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... planning, teaching and training responsibilities offers possibilities for planning, teaching and training disaster medicine by giving immediate feed- back based on real incidents. Background Introduction To ... methods Alert was defined as a warning signal and threat, which might result in a) an incident defined as a single distinct event or a public disturbance or to b) an alarm, defined as a fear or ... most of them teenagers. The following investigation revealed cer- tain short-comings regarding the medical response, recog- nizing the need of a regional point of contact ("POC") and...

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... pre-existing increased insulin resistance and dysfunction of beta cells. Insulin resistance is present in the acutely ill [13,15,18,28] in different intensity, but the factors determining the ... 8 underlying physiology, there is a combination of physio- logical factors predisposing a patient for hyperglycaemia in acute illness, during which hyperglycaemic mecha- nisms in stress and inflammatory ... determining the extent of insulin resistance are not known. Our observation that body mass index, which is certainly associated with insulin resistance [29], is higher in the hyperglycaemia group...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:02

... Changes in arterial pulse pressure and pulse contour-derived cardiac index during end- expiratory occlusion of the ventilator as well as changes in car- diac index during PLR were examined. An increase ... increase in cardiac index of 10% or more during PLR predicted an increase in car- diac index following VE of 15% or more with a sensitivity of 91% and a specificity of 100%. Changes in pulse ... are deemed necessary by treating clinicians [10-14]. A simple, non-invasive bedside test to determine volume responsiveness that would assist clini- cians in facing this daily dilemma would have...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:06

... clinical data were obtained using the regional ICU patient data warehouse. Data sources include an electronic patient information system (Quantitative Sentinel; GE-Marquette Medical Systems Inc, ... mortality rates in patients presenting with hypernatraemia than in those acquiring the disorder (43% versus 39%) [12]. Similarly, in a retrospective five-year review of a medical ICU in France, Bennani ... compared with 32% in patients who acquired hypernatraemia during their ICU stay [11]. Lindner and colleagues described a similar inci- dence of hypernatraemia in a medical ICU in Austria, but reported...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:31

... understanding of AF in critically ill patients. Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests. References 1. Pinski SL: Atrial fibrillation in the surgical intensive ... trial in medical intensive care unit patients with placebo treatment in the control arm is therefore still defendable. Introduction Atrial fibrillation (AF) is frequently observed in the medical intensive ... 32:890-891. 2. Reinelt P, Karth GD, Geppert A, Heinz G: Incidence and type of cardiac arrhythmias in critically ill patients: a single center experience in a medical cardiological ICU. Intensive Care...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:35

... algorithm in medical intensive care unit patients Marjolein de Wit 1 , Chris Gennings 2 , Wendy I Jenvey 1 and Scott K Epstein 3 1 Pulmonary and Critical Care Division, Department of Internal Medicine, ... ICU nursing staff underwent a 2-month introductory period in the use of the algorithm. After educational training, the algorithm underwent a 1-month run -in period prior to study initiation. During ... (Table 3). Sedation interruption In the DIS group, assessments were made for sedation inter- ruption on 173 occasions. In 92% of the cases, patients were receiving continuous infusions; in 4% of the...

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... within the scope of informatics in medical imaging. e target audience for this book is students, researchers, and professionals in medical physics and biomedical imaging with an interest in informatics. ... for medical physicists and radiologists needing information on infor- matics in medical imaging. It provides a knowledge foundation of the state of the art in medical imaging informatics and points ... thus, imaging informatics is used extensively in these specialties as well. Owing to continuous progress in image acquisition, archiving, and processing systems, the eld of medical imaging informatics...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 20:20

... generate reminders for physicians related to monitoring and tracking patients, for example, administering flu vaccine or monitoring and adjusting medications. 6 Missing clinical information ... Administration Senior Fellow, Institute of Medicine. Homer L. Chin, MD, Medical Director, Clinical Information Systems, Kaiser Permanente. David Classen, MD, Vice President, First Consulting ... patients are coming in, who is languishing in a delay pattern, and where all patients are located. It includes patient admitting information, a full discharge summary, all medication information,...

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... Overcoming Secondary Stress in Medical and Nursing Practice Stress in Medical and Nursing Practice is designed with these realities and practices in mind. This book is a beginning. Nothing more. ... Expanding workload, within shrinking fi nancial and mate- rial resources. Increasing consumerism has resulted in both increasing demands and expectations from patients. In addition, doctors fi ... surprising. Following this, guidelines for the development of a personally designed self-care protocol will be provided, as well as information on maintaining perspective and increasing self-knowledge...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 13:20

... principles of reasoning with uncertainty: e.g. Connoly (1994) and Mitkov (1997). Our system can be included into the first approach. In these integrated approaches the semantic and domain ... worked on different texts (Spanish texts) . apply a partial parsing and we deal with other kinds of anaphors. As a future aim we will include semantic information in our algorithm in order to check ... which includes all the coordinated noun phrases (in this case John and Bill). We will detect the coordination of noun phrases from the SS returned by the SUG fact coordinated. In one- 4 In...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 05:21

... text that convey a definite meaning; encyclopedic rules, which can evaluate importance by comparing the meaning of the text with domain specific knowledge contained in the encyclopedia. The ... structure: it is a logical con~)ination of key-terms, chosen in a predefinite set, that represent possible points of view a reader can take in analyzing a text. In this section we will illustrate ... the goal includes, among others: KNOW, BUY, and USE. We assume hereinafter the goal KNOW, i.e., we are particularly interested in knowing the main technical features of the U-DOS operating system....

Ngày tải lên: 09/03/2014, 01:20

... by medical schools, and the growing interest among medical students continues to push global health into the mainstream of medical education. The Benefits of International Clinical Rotations Medical ... benefits of including global health topics in the medical curriculum, as well as international clinical rotations in the training of medical students. 15,28 Those who have completed a rotation in a developing ... completed an international clinical rotation revealed meaningful learning experiences in the domains of medical knowledge, clinical skills, international health care organization, international medical...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 21:20

... & W. Hersh (Eds.), Medical informatics knowledge management and data mining in biomedicine (pp. 95-137). Springer Science+Business Media, Inc. 2005. Crawford, S. (2003). Internet pharmacy: ... Protecting privacy in computerized medical information. Ofce of Tech- nology Assessment. Washington,DC:U.S.GovernmentPrintingOfce. Radatz,C.(2004). Internet pharmacies. Wisconsin Briefs, ... convergence of computer technology and medicine are vari- ous: health informatics, healthcare informatics, biomedical engineering, e-health, and medical informatics. The areas all overlap and share...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 12:20

... is a distinc- tion between an intended action or omission (intending a result) and intentional actions or omissions (bringing about a result intentionally). As Duff explains: I do not intend the ... one hand intended, or, on the other, is a mere side effect, and between acting to kill and omitting to save. As a result, although administering pain-killing medication and withdrawing life-sustaining ... other than intention which make a difference; certainly intention alone, especially bearing in mind the problems analysed above, is insufficient in itself to deal with the issues raised in the medical domain. The...

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