identify a casualty with a closed chest injury

... was made of the clinical and functional variables by calculating the median and interquartile range of the quantitative variables and the frequencies and percentages of the qualitative variables ... was completed satisfactorily, a static calibration recording was made Using the static calibration recording, we checked that each marker was visible to at least one of the scanning cameras at ... arm was placed against the trunk and the elbow was flexed 90° flexion and in a neutral pronation-supination, i.e., with the palm of the hand perpendicular to the table surface and facing inward...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... performed in compliance with the guidelines of the Federation of European Laboratory Animal Science Association (FELASA) and approval was granted by the Institutional Animal Care Committee of the ... Metab 2002, 22:971-978 Shohami E, Bass R, Wallach D, Yamin A, Gallily R: Inhibition of tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNFalpha) activity in rat brain is associated with cerebroprotection after closed ... experimental brain injury Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1999, 96:8721-8726 Marshall LF, Marshall SB, Klauber MR, Van BerkumClark M, Eisenberg H, Jane JA, Luerssen TG, Marmarou A, Foulkes MA: The diagnosis...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 22:20

... pneumology ward days after admission Conclusion Mean airways pressure limitation is now a largely accepted strategy in adult acute lung injury; however, there is debate about the exact level of mean airways ... echocardiography, pulmonary systolic arterial pressure daily in all mechanically ventilated newborns as an indirect indicator of alveolar overdistension [5] We have realized that the application ... syncytial virus bronchiolitis with asymmetric lung injury, which had been unresponsive to conventional pharmacological therapy and single-tube mechanical ventilation Case presentation A male neonate...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 21:22

... second, and third metatarsals (tarsometatarsal or Lisfranc joint) with associated fracture of the middle cuneiform postoperative radiograph is shown (Fig 3) He was treated with a non-weight-bearing ... nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug was prescribed for pain The patient had only mild pain with weight-bearing at months and was ambulating without difficulty; he was pain-free at years Discussion ... the tarsometatarsal (Lisfranc) joint with associated soft tissue swelling trauma to the foot [4] Most commonly, Lisfranc joint sprains and fractures are caused by high-velocity traumas, such as...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 21:22

... Kiyohara H: A case of infected solitary renal cyst treated with percutaneous puncture and drainage Hinyokika Kiyo 1991, 37:381-384 Papanicolaou N, Pfister RC, Yoder IC: Spontaneous and traumatic ... 6:2450-2459 Takashima M, Miyazaki K, Asari T, Fujita Y, Ikeda D, Yoshida M: A case of infected renal cyst: the usefulness of magnetic resonance imaging for preoperative diagnosis Hinyokika Kiyo 1993, ... 64:180 Vaidyanathan S, Soni BM, Singh G, Subramaniam R, Bingley J, Sett P, Parsons KF: Blunt trauma to scrotum in men with spinal cord injury after they had completed rehabilitation in a spinal unit...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 23:21

... day 1, day 6, and the change in value between day and Stata 9.0 (StataCorp, College Station, Texas) computer software was used for statistical analysis All interval data in tables and text are ... the manuscript HJ and ME helped with the statistical analysis RK and MAM oversaw the research, helped analyzed the data and edit the manuscript All authors have read and have approved this manuscript ... independently associated with mortality In addition, odds ratios for the change between day and day of mechanical ventilation were calculated for each variable (Table 3) The only variable associated with...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 13:22

... calculated as fractional change (X) = XpostRM/XpreRM - and correlation analysis performed as explained above Fractional change values are expressed as percentages Statistical significance was accepted ... manuscript PP participated in analysis and interpretation of the data and revised the manuscript RD participated in the animal experiments and the analysis of data AU participated in the animal experiments ... inflations A detailed description of animal preparation and measurements can be found in Additional file After the experiment, the animals were killed with a barbiturate overdose Statistical analysis...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 22:22

... Hirashima Y, Nakamura S, Endo S, Kuwayama N, Naruse Y, Takaku A: Elevation of platelet activating factor, inflammatory cytokines, and coagulation factors in the internal jugular vein of patients ... Subdural hematoma 54% Extradural hematoma 55% Diffuse axonal injury 31% Intraventricular hemorrhage 32% Parenchymal hematoma 28% Patient characteristics A total of 209 patients were identified as ... SOFA and MOD Page of 10 (page number not for citation purposes) cardiovascular component cardiovascular scores Developing cardiovascular failure as defined by SOFA was associated with a greater...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 02:24

... international normalized ratio 1.2, albumin 3.4 g/dl, total bilirubin 0.9 mg/dl, alkaline phosphatase 64 IU/L, aspartate aminotransferase 57 IU/L, and alanine aminotransferase 43 IU/L The initial arterial ... view of the fact that maximized ventilator settings, adequate sedation, paralysis, and inhalational therapies (albuterol and ipratropium) had neither improved the patient's intracranial pressures, ... Raurich JM, Ibanez J, Burguera B, Barcelo A, Ayestaran JI, Perez-Barcena I: Relationship between plasma adrenocorticotropin hormone and intensive care unit survival in early traumatic brain injury...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 23:20

... lung injury compared with the oxygenationbased ARDSNet protocol after a 12-hour ventilation trial Page of Abbreviations ALI: acute lung injury; ANOVA: analysis of variance; ARDS: acute respiratory ... was approved by the local animal ethics committee Page of Animal preparation Anesthesia was induced by tiletamine mg.kg-1, zolazepam mg.kg -1 , xylazine 2.2 mg.kg-1 intramuscularly, and maintained ... formalin solution and subsequently embedded in paraffin, sectioned at a thickness of μm, and stained with H&E Data analysis Histopathology The histopathological analysis was performed by a pathologist...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 08:21

... Branch lengths (lEU, lAF, lAS) were calculated from single locus pairwise FST distances lEU = (European:Asian FST + European-African FST - Asian-African FST)/2; lAS = (European-Asian FST + Asian-African ... Asian-African FST - European-African FST)/2; lAF = (European-African FST + Asian-African FST - European-Asian FST)/2 deposited research Statistical tests to identify the signature of selection African ... study as outliers EU, EuropeanAmericans; AF, African-Americans; AS, East Asian satellites did not correlate with their distances to the nearest gene (Spearman's rho = 0.08; Pearson correlation...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 17:22

... show the minimum and maximum annual average acceptance rates to be 999.2 mg/year and 1000.8 mg/year respectively The mean, variance, and standard deviation are 1000 mg/year, 0.0504, and 0.225 respectively ... generation rate, k and potential methane generation capacity, Lo Emission type Landfill type CAA Conventional CAA Arid area Inventory Conventional Inventory Arid area Inventory Wet (bioreactor) Source: ... dioxide are the major gases produced by biodegradation of landfill wastes [2-4, 7] According to Scheutz et al [2], the biodegradable organic material in waste includes paper, animal and vegetable matter,...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 16:11

... conception and design, acquisition of data, analysis and interpretation of data and manuscript drafting; EDM have made part of acquisition of data, analysis and interpretation of data and have been ... such parameters Anyway, ANNs generalization capability could partly adapt to these possible variations All these parameters were changed up to ± 50% of their nominal value and the angular RMSE ... already been established that adding noise to the training data in artificial neural learning improves the quality of learning, as measured by the trained networks ability to maximize exploration...

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Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 10:20

... To assess the functional state of astrocytes after traumatic brain injury, we analyzed the expression of two glutamate transporters, glutamate aspartate transporter (GLAST) and glutamate transporter-1 ... We also analyzed levels of glutamate transporters and the glutamate catabolic enzyme glutamine synthetase, since the capacity of an astrocyte to remove glutamate from the extracellular space ... released and cleaves the protease-activated receptors (PARs), which subsequently induce plasma extravasation and inflammation Activated thrombin receptors also stimulate glial cell proliferation...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 22:20

... successful at obtaining complete characterizations in some settings, it does not adequately tackle every surface and leaves the reader wondering what could be accomplished with a true three-dimensional ... corresponding bipartite graph will not contain a Hamiltonian cycle Note that this argument easily extends to show that the n × m × k board does not admit a closed knight’s tour where n, m and k are all odd ... Soumise a Aucune Analyse, Mem Acad Sci Berlin 15 (1759), 310-337 [4] A J Schwenk, Which Rectangular Chessboards have a Knight’s Tour? Mathematics Magazine 64:5 (December 1991) 325-332 [5] J J Watkins,...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 15:22

... Figure 2: A permutomino and the two associated permutations The two permutations associated with P1 and P2 are indicated by π1 and π2 , respectively (see Figure 2) While it is clear that any permutomino ... operation (α), and one application of operations (β) and (γ) for any cell in cn ii P satisfies U2 (and not U1) The operator ϑ performs on P operation (δ), and one application of operations (β) and ... (a) (b) (c) Figure 1: (a) a polyomino; (b) a column convex polyomino; (c) a convex polyomino In the last two decades convex polyominoes, and several combinatorial objects obtained as a generalizations...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 15:22

... appearance of a paper [7] by Thomas Kirkman posing the general question, this cycle’s name originates from mathematician William Rowen Hamilton and his Icosian game of the late 1850’s ... board The constructions in our proof begin with two closed knight’s tours on two boards sharing at least two common parameters We place the boards adjacent to each other to create a larger board ... showing that the boards that satisfy at least one of the conditions of Theorem not contain a closed knight’s tour Parity conditions on i, j and k immediately dictate a necessary condition A closed...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 12:23

... regarding the degree of synovitis and joint destruction One-half of the patient population was initially treated with analgesics followed by antimalarials or sulfasalazine if the initial treatment ... suggesting that the ACPA prevalence increases with increasing disease duration Prospective studies on early RA have shown that the antiCCP status is usually stable from the time of clinical presentation, ... population At a diagnostic sensitivity equal to agglutinating RF, the secondgeneration anti-CCP2 assays detect ACPA of the IgG class with a superior diagnostic specificity for RA Studies on patients...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 07:20

... tried in a few cases In our patient, various medical treatments were applied (Clonazepam mg/day, Carbamazepine 800 mg/ day, Na valproate 1000 mg/day, Piracetam 4.8 g/day) but no response was observed ... laboratory, radiological and electrophysiological evaluations, the patient was diagnosed as having a non-proprioceptive spinal myoclonus Various drugs were used (Carbamazepine 800 mg/day, Na valproate ... manuscript as well as performed electromyographical examinations and material support DU Carried out the clinical examinations, participated in the conception and design, acquisition of the data, and...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:20