[Homicide and major mental disorder: what are the social, clinical, and forensic differences between murderers with a major mental disorder and murderers without any mental disorder?].

Objectives: To establish the social, clinical, and forensic differences between murderers suffering from a major mental disorder and murderers without any psychiatric disorder and, in particular, to compare their respective records of psychiatric symptoms and their respective relationship with their victims.

Method: We studied 210 forensic examinations of murderers, the offences related to the murders, and the social and clinical information collected from psychiatric court reports on persons convicted of homicide. Firstly, we identified the socio-demographic, clinical and criminological profiles of 210 murderers from which were distinguished murderers with major mental disorder.

[Homicide and psychosis: criminological particularities of schizophrenics, paranoiacs and melancholic. A review of 27 expertises].

Introduction: During the night of the 11 to 12 of December 2002, Mathieu X. 21 years old, convinced he was defending himself from evil human beings decapitated a nurse and an auxiliary nurse of the psychiatrist hospital. This crime, which received saturated media coverage, obviously raises questions about the dangerous and violent nature of the mentally ill, which can sometimes culminate in homicide.

Tympanic temperature and heart rate changes in firefighters during treadmill runs performed with different fireproof jackets.

Six well-trained firefighters performed six treadmill runs at 70% of the velocity at VO2max (Maximal aerobic velocity MAV = 13.2+/-0.3 km h(-1)).

Macroscopic hematuria as a presenting manifestation of oliguric acute tubular necrosis.

Macroscopic hematuria associated with acute renal failure usually results from glomerulonephritis or structural abnormalities (stones, tumors, or infections). Acute tubular necrosis is rarely associated with macroscopic hematuria in the absence of other genitourinary abnormalities. We describe a patient who presented with macroscopic hematuria, in whom only acute tubular necrosis could be identified as a causative factor.

[Continuous monitoring, in the adult, of arterial oxygen saturation during apnea following intubation].

Twenty ASA I or II patients were studied to assess the safety of oxygenation for 4 min prior to intubing, so as to prevent the hypoxaemia related to tracheal intubation. The arterialized capillary blood saturation (Spo2) was continuously monitored with a pulse oximeter Nellcor 100 equipped with a finger probe. Patients spontaneously breathed oxygen (FIO2 = 1) while anaesthesia was induced with pancuronium bromide, thiopentone and fentanyl.

[Accounting failures in public officials or notaries. Medico-legal approach].

Considering 11 cases of psychiatric expert reports in criminal cases, the author's aim is to describe the criminological aspects of offences by notaries, mainly swindle and breach of trust. It appears that can be found in this professional category, personality types already described for "closely acquainted", or business crooks, as well as four obviously pathological cases, coming within the provisions of article 64 of the criminal code. Beyond the fact that there is a specific pre-criminal situation: dealing with contracts, assets, funds etc.

[The curve of the intraventricular pressure-volume relationships is not mono-exponential].

The graphic and statistic investigations have let us to assert that the right ventricular P/V relationship's curve is characterized by two successive segments: linear and exponential respectively. We have proposed an interpretation based on Roach's and Burton's works. Interest of information about this curve is double: 1) it is a function of the ventricular cavity volume; 2) it gives a general idea about the mode of ventricular filling.

[Tension-volume relationship of the wall of the isolated right ventricle].

The variations of tension on the wall of the isolated right verticle have been observed on 18 dogs. The Tension/Volume curve we got can be superimposed to that obtained by pressures. The wall of the right ventricle itself (the radius of the curve in the cavity and the wall-thickness) seems to vary only with the changes in its tension in a rather small part of the curve.