The policy and politics of emerging academic-service partnerships.

The type of traditional relationships and behaviors of academe and service no longer match the needs of an emerging and reforming health care system. Rather, the relationships required for the evolving health care system involve a cooperative and collaborative partnership. Models of the "Traditional Professional Nurse Career Trajectory" and the "Shared, Career-long Professional Nurse Formation" are contrasted.

Anaesthesia in elderly patients with neurodegenerative disorders: special considerations.

Neurodegenerative diseases are increasingly common in elderly patients, who present a particular anaesthetic challenge. The majority of people over the age of 70 years have some degree of cerebral atrophy. The pathogenesis of neurodegenerative diseases is due to alterations in the transport, degradation and aggregation of proteins.