Consultant Editor Research Articles

New Initiatives at Journal of Clinical Oncology

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CCS – between a rock and a hard place?

AbstractFor the past decade and a half, CO2 has been stored underground successfully, and scientists are becoming increasingly confident that carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS) can work at the required scale. But many people are still not convinced about its viability and are worried about costs. Andrew Chadwick, Consultant Editor, considers what needs to be done to reassure the public and the investment community

What does the tobacco control plan mean for school nurses?

The Government has recently published the Tobacco Control Plan for England, which was announced in the Public Health White Paper. BJSN’s consultant editor provides an overview and looks at how this could influence school nurse practice in smoking prevention and cessation.

Can apprenticeships provide an alternative pathway?

In a recent Career Development article published in the JPP ( Howson, 2011 ), Alan Howson opened our eyes to the concept of emergency care apprenticeships and posed the question; can the apprenticeship route provide an alternative pathway to paramedic? This is an interesting question and one that should be considered carefully because the consequences of the paramedic profession making a mistake in terms of the future education of its registrants could prove to be hugely damaging to patients and the profession. Here, Pete Gregory, Consultant Editor, JPP and Senior Lecturer in Paramedic Practice, Coventry University, discusses this in more depth.

A new mass movement for social change

With the official launch this month of Action For Happiness, British Journal of Wellbeing's Consultant Editor, Kevin Gournay, contemplates the potential impact of the new movement

Circulating Forms: The Jingo Poem at the Height of Empire and Beyond

Research Article| March 01 2011 Circulating Forms: The Jingo Poem at the Height of Empire and Beyond Elleke Boehmer Elleke Boehmer University of Oxford elleke.boehmer@ell.ox.ac.uk Elleke Boehmer is the professor of world literature in English at the University of Oxford and consultant editor of the Oxford Studies in Postcolonial Literatures Series. She is the author of the world best-seller Colonial and Postcolonial Literature: Migrant Metaphors (Oxford University Press, 1995, 2005), of the non-fiction studies Empire, the National and the Postcolonial, 1890-1920 (Oxford University Press, 2002) and of Stories of Women: Gender and Narrative in the Postcolonial Nation (Manchester University Press, 2005), and the biography Nelson Mandela (Oxford University Press, 2008). She has published four widely praised novels, Screens again the Sky (short-listed David Higham Prize, [Bloomsbury, 1990]), An Immaculate Figure (Bloomsbury, 1993), Bloodlines (short-listed Sanlam Prize, [David Philip Publishers, 2000]), and Nile Baby (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2008), as well as the acclaimed edition of Robert Baden-Powell's Scouting for Boys (Martino Fine Books, 2004), and the anthology Empire Writing (Oxford University Press, 1998). Sharmilla and Other Portraits, her first short story collection, was out in May 2010 (Jacana Media). Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google English Language Notes (2011) 49 (1): 11–27. https://doi.org/10.1215/00138282-49.1.11 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Elleke Boehmer; Circulating Forms: The Jingo Poem at the Height of Empire and Beyond. English Language Notes 1 March 2011; 49 (1): 11–27. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00138282-49.1.11 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search Books & JournalsAll JournalsEnglish Language Notes Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Copyright © 2011 Regents of the University of Colorado2011 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Editorial Note from Dr. Robert A. C. (BOB) Stewart, Editor, Social Behavior and Personality: An International Journal

Starting a New Year and new volume for 2011, we are happy to feature an integrative/heuristic paper from one of our Consulting Editors, Professor Harry C. Triandis.

Hope but little glory

According to Oscar Wilde a second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. David Cameron and Andrew Lansley have lots of hope but not much experience. The first of April 2011 marks the 37th anniversary of the first NHS reorganization. Can anyone tell me the number of reorganizations there have been since then? One of my specialist fields is the history of the NHS, yet even I no longer know. There have been so many since 1974 that they are now all but uncountable. Will Cameron’s reforms work? If history is any guide they certainly will. After all, thanks to the dedication and skill of NHS managers, all the others have been made to work. The real question is not whether Cameron’s reforms will achieve something, but whether the result will be something better than what went before. Handing GPs the key to the NHS cash box will certainly prove to be a poisoned chalice for GPs. Choosing to fund service A is always a popular move, but when the cost of that choice is not funding service B then the complaints soon start flooding in. GPs will quickly discover that their GP colleagues are just as hateful as NHS bureaucrats when their own favoured purchasing proposals get ditched in favour of someone else’s. The underlying issue is that there are rarely genuinely ‘right’ or ‘best’ purchasing decisions. Only reasonable and unreasonable ones. And what constitutes ‘reasonable’ is subjective and therefore open to argument—as GPs will discover to their dismay. Handling cash however also poses other, more worrying, risks. GPs have a personal and direct interest in what services are provided. They are in favour of better community-based services—no a bad thing in itself, but since better community services usually means less work for GPs there will surely be a, perhaps unconscious, temptation to spend money on services which indirectly reduce GPs workload rather than on services which genuinely improve overall patient care. And worse. Some GPs could use the new system to divert NHS cash into their own pockets. This will not necessary be illegal, or even a bad thing. But if GPs extend their own services for extra pay, or to set up their own private healthcare businesses, it will certainly be seen as a very bad thing indeed. As for contracting-out hospital care to the private sector: it is not a mad idea. At least not in principle. David Cameron is surely right in saying that patients could not care less about who the provider is—only that they are being treated without charge. The concept is surely worth a punt. Not least since most NHS care— provided by GPs, dentists, high-street chemists and optometrists, has been successfully provided by the private sector since the NHS was founded. Health care managers may at least find that a new life in the private sector allows them to actually manage, rather than being bound hand and mouth by NHS red tape. Have Cameron and Co. found the magic formula that has eluded so many others down decades? Those that forget their history are condemned to repeat it. Those who do not like this NHS reform need only wait—another one will surely be coming along soon. Editor Alex Falconer Consultant Editor Philip Housden dEsign ExECutivE Peter Constantine Publishing dirECtor Adrian Johnston assoCiatE PublishEr Peter Black businEss managEr Christopher Riley ProduCt nEws Rachel McElhinney managing dirECtor Mark Allen

Winners, and, erm, winners

In a statement last month, the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) said it would explore the private healthcare sector amid concerns that competition and patient choice are being stifled. Sonya Branch, OFT senior director of services and public markets, said: ‘We are keen to establish whether patients and buyers of private healthcare services, including the NHS, are getting the full benefit of choice and competition.’ Laing & Buisson estimate that the UK private healthcare market is worth £5.6 billion a year. The fact that this is a profitable industry might be deduced from the proportion of private capital that is funding healthcare provider chains; the purchase of UK private hospital groups by overseas investors; profitability of insurers and of course the earning potential of consultants. So what might the OFT find when it asks its four questions? First, are there restrictions on the ability of consultants to practice? On one level, there jolly well should be as patient safety is paramount: only consultants that are appropriately accredited can join the medical society of any private hospital group, or charge insurers for treatment of their patients. On another level, the NHS consultant contract binds consultants to their main employer, particularly when it is an acute foundation trust, such that there is limited scope for establishing new innovative provision. But outside of contracted time, consultants can and do practice from more than one private hospital, even where these providers may be in competition with one another. Second, is the concentration of providers too great? Yes. The market is dominated by H5—the five biggest groups which account for 80 per cent of private hospitals and 85 per cent of all private hospital beds. Recent experience tells us that the smaller independents get swallowed up when they come to market, the most recent example being Abbey, purchased by BMI late last year. Third, are there barriers to entry for new competitors? Yes. Capital requirements, driven in the main by quality concerns, make it expensive to join the party. But there does remain a wide range of smaller providers, perhaps not so hidebound by expensive fixed sites, which are developing single specialty solutions, often characterized by increased flexibility over location, time of service and with increased use of IT. For these providers it is the insurer networks that form the biggest and, perhaps, least transparent barrier. Fourth, do consumers exercise choice? We all know how people become ‘patients’ when faced with the medical professional. Most commonly, choice is exercised under the clear direction of their doctor—whether this is asking the GP about consultant referral, or preference for the private hospital where a treatment will take place. So is competition and choice being stifled? The industry is clearly characterised by concentration in a small group of powerful players, whether this is the hospital providers, or the five main insurers that dominate the market. Both providers and insurers appear to be robustly profitable, and consultant earnings remain buoyant, too. The upshot is that consumer prices in the UK are allegedly relatively high, both insurance premiums and also self-pay. So, the OFT might find that there is competition, but with winners and, erm, winners. BJHCM acting Editor Peter Black SUB Editor Carole Mongin-Bulewski conSUltant Editor Philip Housden dESign ExEcUtivE Peter Constantine PUBliShing dirEctor Adrian Johnston aSSociatE PUBliShEr Peter Black BUSinESS managEr Christopher Riley ProdUct nEwS Rachel McElhinney managing dirEctor Ben Allen

Erratum to: Peter Bela Fodor, M.D., F.A.C.S., Medical Editor, Elizabeth Sadati Bernard, Editorial Consultant, Bill Winn, B.S., M.S., F.A.M.I., Medical Illustrator, and Rex M. Oppenheimer, Coordinating Author: Be Your Best: A Comprehensive Guide to Aesthetic Plastic Surgery

Erratum to: Peter Bela Fodor, M.D., F.A.C.S., Medical Editor, Elizabeth Sadati Bernard, Editorial Consultant, Bill Winn, B.S., M.S., F.A.M.I., Medical Illustrator, and Rex M. Oppenheimer, Coordinating Author: Be Your Best: A Comprehensive Guide to Aesthetic Plastic Surgery

Entering My Final Year As Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Clinical Oncology

After the 2010 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting, I knew why Mark Twain felt compelled to write “The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.” It was wonderful for so many people to congratulate me on a job well done and for them to inquire about what I would do with my time. The time to answer that question has not yet come. Perhaps a few words of explanation are required. I was appointed by Joseph S. Bailes, who was then president of ASCO, in early 2000 after a search by the publications committee, and I assumed the role of Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Clinical Oncology (JCO) at the 2001 ASCO Annual Meeting. The ASCO bylaws limit the term of the editors of ASCO journals to a maximum of two 5-year terms, and my tenure will end a year from now. The past 9 years have been a great honor and pleasure for me, and I am glad to have a 10th year to lead JCO. To ensure continuity of JCO, a similar search was completed in the fall of last year, and Stephen A. Cannistra, a former associate editor and a current consultant editor for JCO’s Biology of Neoplasia section, was selected as the fourth Editor-in-Chief of JCO, with his term starting at the 2011 ASCO Annual Meeting. During the next year, we will be working together to continue to improve JCO as the irreplaceable resource for oncology that it has become. JCO is a much more complex enterprise than it was a decade ago, and much work will be required to make next year’s transition as seamless as possible. Everyone involved is dedicated to making my 10th year as Editor-in-Chief as productive as possible in recognition of the fact that the readers of JCO deserve nothing less. Meanwhile, as I reported to the ASCO Board of Directors at its recent meeting, JCO has never been stronger. Submissions steadily increase, and the quality of the manuscripts is better than ever. Given the limitations in space, the increase in submissions has inevitably led to a more stringent acceptance rate as we strive to keep the quality of JCO high and keep it competitive with the best medical journals. In recognition of our success, we learned just after the 2010 ASCO Annual Meeting that JCO’s impact factor increased again to 17.793— more than a 4-point increase during the last 4 years. JCO remains innovative among its peers with translated editions in many languages, the broadest possible range of published topics, and the ability to seek improvements in coverage of the entire landscape of oncology. As an example of this, we have increased the number of articles published on the subject of hematologic malignancies by more than 30% in the last 2 years, attracting a new audience of international authors and readers. The future looks just as bright or even brighter as the editors and I look ahead to and plan for the coming year. Changes will include making randomized phase II and III protocols available to readers, podcasting, continuing medical education credits for our dedicated reviewers, and many other enhancements. The only aspect of JCO that should not change is the continued publication of that which is new, true, and practice changing in clinical oncology.

Understanding the impact of kidney disease

It gives me great pleasure to introduce this edition of the JRN to you, my first as Consultant Editor working alongside Sarah Mackie. I take on the mantle of responsibility from Annette Davies and I wish to take this opportunity to thank her for her sterling work in establishing the journal. Together with Sarah, Annette has driven the agenda forward throughout its inaugural year so that the journal reflects all aspects of the management of patients with kidney failure through the eyes of the multidisciplinary team.

The New Circulation Research

“Wisdom is to know that we don’t know.” — —Socrates, 469–399 BC “The first thing we must do when seeking knowledge is to reject the presumptuousness of knowing, for it is not possible to learn that which we claim to know.” — —Epictetus, 55–135 “Doubt is the beginning of knowledge.” — —Rene Descartes, 1596–1650 “All that we know is infinitely less than all that still remains unknown.” — —William Harvey, 1578–1657 In retrospect, it was inevitable. Originally conceived along the lines of the standard inaugural message of a new editorial team (ie, a brief, general statement that is traditionally published at the time of the editorial transition), this article has gradually grown in scope and depth, morphing into what has become a veritable manifesto—a comprehensive account of my vision for Circulation Research . This metamorphosis was the result of my reflections on some basic questions: What is the purpose of an inaugural editorial? Do readers prefer to be given just a glimpse of what is coming or do they want to know the whole story—the entire array of new initiatives and policies that are transforming the journal? Is there an inherent advantage in incompleteness and/or superficiality? The answer to these questions was obvious to me. The changes that are taking place at Circulation Research are too numerous, too profound, and too important to be compressed into a few paragraphs, nor did I see any point in describing them in a manner that would be haphazard, ambiguous, and/or incomplete (for example, omitting most of them just to be brief). And so, what was originally supposed to be a two-page Editorial has ballooned into a manuscript longer than a Regular Article. I ask the readers not to ascribe this unusual length to an inadequate effort on my part to be succinct. While …

Lindsey Hughes: A Bibliography

SEER, Vol. 88,Nos. 1/2,January /April 2010 PART THREE Lindsey Hughes: A Bibliography SIMON DIXON This bibliographylists books and articlespublishedbyLindseyHughes both in her lifetime and posthumously. Though all but three entries have been checked de visu, the listdraws on notes kept inLindsey's own papers, generously supplied by Dr James Cutshall. Reviews have not been included, though a large number of these appeared not only in leading historical periodicals, but also in the Times Literary Supplement, for which Lindsey reviewed Russian theatre and the arts in London formany years. Her numerous encyclopaedia articles ? most notably in theModern Encyclopedia ofRussian and Soviet History, 59 vols and supplements, Gulf Breeze, FL, 1976 ? have likewise been excluded. ABBREVIATIONS CASS Canadian-Amer?can Slavic Studies CSP Canadian Slavonic Papers FOG Forschungen zur osteurop?ischen Geschichte OSP Oxford Slavonic Papers SEERSlavonic and East European Review SGECRJV Study Group onEighteenth-CenturyRussia Newsletter 1976 'Moscow Baroque Architecture: A Study ofOne Aspect ofWesternisa tion in Late Seventeenth-Century Russia', unpublished PhD thesis, University of Cambridge. 'Byelorussian Craftsmen in Seventeenth-Century Russia and their Influence on Muscovite Architecture', Journal ofByelorussian Studies, 3, pp. 327-41. 1977 'Western European Graphic Material as a Source for Moscow Baroque Architecture', SEER, 55, 4, pp. 433-43. LINDSEY HUGHES: A BIBLIOGRAPHY 417 1979 'The Moscow Armoury and Innovations in Seventeenth-Century Muscovite Art', CASS, 13, 1-2, pp. 204-23. 1980 'The 17th-century "Renaissance" inRussia: Western Influences inArt and Architecture5, History Today, February, pp. 41-45. 1981 'Architectural books in Petrine Russia', in Russia and the West in the Eighteenth Century, ed. A. G. Cross, Newtonville, MA, Oriental Research Partners, pp. 101-08. 'Ablesimov's Mel'nik. A Study in Success', SGECRN, 9, pp. 29-40. 1982 '"Moscow Baroque" ? a Controversial Style5, Transactions of the Association ofRussian-American Scholars inUSA, 15, pp. 69-83. Seventeenth-Century Westerniser: Prince Vasily VasiTevich Golitsyn (1643-1714)', Irish Slavonic Studies, 3, pp. 47-58. 'Sophia, Regent of Russia', History Today, July, pp. 10-15. 1983 'Russia's First Architectural Books: A Chapter in Peter the Great's Cultural Revolution', in Russian Avant-Garde Art and Architecture, ed. Catherine Cooke, London, pp. 4-13. 1984 Russia and theWest: The Life of a Seventeenth-Century Westerniser, Prince Vastly VasiVevich Golitsyn (1643-1704), Newtonville, MA, Oriental Research Partners, Russian Biography Series, 14, 129 pp. 1985 'Sofiya Alekseyevna and theMoscow Rebellion of 16825, SEER, 63, 4, PP- 5r?-39 1986 'Sophia, "Autocrat of all theRussias": Titles, Ritual and Eulogy in the Regency of Sophia Alekseevna (1682-89)5, CSP, 28, 3, pp. 266-86. 4i8 LINDSEY HUGHES! A BIBLIOGRAPHY 'N. A. L'vov and the Russian Country House5, in Russia and the World of theEighteenth Century, eds R. P. Bartlett, A. G. Cross and Karen Rasmussen, Columbus, OH, Slavica Publishers, pp. 289-300. 1988 '"Ambitious and Daring above her Sex55: Tsarevna Sophia Alekseevna (1657-1704) in Foreigners5 Accounts5, OSP, New Series, 21, pp. 65-89. 'The Age of Transition: 17th-century Russian Icon-Painting5, in Icons 88, eds Sarah Smyth and Stanford Kingston, Dublin, Veritas Publications, pp. 63-74. 1989 Editor and translator. S. M. Soloviev, A History ofRussia, vol. 25: Rebellion and Reform: Fedor and Sophia i682-i68g, Gulf Breeze, FL, Academic International Press, xxxiv + 276 pp. 1990 Sophia, Regent of Russia 1637-1704, New Haven, CT, and London, Yale University Press, xvii + 345 pp. [Awarded Heidt Prize for best book in Slavic Women's studies, 1991, by theAmerican Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies.] Consultant editor and joint author with Robin Milner-Gulland and Orlando Figes. The Russian Chronicles, London, Century, 480 pp. [Lindsey Hughes contributed 'Britain and Russia: 1000 years ofAnglo Russian relations5, pp. 12-18; 'Imperial Russia 1676-18255, pp. 144-45; 'Russian Renaissance5, pp. 153-55; 'St Petersburg5, pp. 169-71); 'Peter ,p. 183; 'Elizabeth5, p. 193.] 'V. T. Postnikov5s 1687Mission to London: Anglo-Russian Relations in the 1680S in British Sources5, SEER, 68, 3, pp. 447-60. 'Visions of an Imperial Capital5, in Tradition and Revolution inRussian Art, ed. S. Causey, Manchester, Cornerhouse Publications, pp. 174-77. 1991 'The West comes to Russian Architecture5, in Russia and Europe, ed. Paul Dukes, London, Collins and Brown, pp. 24-35. [Reprinted from History...

From placebos to face masks

One of the privileges of being a Consultant Editor is that I get to read many of the articles before they go to press. I was refl ecting on this advantaged position during a lunch break, while reading a fascinating article submitted for this edition. It was written by Mark Greener and is about the way that prescribers can harness insights about healing and therapeutic interventions to improve outcomes for patients through the use of placebos. Aft er learning that the direct translation of the word placebo is ‘I shall please’ and being thoroughly immersed in placebo effects, I was momentarily distracted by an email that had landed in my inbox, detailing the need for me to go on a short a training session to learn how to fit a face mask, as part of the swine fl u prevention strategy in our Trust. At the time of writing we are at Phase 5 of the pandemic scale (Phase 6 being a full-blown pandemic). Th egeneral public appear to be rather sceptical at the moment, with many taking a lighthearted approach, but many others being more than a little concerned at the speed at which the situation is developing. I was rather surprised to find that we need training to fit a face mask—and even more confused by the leafl et that the Department of Health is distributing to every household (Department of Health, 2009). Th is states that the available scientific evidence shows that basic face masks do not prevent people from being infected. Sir Liam Donaldson had confirmed this view in the Daily Telegraph by stating that he thought that a face mask might give people a false sense of security. But having my head full of thoughts of placebo effects, I thought that perhaps the placebo effect of a face mask would be useful! Th is view is reiterated by Peter Sandman, a consultant in disaster management, who states that: ‘It’s not dumb to give people things to do in a crisis because doing something when anxious makes you feel calmer’ (Telegraph.co.uk, 2009). I decided there and then to sign up for the training session—after all I need the placebo effect as much as everyone else, but I think a supply of Tamifl u or Relenza might be more reassuring just in case the face mask fails to work!

Consultant editor 'delighted' to join Nursing Older People.

NICKY HAYES (left) is the new consultant editor of Nursing Older People.

Media and Society in Iran

This special edition of The Asian Journal of Social Sciences presents the think ing of a number of contemporary Iranian scholars on issues mostly related to media and religion, and on current thoughts surrounding contemporary socio-economic issues in Iran. The papers reflect a thorough overview of aca demic works in the disciplines of social sciences, including communication, sociology and anthropology. These types of analyses are absent in the west and/or in many other societies where they are being affected by ill-treated analyses on contemporary Iran. Hamid Abdollahyan and Mohammad Reza Javadi Yeganeh from the University of Tehran are the Journal's consulting edi tors for this special issue. Their insights in compiling the papers and working through all stages with us helped us to offer an overall insight into contempo rary and the papers that are included were selected after a thorough peer review process. The first paper, by Hamid Abdollahyan and Hooshang Neyebi, is titled Conceptualizing Occupational Prestige: An Empirical Case Study from Iran, and deals with the question of social stratification from an Iranian point of view. In approaching this topic, the authors use Davis and Moor's 1945 theory of social stratification and provide a modified version of the theory to deal with the changing stratification in Iran. They argue that social stratifi cation has a functional necessity in any complex society in the sense that no position is expected to remain vacant and the society's norms draw quali fied people into positions. They also argue that social stratification is concep tually distinct from other social inequalities such as Marx's social classification. They also claim that prestige structure is representative of stratification. Based on such postulates they go on to examine how various jobs are ranked by Iranians.

Atlas of Ultrasound- and Nerve Stimulation-guided Regional Anesthesia.

Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida. clendenen.steven@mayo.eduAtlas of Ultrasound- and Nerve Stimulation-guided Regional Anesthesia. By Ban C. H. Tsui, M.D. Consulting Editors: Vincent W. S. Chan, M.D., Brendan T. Finucane, M.B., B.Ch., Thomas Grau, M.D., Ph.D., and Anil H. Walji, M.D., Ph.D. New York, Springer Science+Business Media, 2007. Pages: 302. Price: $170.00.Regional anesthesia has made rapid advancement over the past 30 yr with the introduction of electrical stimulation to guide needle placement and the most recent addition of ultrasound. The key to a successful block is to deliver the local anesthetic to the target nerves. Atlas of Ultrasound- and Nerve Stimulation-guided Regional Anesthesia illustrates how to combine ultrasound and nerve stimulation to advance the art of regional anesthesia to a more scientific approach.The book’s first two chapters are brief introductions into the logistics of establishing a block room and garnering the supplies needed. They also include a comprehensive review of the physics of nerve stimulation and features of the equipment needed. The authors emphasize that nerve stimulation can be very helpful to novices as they learn to incorporate ultrasound into their regional practices, with the goal of confirmation that nerves on images and reactive to stimulation are actually nerves.Chapters 3 and 4 provide an elementary look at the ultrasound basics, including physics and workings of the ultrasound machine. These chapters provide guidance in choosing the correct ultrasound probe (linear vs. curved array), which is essential for obtaining adequate images that will identify nerves. Tissue sonoanatomy, required to identify the various structures within ultrasound images, is introduced. After identifying the nerve, one of the more difficult issues to learn is to track the needle to the target nerve. Practical tips are given to assist clinicians in observing and maintaining the trajectory of the needle. The author introduces a “training wheel” laser light attachment system that he has developed to aid the beginner in aligning the ultrasound beam with an in-plane technique in guiding the needle to the nerve.The remainder of the book is divided into chapters describing the most common regional blocks. The author is consistent with his stepwise approach to convey an easy and clear method in performing the various blocks with introduction of clinical anatomy followed by surface anatomy. Anatomical dissections, corresponding magnetic resonance imaging images, and ultrasound images are used for comparison to provide clinicians with a comprehensive view of anatomy. The message is clear that performing a successful regional block is dependent on a thorough understanding of anatomy. The chapters describe how to position the ultrasound probe to obtain the best images to perform the block. Comparison ultrasound scans of labeled and unlabeled images are educational tools used to learn the sonoanatomy of the different blocks. Appropriate motor responses to nerve stimulation are listed for each of the individual target nerves. Clinical pearls and troubleshooting suggestions are detailed at the end of each chapter.Chapter 16 explores the role of ultrasound with regional catheter placement and stimulating catheters. As the author notes, there is not an abundance of information in the literature regarding ultrasound guidance of catheters and stimulating versus nonstimulating catheters. The chapter is based primarily on the author’s clinical experience and gives several helpful suggestions on placement of catheters.One of the challenges of ultrasound imaging is learning sonoanatomy and being able to identify nerves. Examples of the ultrasound images throughout the book were adequate but challenging. In several of the images, it was difficult to clearly see the nerves, a problem that is unfortunately realistic and often the case when performing ultrasound-guided nerve blocks. For the beginner, it may be helpful to be able to compare both ideal and mediocre ultrasound images.In summary, the authors are to be congratulated for a well-designed book that explains their approach to performing regional blocks with the aid of nerve stimulation and ultrasound. The book offers an easy-to-follow stepwise introduction of ultrasound for beginners and several advanced ultrasound techniques for experienced clinicians. The book provides numerous practical suggestions on how to safely perform regional blocks with high success rates. This is an excellent resource for any clinician performing regional blocks.Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida.clendenen.steven@mayo.edu

The Queen's birthday honours.

Chief nursing officer for England Chris Beasley (left) has been made a DBE. The same honour has gone to Donna Kinnair, consultant editor of Nursing Management, and director of clinical leadership, quality and nursing, and head of children's integrated commissioning, at Southwark Primary Care Trust, London.

Don’t be shy of sharing your work

It is with some regret that I pen my final editorial as joint consultant editor of this journal. After a great deal of contemplation I have decided to step down and hand over the reins completely to Jenny and Vicqui. I have enjoyed my time as editor and feel that the journal continues to provide an excellent resource for cardiac nurses in the UK and the wider English-speaking world.