a systematic approach to critically ill patients

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... SEEA accounts can also be used to cal- culate environmental indicators, as illustrated later in this report. In addition to adjustments to economic indica- tors, purely economic approaches have ... substances. Indicator: Global atmospheric concentrations of CFC-U and CFC-12. Indicator: Stratospheric ozone levels over Canada. Further indicators may be introduced at a later date to measure ... environmental impacts on human health and welfare are key to sustainabil- ity—either as environmental indicators or as com- ponents of social indicators. Equally important are measures of the degree to...

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... is to the real value. Systematic error - Values that are either all higher or all lower than the actual value. 25 Figure 1.16 precise and accurate precise but not accurate Precision and accuracy ... values that are higher and some that are lower than the actual value. Precision - Refers to reproducibility or how close the measurements are to each other. Accuracy - Refers to how close a measurement ... Digits are Significant All digits are significant ã Make sure that the measured quantity has a decimal point. ã Start at the left, move right until you reach the first nonzero digit. ã Count that...

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... Due to practical, ethical and financial rationalizations, samples are rarely collected with a meth- odology that allows broad testing opportunities and at a time or anatomical site relevant to ... has been organized under the leadership of Lisa Butterfield, Nora Disis and Karolina Palucka to evaluate current approaches to the validation of known immune response biomarkers and the standardization ... successfully vaccinated patients and/or patients who respond to a specific immu- notherapy. Particularly, the least costly assay which is standardized and/or validated, with freely available refer- ence...

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... environment. 6 EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems Block 0 Block 1 ··· Block n − 1 Data 0 Data 1 ··· Data k − 1 Data 0 Data 1 ··· Data k − 1 Data 0 Data 1 ··· Data k − 1 Data 0 Data 1 ··· Data k − 1 Full Op ... edges are relaxed: partial releases are added to the typically ran- dom accessible data in the container of a token. These par- tial releases enable releasing only a part of the acquired tokes to ... number of tokens can change periodically resulting in a c yclo-static behavior. The data-driven operation of a CSDF graph allows for an automatic synchronization between the actors: an actor can- not...

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... Codes Sichun Wang 1 and Francáois Patenaude 2 1 Defence Research and Development Canada – Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada K 1A 0Z4 2 Communications Research Centre Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada K2H 8S2 Received ... & D Canada – Ottawa (DRDC Ottawa). His more recent research has focused on FFT filter-bank-based constant false alarm rate (CFAR) detectors and forward error-correction codes. Francáois Patenaude ... September 1997, he has been working in Ottawa, Canada. He was a Research Scientist at Telexis Corporation and Intrinsix Canada, and a Research Consul- tant for Calian Corporation. Currently, he...

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... 'glucose', 'insulin', 'protocol', 'algorithm', 'nomogram', 'scheme', &apos ;critically ill& apos; and 'intensive care'. Our search was ... terms: 'glucose', 'insulin', 'protocol', 'algorithm', 'nomogram', 'scheme', &apos ;critically ill& apos; and 'intensive care'. ... unit. Diabetes Care 2004, 27:461-467. 8. Zimmerman CR, Mlynarek ME, Jordan JA, Rajda CA, Horst HM: An insulin infusion protocol in critically ill cardiothoracic surgery patients. Ann Pharmacother...

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... scan is nowadays mandatory and a normal portable chest X-ray may lead to an erroneous classification [2]. The significance of a positive respiratory culture for Aspergillus spp. in a non-immunodepressed ... without malignancy. Am J Resp Crit Care Med 2004, 170:621-625. 5. Garnacho-Montero J, Amaya-Villar R, Ortiz-Leyba C, León C, Álvarez-Lerma F, Nolla-Salas J, Iruretagoyena JR, Barcenilla F: Isolation ... W, Colardyn F, Vogelaers D: Clinical relevance of Aspergillus iso- lation from respiratory tract samples in critically ill patients. Critical Care 2006, 10:R31. 2. Denning DW: Invasive aspergillosis....

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... Pertega S, Beceiro A, Llinares P, Canle D, Molina F, Villanueva R, Cisneros JM, Bou G: Hospital outbreak caused by a carbapenem-resistant strain of Acineto- bacter baumannii: patient prognosis and ... 2001, 29:N114-N120. 10. Fagon JY, Chastre J, Hance AJ, Montravers P, Novara A, Gibert C: Nosocomial pneumonia in ventilated patients: a cohort study evaluating attributable mortality and hospital stay. Am J Med 1993, ... Olona M, Martinez JA, Marco F, Lopez MJ, Soriano A, Horcajada JP, Gatell JM, et al.: Bacteraemia in adults due to glucose non-fermentative Gram-negative bacilli other than P. aeruginosa. QJM 2003,...

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... purposes) Table 1 Characteristics of randomized clinical trials comparing percutaneous dilatational and surgical tracheostomy in critically ill patients Study No. of Participants Mean age (years) Male ... Midtgaard T, Johansen LV, Moller J, Paaske PB: Percutaneous dilatational tra- cheostomy versus conventional surgical tracheostomy. A clin- ical randomised study. Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica 1998, ... Percutaneous tra- cheostomy: a clinical comparison of dilatational (Ciaglia) and translaryngeal (Fantoni) techniques. Anesth Analg 1999, 89:938-943. 57. Oberwalder M, Weis H, Nehoda H, Kafka-Ritsch...

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... international normalized ratio (INR), and a liver panel. Although the serum aminotransferase level correlates poorly with liver histology, the ratio of aspartate aminotransferase (AST) to alanine ... disease. Hepatotoxic drugs should also be avoided, as patients with advanced fibrosis have little reserve for additional injury. Immunization against hepatitis A and B should be given if patients ... International Publisher. All rights reserved Review A Practical Approach to Managing Patients with HCV Infection Richard H. Huang, and Ke-Qin Hu Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology,...

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