medical conditions in pregnancy ppt

... diabetes. 16,17 Glargine, a long-acting insulin analog, was approved by the FDA in 2000 for use as basal insulin. Insulin glargine has a glycine substitution in the a-chain at position 21 and two arginines attached ... progresses, fasting glucose decreases 10 and fasting insulin increases. Despite a decrease in fasting glucose in pregnancy, basal hepatic glucose production increases and hepatic insulin sensitivity decreases. ... types of insulin have been widely used, their insulin profiles do not mimic the in vivo state as well as newer insulins and insulin analogs (Fig. 3). Use of the newer very–short-acting insulins,...

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... for medical residents receiving international health training or completing an elective. Data and commentary have been published on residents in a variety of fields including internal medicine 19,20,21 , ... Competencies and skills in global health may be taught in parallel or integrated into existing residency training. Development of excellent clinical skills and broad training in a specialty is central ... Long-range planning: In health systems in industrialized countries, monitoring resources, keeping plentiful supplies, maintaining equipment, and overseeing usage patterns are routine. Where resources...

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... care clinic visits for patients not being treated with insulin therapy, compared with patients using insulin because of visit frequency involved in adjusting insulin dosages Increase in the percentage ... mechanical means (including photocopying, recording, or information storage and retrieval) without permission in writing from RAND. Published 2005 by the RAND Corporation 1776 Main Street, P.O. ... care clinic visits for diabetes patients during the first quarter of practice guideline implementation, followed by a decline in visit rates during subsequent quarters Smaller increases in primary...

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... sweating, dizziness/fainting on standing up, heat intolerance with exertion, nausea or vomiting after meals, abdominal bloating, feeling full after a small meal, diarrhea, constipation, unintentional ... swelling (e.g., a “moon” face). Local Injury, Infection or Inflammation: Injury, infection, inflammation or surgery affecting your ankle or foot can cause local swelling/edema (e.g., in one ... 10 HIP PAIN Hip pain involves any pain in or around the hip joint and is a common complaint. The diagnosis in an individual case depends on such factors as age (e.g., osteoarthritis in older...

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... modeling elegance, Bayesian learning has been widely used in biomedical data mining research, in particular, genomic and microarray analysis. A machine learning technique gaining increasing ... Data Mining, and Text Mining in Medical Informatics: The chapter provides a literature review of various knowledge management, data mining, and text mining techniques and their applications in ... images, 3D medical informatics, and infectious disease informatics. Unit I11 presents emerging biomedical text mining and data mining research including: semantic parsing and analysis for...

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... medi- cines — and among those who make a living off them. From Alternative Medicine to Patamedicine Algora HEALING OR STEALING? Medical Charlatans in the New Age DR. JEAN-MARIE ABGRALL 22 Healing ... knowledgeable consumer, in terms of medicine or patamedicine, means preferring medicine that is “risk free”, “natural” (in the sense of “closer to nature”), “inexpensive” (with the insinuation that it ... *Mithridates, a king of Pontus, was said to have developed an immunity to poisons by self-administering them in gradually increased doses. 38 Healing or Stealing? International Congress...

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... The increasing trends of dry conditions also happen in 1961-1970 and 1981- 1990 in South Central and during the first sub- period in Highland Central Vietnam. The decreasing trends of dry conditions ... increase in North Central while decrease in South Central and Highland Central Vietnam during 1961-2007. The increasing trend of drought conditions happens in the first period 1961-1970 in ... Many indices have been devised for different types of drought, including the Rainfall Anomaly index, the Palmer Drought index (PDI), the Bhalme-Mooley index, the Standardized Anomaly index,...

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... inter-professional learning is emerging in some Canadian MD education programs. New teaching tools, including simulations, virtual patients, and various online learning techniques are being integrated ... following: ã Create opportunities for early and extensive learning in a variety of community settings, including longitudinal and integrated clerkships. ã Develop specific objectives for learning in ... learning. Recommendation VI: Diversify Learning Contexts Canadian physicians practise in a wide range of institutional and community settings while providing the continuum of medical care. In...

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... the nature of injuries and medical conditions sustained by the passengers, according to injury type. The most common injury type sustained by passengers was minor musculoskeletal injury (26 per ... successfully by the cabin crew. In another survey, involving the examination of 190 in- flight medical events, injuries related to minor trauma were the most common, at 25 per cent (6). In 84 per cent ... violent, including several cases where a drunk passenger assaulted another passenger. In several cases, these passengers required restraining by the cabin crew. In one case, involving a Boeing...

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... problem of learning temporal rela- tions between medical events in clinical text. The idea of a medical “event” in clinical text is very dif- ferent from events in Timebank. Medical events are ... for ranking, classification on clinical text and Timebank. We merge class ibefore into before. all MEs in a chain. The ranking error on the test set is 28.2%. On introducing the time-bin feature, ... back but his main complaint is fever associated with epigastric discomfort. PAST MEDICAL HISTORY Significant for polymicrobial infection in the blood as well as in the urine in July 2007 history...

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... and interpre- tation of the findings. SF participated in the drafting and editing of the manuscript, data analysis and interpretation of the findings. EC participated in the drafting and editing of ... capacity to provide training" for future health care professionals [15]. It also predicted that there would be increasing pressure to place students in training positions in the future as current experienced ... "a person teaching or training persons in medicine". The average age of medical educators in 2005 was 50.9 years [11]. This is slightly older than the average age of general medical practitioners...

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... with time. The mean heart rate during the walking task was almost constant until120minfromthebeginning,andittendedto increase gradually during the last 60 min in both groups. Unfortunately, the ... Spiegel R, Stähelin HB, Brubacher D, Ermini-Fünfschilling D, Bläsi S, Monsch AU: Dementia screening in general practice: optimised scoring for the clock drawing test. Brain Aging 2002, 2:36-43. 24. ... sustaining a fall when encountering a balance threatening situation in a fati- gued state. The finding that young and older adults showed similar fatigue-induced responses when com- pensating...

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