… Alexander JW, Meakins JL: A physiologic basis for the development of opportunistic … Ing
AFM, McLean APH, Meakins JL: Multiple-organ bacteremia in the surgical intensive care unit: A …

Surgical risk increases with age, primarily from loss of cardiac and pulmonary reserve.
Complications are tolerated poorly by the elderly, emphasizing the importance of their prediction …

… Meakins discussed my paper on T suppressor cells, and his major question was: What
about T cell-independent infections? I think it is interesting that the superb work that they have …

Background: Interest in the training and evaluation of laparoscopic skills is extending beyond
the realm of the operating room to the use of laparoscopic simulators. The purpose of this …

… Marshall JC, Christou NV, Horn H, Meakins JL. The microbiology of multiple organ failure:
the … Rotstein OD, Meakins JL. Diagnostic and therapeutic challenges of intraabdominal …

… Meakins and others points up the fact that failure of energy metabolism, and secondarily
protein synthesis, seriously impair immunocompetence in a variety of ways. Therefore, we …

Laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) has gained wide acceptance for treatment of cholelithiasis
in preference to open cholecystectomy, though it has not been formally compared with …

Laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) has been performed increasingly in an outpatient
setting. Conversion from LC to open cholecystectomy (OC) is sometimes required. To predict …

Objective: The authors determined the most useful predictors of common bile duct (CBD)
stones as diagnosed by endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) in patients …

… Dawson JL: A study of some factors affecting the mortality rate in diffuse peritonitis. Gut
1963;4:368-372. Slade MS, Simmons RL, Yunis EJ, et al: Immunodepression after major surgery …