LONG TERM FEEDING TUBE PLACEMENT IN ELDERLY PATIENTS pptx
... In Favour Unsure A g ainst Personal Worksheet for Feeding Tube Placement Disadvantages Complications from the feeding tube: Minor: infection, bleeding, temporary diarrhea, tube ... clear from the studies if getting a feeding tube increases the chances of aspirating, or whether being an aspirator increases the chances of getting a feeding tube. Silver I...
Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 20:20
... hospital and informed consent was obtained from all subjects. Maintenance treatment scheme consisted of a combination of a calcineurin inhibitor (tacrolimus) with a purine inhibitor (mycophenolate ... were 1min at 94 ο C, 40 cycles of 1min at 94 ο C (template denatura- tion), 1min at 55 ο C (primer annealing), 1min at 72 ο C (primer extension) and finally, 7min at 72 ο C (final elongat...
Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2012, 09:32
... stored in the liver (vitamin A en E). At baseline, vitamin D levels were deficient. This is in line with previous findings by other studies and a Cochrane review on interventions for preventing ... supplements can be effective in improving nutritional status in malnourished elderly people, both in the clinical setting and in the community(17;18). In malnourished hospitali...
Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 18:20
Diagnostic and Therapeutic Problems of Pulmonary Tuberculosis in Elderly Patients doc
... changes in the tuber- culin skin reaction and a high incidence of underlying illnesses also play a role in prolonging the final diagnosis (15). Some have even suggested that pulmonary TB in the elderly ... TB in the elderly. A positive spu- tum AFB smear was obtained in 57.1% of elderly and in 57.5 % of young TB patients, and a positive AFB culture was ob- tained in 70.6%...
Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 03:20
Báo cáo khoa học: Photosynthetic acclimation: State transitions and adjustment of photosystem stoichiometry – functional relationships between short-term and long-term light quality acclimation in plants ppt
... abiotic and biotic in uences, light is highly variable in its intensity and its quality on both a short- term timescale (in the range of seconds to minutes) and a long- term timescale (in the range ... reduction in seed production, indicating synergistic effects when both kinases are lacking [9]. Additional interesting results were obtained by some gene-expression studies. The lac...
Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 06:20
Báo cáo " WHAT CAN HISTORY TEACH US? A Retrospective Examination of Long-Term Energy Forecasts for the United States " pptx
... provide more insight. This kind of approach is being used increasingly in both industry and government, and especially by the utility industry (27, 31,32). 3.4.1. STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES Combined approaches ... forecasts in our planning. Reading some old writings is both instructive and humbling. We have already noted Jevons’ (1) book exploring the prospect of England’s running out of co...
Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 01:21
LONG-TERM FITNESS TRAINING IMPROVES THE CIRCADIAN REST-ACTIVITY RHYTHM IN HEALTHY ELDERLY MALES ppt
Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 20:20
Báo cáo y học: "Long Term Persistence of IgE Anti-Influenza Virus Antibodies in Pediatric and Adult Serum Post Vaccination with Influenza Virus Vaccine"
... BioRad, Hercules, CA). Cytokine determination Serum cytokines [Interleukin-2 (IL-2), Interferon gamma (IFN-γ), Interleukin-4 (IL-4), Interluekin-10 (IL-10)] were determined by sandwich ELISA (Bio- source, ... followed were in accordance with institutional guidelines involving human subjects. Vaccine description All adults were vaccinated with Influenza Virus Vaccine Fluzone ® (in...
Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 11:10
Báo cáo y học: "Sustained High Quality of Life in a 5-Year Long Term Follow-up after Successful Ablation for Supra-Ventricular Tachycardia. Results from a large Retrospective Patient Cohort"
... The main reasons for patients seeking therapy were tachycardic palpitations (281 patients, 91.5%) and increasing incidence of episodes (224 patients, 78.1%). In descending order, patients ... primary and long- term electrophysiological suc- cess rates are in line with the literature (1-6, 9, 10). Quality of life in long term follow-up: Prior to interventional therapy,...
Ngày tải lên: 03/11/2012, 11:44
Long-term trends in water quality in an under-populated watershed and influence of precipitation
... affected the water quality in the following way. In forests (covering approximately two-thirds of the land in Japan), delayed thinning of conifer plantations (covering approximately 40% of ... delayed thinning of conifer plantations was responsible for increased amounts of pollutant runoff, as determined by comparing the pollutant loads from a watershed with delayed thinning and a...
Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 10:15