Dos'

By A. O. SCOTT
In "Jumping the Broom" a nuptial weekend is the backdrop for a trousseau full of revelations revolving around class conflict between the two bridal families.
Charlie Cox in
MOVIE REVIEW | 'THERE BE DRAGONS'

A Guess-the-Flavoring Game, and Then Along Comes a War

By STEPHEN HOLDEN
"There Be Dragons," Roland Joffé's new film, is the story of a lifelong rivalry as well as a Spanish Civil War saga.
Walter Jakob plays Z, one of three main characters in
MOVIE REVIEW | 'EXTRAORDINARY STORIES'

H Plus X Plus Z, Formula for 3 Intersecting Lives

By PAUL BRUNICK
"Extraordinary Stories," by the Argentine director Mariano Llinás, is a contagiously playful and thrillingly inventive work.
Kat Dennings and Josh Lucas in
MOVIE REVIEW | 'DAYDREAM NATION'

Picking Up Extra Credit, and Teacher, After School

By STEPHEN HOLDEN
"Daydream Nation" is Mike Goldbach's directorial debut, but the film belongs to its protagonist, Kat Dennings, who portrays a precocious teenager with a snide edge of defiance.
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Book Review


On the Cover of Sunday's Book Review

'The Boy in the Moon'

By IAN BROWN
Reviewed by ROGER ROSENBLATT
In this memoir, the journalist Ian Brown tries to understand his profoundly disabled son.

'The Year We Left Home'

By JEAN THOMPSON
Reviewed by JONATHAN DEE
In this sympathetically witty novel, which spans 30 years, a Midwestern family struggles for economic and emotional stability.
Friedrich A. Hayek

'The Constitution of Liberty'

By F. A. HAYEK
Reviewed by FRANCIS FUKUYAMA
The definitive edition of the economist Friedrich A. Hayek's monumental work, which argues that no central government can know enough to organize society as efficiently as the market.

'Netsuke'

By RIKKI DUCORNET
Reviewed by MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM
As his wife chases after beauty, the narrator of this novel, an aging psychoanalyst, obsessively sleeps with his patients.
The Soviets distributed this picture of Shostakovich, said to be at work on his Seventh Symphony under siege in Leningrad in 1941.

'Music for Silenced Voices: Shostakovich and His Fifteen Quartets'

By WENDY LESSER
Reviewed by EDWARD ROTHSTEIN
A critic speculates about what Shostakovich was really expressing in his string quartets.

'The Silent Land'

By GRAHAM JOYCE
Reviewed by KEVIN BROCKMEIER
After an avalanche, a couple on a skiing holiday notice changes to their existence, in this eerie fantasy of isolation, marital love and the afterworld.
George Washington directing field workers at Mount Vernon.

'Founding Gardeners'

By ANDREA WULF
Reviewed by PAULA DEITZ
A history of the founding father's passion for agriculture and botany, and how those pursuits reflected their political ideas.
Mohamed ElBaradei during the Tahrir square protests in January.

'The Age of Deception'

By MOHAMED ELBARADEI
Reviewed by LESLIE H. GELB
Mohamed ElBaradei, the Nobel prize-winning former director of the International Atomic Energy Agency and a major player in the revolution in Egypt, describes his quest to stem the atomic tide.

'The Great Night'

By CHRIS ADRIAN
Reviewed by LAURA MILLER
Chris Adrian's novel is a loose retelling of "A Midsummer Night's Dream," set in contemporary San Francisco.
Spiritual guide: The Cambridge philosopher Henry Sidgwick, circa 1890.

'The Immortalization Commission'

By JOHN GRAY
Reviewed by CLANCY MARTIN
John Gray, a philosopher, explores a century or so of investigations into immortality by mystically inclined intellectuals.
Paul Allen and his business partner in 1982.

'Idea Man'

By PAUL ALLEN
Reviewed by GARY RIVLIN
The Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen charts his uneasy relationship with Bill Gates during the software giant's early years.
Danzy Senna

'You Are Free: Stories'

By DANZY SENNA
Reviewed by POLLY ROSENWAIKE
Race, class and gender affect the identity struggles of the nuanced characters in Danzy Senna's story collection.

'This Life Is in Your Hands'

By MELISSA COLEMAN
Reviewed by MEGAN MAYHEW BERGMAN
A memoir of a family sundered by their return to the land in the 1960s.
CHILDREN'S BOOKS

'Hooray for Amanda and Her Alligator!'

By MO WILLEMS
Reviewed by PAMELA PAUL
Mo Willems's latest picture book features a little girl and her stuffed animal. But in contrast to his Knuffle Bunny series, this one is told from the toy's point of view.
ESSAY

Selling Books by Day, Writing Them by Night

By J. COURTNEY SULLIVAN
Once a bookseller, always a bookseller, say some published authors who haven't quit their day jobs.
CRIME

The Departed

By MARILYN STASIO
Mystery novels by Thomas Perry, Belinda Bauer, Chris Knopf and the late Robert B. Parker.

Book Review Podcast

Featuring Ian Brown on his memoir, "The Boy in the Moon"; and Leslie Gelb on Mohamed ElBaradei and nuclear disarmament.
ArtsBeat

Legislator Apologizes for Calling Neil Gaiman a 'Weasel'

New Study Finds Gender Bias in Children's Books

The Godfather, Before He Was

Albert Brooks, the comedian and filmmaker - and now novelist - in Beverly Hills, Calif.

A Comedian Laughs All the Way to Dystopia

By DAVE ITZKOFF
The comedian Albert Brooks, who publishes his debut comic novel, "2030," next Tuesday, finds humor amid misery.
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Potencia relativa de bupivacaína, levobupivacaína y ropivacaína en anestesia espinal para neonatos


Potencia relativa de bupivacaína, levobupivacaína y ropivacaína en anestesia espinal para neonatos.
Relative potencies of bupivacaine, levobupivacaine, and ropivacaine for neonatal spinal anaesthesia.
Frawley G, Smith KR, Ingelmo P.
Department of Paediatric Anaesthesia and Pain Management, Royal Children's Hospital, Anaesthesia Research, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia. geoff.frawley@rch.org.au
Br J Anaesth. 2009 Nov;103(5):731-8. Epub 2009 Sep 18.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Comparing the relative potency of new local anaesthetics such as levobupivacaine and ropivacaine with bupivacaine by the minimum local analgesic concentration model has not been described for neonatal spinal anaesthesia. This information is important to compare agents and to determine the most effective spinal dose. METHODS: We performed a two-stage study to determine the ED50, the ED95, and the relative analgesic potency of isobaric spinal bupivacaine, levobupivacaine, and ropivacaine in infants. In phase 1, 81 infants were randomized in a Dixon-Massey study to describe the minimum local analgesic dose. In phase 2, a further 70 patients were randomly allocated to receive spinal anaesthesia with doses in the upper dose-response range to define the ED95. RESULTS: The ED50 doses for bupivacaine, levobupivacaine, and ropivacaine were estimated by isotonic regression to be 0.30 mg kg(-1) [95% confidence interval (CI) 0.25-0.43], 0.55 mg kg(-1) (0.50-0.64), and 0.50 mg kg(-1) (0.43-0.64), respectively. The ED(95), respectively, of bupivacaine, levobupivacaine, and ropivacaine were 0.96 mg kg(-1) (95% CI 0.83-0.98), 1.18 mg kg(-1) (1.05-1.22), and 0.99 mg kg(-1) (0.73-1.50). The relative potency ratios at the ED(50) were bupivacaine:levobupivacaine 0.55 (95% CI 0.39-0.88), bupivacaine:ropivacaine 0.61 (0.41-1.00), and levobupivacaine:ropivacaine 1.09 (0.84-1.45). CONCLUSIONS: Appropriate doses for infant spinal anaesthesia are 1 mg kg(-1) of isobaric 0.5% bupivacaine and ropivacaine and 1.2 mg kg(-1) of isobaric 0.5% levobupivacaine.

Atentamente
Dr. Enrique Hernández-Cortez 
Anestesiología y Medicina del Dolor
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Revista de Psiquiatría y Salud Mental

ISSN: 1888-9891 
Periodicidad Trimestral (4 números al año)

Volumen 04, Número 01, Enero 2011 - Marzo 2011

Revisiones

Teoría de la mente, reconocimiento facial y procesamiento emocional en la esquizofrenia

Rodríguez Sosa, Juana Teresa; Acosta Ojeda, Miguel; Rodríguez Del Rosario, Luciano

Eficacia y riesgos de la combinación de psicofármacos con el tratamiento electroconvulsivo

Sanz-Fuentenebro, Francisco Javier; Vidal Navarro, Ignacio; Ballesteros Sanz, Daniel; Verdura Vizcaíno, Ernesto
 
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