As compared with epinephrine alone, the combination of vasopressin and epinephrine during advanced cardiac life support for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest does not improve outcome. (ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT00127907.)

Volume variables (TEDVI, ITBVI) are more useful indicators than pressure variables (CVP, PAOP) for assessment of EVLWI in septic patients with pulmonary edema.

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Andre Gache-Identity under the Force of History. How to make the same out of something different? The attempt to answer this is based on a study of the western part of the region inhabited by the Dogon in Mali. Dogon country is an 'inbetween'; around its edges, centralized states have, since the Late Middle Ages, evolved following a process of composition-decomposition -recomposition. The people living there originally came from these political formations. These peoples of various origins found, in this region, a location favorable to the defence of small units. Over time, this original plurality took the form of a solid, combative 'ethnie group' with a dual system of discourse. This group immediately produces, for itself and others, an explanatory discourse postulating its unity from its very origins. This postulate is a kind of law that is ail the more clearly formulated insofar as the origins are beyond control. During the 'night', the question of origins 'gives birth' to a 'secret' discourse, which, once decoded, helps us see into the obscurity of the social and political processes at work in this region's history.

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