... loudspeakers and paging system, and a detailed log of all calls is maintained Criteria formedicalemergencyteam activation Calling criteria for our MET service are based on acute changes in heart ... per year Hospital emergency response teams The acute care hospital has two levels of medicalemergency responses and teams A traditional cardiac arrest ('code blue') teamis comprised of a cardiology ... manuscript All authors read and approved the final manuscript Buist MD, Jarmolowski E, Burton PR, Bernard SA, Waxman BP, Anderson J: Recognising clinical instability in hospital patients before cardiac...
... has a 21-bed ICU that is staffed by intensive care registrars at all times In both hospitals the ICU medical staff may have a background in anaesthesia, internal medicine or emergency medicine ... the Austin Hospital also included automatic medical referral for surgical patients who remained on the ward after a MET call foramedical reason, and compulsory review of the patient by an Available ... performed the data analysis All authors performed the critical data review and prepared the manuscript All authors read and approved the final manuscript Additional files The following Additional...
... DMe Alive DM Death DM Death DM Death DM Death DM Alive Out-come a Lateral, bMedial, cInvasive ductal carcinoma, dInvasive Paget’s disease, eDistance metastasis patients had lung metastasis and ... nodes in the infra or supraclavicular fossa or in the internal mammary chain was considered as a regional recurrence Any recurrence outside these areas was defined as DM Statistical Analysis LRR and ... clear surgical margins (>1 mm) Axillary lymph node staging was performed in all patients Pathological staging was reviewed based on AJCC 2002 The date of evaluation was January 2009 Patient-related...
... Republican War on Science, journalist Chris Mooney made the case that, again and again, even overwhelming scientific consensus has met immovable political obstacles And, again and again, those obstacles ... (now-dissolved) Tobacco Institute of Australia The teaching of creationism is much less of a hot button issue in Australia than in America, partly because belief in Biblical literalism is much weaker ... less in pretending that DDT (a commodity chemical) isa panacea for malaria and as far as I can see none at all in “intelligent design” Intelligent design isn’t even a particularly congenial theory...
... Recent analysis on Maghreb countries’ revealed comparative advantage and export specialization also reveals that Tunisia’s exports of beverages have a strong comparative advantage in the Maghreb market ... remains much lower than in other regional groupings Advances in intra-industry trade over the period were mainly due to increases in intra-industry trade in machinery and transportation goods in ... prospects for regional integration is whether thereis potential for increased intraregional merchandise trade after accounting for other factors deterring trade, such as market size, geographical and...
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... however, and there was also a significant increase in the cardiac index in the NAC-treated group [20] Conclusions This is an exciting time for intensivists involved in the care of patients with sepsis, ... microcirculation and thus oxygen extraction, while at the same time attenuating inflammatory responses Prostacyclin, a prostaglandin synthesized in endothelial cells, isa potent vasodilator and an inhibitor ... TNF-α and IL-6 and reduced the mortality rate in premature infants with sepsis [13] NAC in animal experimental and human sepsis NAC increases nitric oxide synthesis and cGMP Several studies have...
... correlating an increase in MAP with an increase in cardiac index [6] Using epinephrine as a first line agent, Moran et al [7] reported a linear relationship between epinephrine dosage and heart rate, ... does adrenaline have arole as a first-line inotropic agent? Anaesth Intensive Care 1992, 20: 470-474 Moran JL, O’Fathartaigh MS, Peisach AR, Chapman MJ, Leppard P: Epinephrine as an inotropic agent ... epinephrine (MAP and cardiac index increase) were obtained without the adjunction of dobutamine This may prove to be important from a practical standpoint in situations such as transportation Arrhythmia...
... patients not taking platelet active medication and having primary myocardial revascularisation This patient population appears not to have observed safety issues when tranexamic acid was administered ... study adds to the data questioning if tranexamic acid administration has a place in higher risk cardiac surgery and especially in surgery where a cardiac chamber is opened Competing interests In ... of aprotinin versus tranexamic acid in cardiac surgery Anesth Analg 2009, 110:21-29 Fodstad H, Forssell A, Liliequist B, Schannong M: Antifibrinolysis with tranexamic acid in aneurysmal subarachnoid...
... D-Dimer for DVT, Troponin I and Creatin kinase(CK-MB) for ACS (Troponin T at the central laboratory), and CRP for AA and ABI The POCT- analysis was performed in the AQT-90 (Radiometer) The AQT-90 is ... results are available after 15-20 minutes depending on the parameter analyzed The AQT-90 analysis for TnI has been shown to be marginally inferior to two laboratory assays in diagnosing AMI [10], and ... et al.: Point of care technology or standard laboratory service in an emergency department: istherea difference in time to action? A randomised trial Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation...
... discrepancies between the time used for weaning and time available for weaning and 2) to analyse the patient and systemic factors were associated with the time available for weaning that is actually ... actually used for weaning The time used versus time available for weaning ratio represents a new way of reporting the weaning status and process at an organisational level Although various patient ... weaning in an intensive care unit in Norway Nurs Health Sci in press Katz MH: Multivariable Analysis: A Primer for Readers of Medical Research Ann Intern Med 2003, 138:644-650 Esteban A, Alia...
... data thereafter Data analysis and statistics Descriptive data are presented as raw numbers and as a percentage of overall cases or events Data on adverse events (ICU admission due to ward CA and ... hospitals that had not introduced an MET service using the first year of data as baseline and the second year as comparator Finally, an additional and similar analysis was performed for hospitals ... undertaken using the information contained within the database Assessment on timing of introduction of MET service We obtained information from a database maintained by the ANZICS ARCCCR and derived...
... fills a gap that would otherwise exist in small farmers' access to inputs (including, in this case, information) Hence, the changes have assisted small farmers both through an increase in price and ... pan-territorial pricing For them, functioning markets have largely disappeared The status quo ante was one of a sole parastatal buyer; the status quo is that often thereis no buyer at all or, if there is, ... trade are so poor that transactions occur on a barter basis It is difficult to disentangle the relative importance of institutional and infrastructural factors in this market failure There has...
... of a situation in which they are aware of the risk that ‘harm’ may arise, but they argue that the disorder isa late-onset disorder, as a consequence not manifesting itself for many years Again, ... during pregnancy that we have today, far more information is now available as to the health/viability of the fetus It is inevitably the case that the volume of such information will increase in ... jurisdiction regulation may indeed be inadequate in health care law 107 108 J McHale Repaying the state An alternative is to say to the individual/couple: ‘Yes, you may reproduce ina ‘‘risky’’...
... nations in the Caribbean Sea namely: i the CARICOM (Caribbean Community)states of AntiguaBarbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Montserrat, St Kitts-Nevis, St Lucia, ... up of Africans, East Indians, Asians, White Europeans and descendants of Native Americans (the Caribs and Arawaks) Furthermore, thereis mixing and inter-marrying among the races giving rise to ... say that this is something typically Caribbean New filmmakers Howard and Mitzi Allen, who have already produced two feature films in Antigua, feel that thereisa Caribbean cinema Indeed, this...
... guarantees are guarantees granted by third parties in favor of borrowers Data are drawn from Statistical Return Loans and Bad Loans Data are drawn from Statistical Return Average Loan Life This ... that lenders ask for guarantees when borrowers are more risky and, thus, interest rates are higher Data and summary statistics This paper uses aggregated and individual Italian bank and firm data ... (2006), argue that larger banks should have a comparative advantage in terms of borrower risk Market concentration is measured by the Herfindhal index at the national level This variables, therefore,...
... creation and finalisation of this report Team Members: Anuradha Sanghavi Arun Swaminathan Avinash Kalia H.Sadhak Gautam Mehra Harsh Bisht Jesal Lakdawala Malvika Singh Nehal D Sampat Nidhi Jain ... Sneha Bhagat Trisha Chatterji Vivek Prasad Leader – Asset Management Tel: +91 22 66891155 Email: gautam.mehra @in. pwc.com Avinash Kalia Associate Director Tel: +91 22 66691401 Email: avinash.kalia @in. pwc.com ... would include registering and setting minimum professional standards, including certification of investment advisors, laying down rules and regulations and enforcing those informing and educating...
... expressed as mean ± standard deviation (SD) or as number and percentage where appropriated Statistical analysis was performed with STATA http:// www.stata.com with Student t test for unpaired data or ... diabetes is related to a multivariate genegene interaction and gene-enviromental interaction Conclusion So, our data pointed out again an interesting aspect of the linking between FVL gene variant, ... study on a retrospective analysis we may speculate that our results are of great interest from a clinical point of view, although at this moment did not raise a statistical significance Furthermore,...
... studies are not suitable for hypothesis testing Results from quantitative analyses, assuming adequate sampling and appropriate statistical analyses are objective and comparable Data from this type ... performance enhancement and/or health maintenance [10,15,34-37] including: caffeine, ephedrine, creatine, whey protein, antioxidants, ginseng, multivitamins, vitamin C, iron, Echinacea and magnesium ... athletes can be investigated by analyzing quantitative or qualitative data Although qualitative approaches have the advantage of producing deep understanding of athletes' motivations, data from these...