... prescriptions, physicians had to order a 'vancomycin loading dose' and a 'vancomycin dose accord-ing to plasma level', without having to adjust anything, whichvirtually eliminates the ... the data, statistical analysis and drafting of the manuscript.BC was responsible for data acquisition, analysis of the data,and drafting of the manuscript. JD was responsible for con-ceiving ... Nominal data werecompared by using chi-square analysis or by Fisher's exacttest as appropriate. Correlations between continuous varia-bles were calculated by the Spearman rank correlation...
... the main program is busy doing something, the other threads can handle the user inputs and perform the tasks. For example, if a user wants to cancel bringing ina large amount of data from a web ... threads to handle individual tasks. For instance, if a thread performing activity A spends a significant amount of time waiting for an I/O operation to complete, another thread can be created ... pressing a button or constantly interacting with the program, are independent activities. The performance of an application can be improved by creating a separate thread for performing each of...
... critically ill patients in emergency situations. As part of their HEMS trainingprogramme, intraosseous training was given using man-ual needles, Bone Injection Guns, and EZ-IO® on bothmanikins and ... Heltne1,2,3AbstractBackground: Intraosseous access (IO) is a method for providing vascular access in out-of-hospital resuscitation ofcritically ill and injured patients when traditional intravenous access ... Newer intraosseous techniques may enable faster and more reliable vascular access, and this canlower the threshold for intraosseous access on both adult and paediatric patients in critical situations....
... objective was to gain insightinto the care and management of patients with muscu-loskeletal chest pain as experienced by both those withchiropractic training, medical training or combined train-ing.MethodsData ... competencies,and standards for referrals and sharing of clinical informa-tion that may improve current and future cross-discipli-nary coordination of care for chest pain patients.Clinical and health ... hospi-talization in patients with chest pain. JAMA 1997,278:1670-1676.41. Bing ML, Abel RL, Sabharwal K, McCauley C, Zaldivar K: Imple-menting a clinical pathway for the treatment of Medicarepatients...
... studies in conflict settings asdiverse as Angola [27], Afghanistan [28], and Burma(Myanmar) [29]. If a study omits children in addressingpopulation mortality, findings may exclude a large por-tion ... Uppsala Conflict Database Program (a database that contains information on armed conflicts ofthe world since 1989) [5], and the Database on theHuman Impact of Complex Emergencies (CE-DAT) [6].Using ... determine the validity of the study and the applicability of the findings to theirsettings.Public health scenarioYou are a physician working for an international human-itarian medical organization...
... high-reliability organizations such as aircraftcarriers, nuclear power plants, and air traffic controllers havemarkedly improved safety by standardizing practices andinvesting in safety training and ... Clinical pharmacy services, pharmacystaffing, and hospital mortality rates. Pharmacotherapy 2007,27:481-493.65. Montazeri M, Cook DJ: Impact of a clinical pharmacist ina mul-tidisciplinary intensive ... theliterature search strategy and partially drafted and revised themanuscript. All authors read and approved the finalmanuscript.AcknowledgmentsThe authors thank Sharon Straus and Heather Jeppesen...
... Alvaro Mauricio Quintero3, Luis Gabriel González3, Nora Elena Saldarriaga4, Marisol Bedoya1, Juan Manuel Toro5, Jorge Byron Velásquez4, Juan Carlos Valencia4, Clara Maria Arango5, ... glycaemic control in patients hospitalised ina mixed medical and surgical intensive care unit: a randomised clinical trialGisela Del Carmen De La Rosa1, Jorge Hernando Donado2, Alvaro ... Arango5, Pablo Henrique Aleman1, Esdras Martin Vasquez4, Juan Carlos Chavarriaga4, Andrés Yepes4, William Pulido4, Carlos Alberto Cadavid1 and Grupo de Investigacion en Cuidado intensivo:...
... clinically relevant and irrelevant findings, and simplyreported on all abnormalities [12]. At present, in many ICUsCXRs are still routinely obtained on a daily basis, at least in TheNetherlands ... [summarized in Table 1] were absent orpresent and, if an abnormality was present, whether it wasjudged to be an 'old' or 'new' finding). In case an abnormalitywas worsening, ... relevant abnormalities, and they rarelyprompt action. We propose that this diagnostic examination beabandoned in ICU patients.IntroductionChest radiographs (CXRs) are frequently obtained in intensivecare...
... than O-level).Furthermore, the use of medication within the last sevendays before the examination was ascertained by an instru-ment for database-assisted online collection of medicationdata ... Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany.7CentralHospital of Augsburg, MONICA/KORA Myocardial Infarction Registry,Augsburg, Germany.8Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Institute of MedicalData Management, ... analysis indicates thatBBL medication and not any other antihypertensive treat-ment is associated with reduced lung function ina gen-eral adult population. Thus, our findings may serve as a basis...