The community optometry workforce in Scotland: supporting sustainable eye care delivery.

Background: In early 2024, NHS Scotland published community optometrist workforce and activity data at a national level for the first time in the UK. These data are now over two years old, and anecdotal reports suggest changes amongst optometrists' work-patterns post-pandemic. To identify if that data continues to be reflective of the community optometrist workforce, the aim of this paper is to provide equivalent data for 2022 and 2023.

The influence of client socioeconomic status on psychotherapists' attributional biases and countertransference reactions.

Clinical reaction related to client socioeconomic status has not been adequately researched, yet socioeconomic status can profoundly affect psychotherapist perceptions of a client's presenting concerns, symptom severity, and prognosis. Using an online national survey, this study examined the influence of client socioeconomic status on psychotherapist cognitive attributions and countertransference reactions (N = 141). Results revealed no significant differences in cognitive attributions based on socioeconomic status.

Errors in retinal thickness measurements obtained by optical coherence tomography.

Objective: To report the frequency and severity of optical coherence tomography (OCT) retinal thickness measurement errors and to describe parameters that predict these errors.

Design: Observational case series.

Participants: Two hundred consecutive patients undergoing OCT imaging.

Advances in monitoring in intensive care: continuous mixed venous oxygen saturation and right ventricular ejection fraction.

Direct cardiorespiratory measurements and the use of optimum values to guide therapy have been associated with improved survival in a number of conditions causing critical illness. Increasingly sophisticated monitoring that provides more accurate and reproducible assessment of the cardiorespiratory system at the bedside is pivotal to this better outcome. The inclusion of fibreoptic filaments and fast response thermistors in pulmonary artery catheters makes possible the continuous monitoring of mixed venous oxygen saturation and the measurement of right ventricular ejection fraction.