medical emergencies in dental clinic

... responsibility for staff training by conducting disaster and disaster-related courses and training The involvement of the same people in both planning for emergencies and disasters, training the staff for ... casualties, most of them teenagers The following investigation revealed certain short-comings regarding the medical response, recognizing the need of a regional point of contact ("POC") and command and ... officer (RTiB) (RN, specialized in emergency care combined with further training in disaster medicine as well as in depth knowledge about the available regional medical resources) and a back-up...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 09:56

... Barash PG: Management of in- flight medical emergencies Anesthesiology 2008, 108:749-755 Wagner JL, Ruskin KJ: Pulse oximetry: basic principles and applications in aerospace medicine Aviat Space Environ ... Vol 13 No Ruskin aerospace medical researchers, and the traveling public Sand and colleagues’ study should serve as a template for future research in this important area Competing interests The ... competing interests References Sand M, Bechara FG, Sand D, Mann B: Surgical and medical emergencies on board European aircraft: a retrospective study of 10189 cases Crit Care 2009, 13:R3 Ruskin...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:06

... 95.44 Testing (%) Present Present Hypothetical 82.98 87.45 92.82 92.07 87.63 Data The training set includes 349 clinical notes, with 11,967 assertions of medical problems The test set includes ... labeling for clinical texts We showed that it is possible to improve performance on recognizing minority classes by 1-vs-all strategy and richer features designed with the minority classes in mind ... Identifying Negated Findings and Diseases in Discharge Summaries Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 34:301-310 Wendy W Chapman, David Chu, and John N Dowling 2007 ConText: An Algorithm for Identifying...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 05:20

... PACS Figure Outline of a PACS infrastructure comprising the most common components in an imaging institution Figure Evolution of PACS research and current trends Medical Imaging in Clinical Practice ... works of art in museums and images in the internet, but we know of no use-case in a clinical context Other, more complex types of query can be expressed over these Medical Imaging in Clinical Practice ... its integration with the medical imaging infrastructures 17 18 Medical Imaging in Clinical Practice • PACS and DICOM integration We proposed an approach that complements a PACS by externalizing...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 05:21

... PACS Figure Outline of a PACS infrastructure comprising the most common components in an imaging institution Figure Evolution of PACS research and current trends Medical Imaging in Clinical Practice ... works of art in museums and images in the internet, but we know of no use-case in a clinical context Other, more complex types of query can be expressed over these Medical Imaging in Clinical Practice ... its integration with the medical imaging infrastructures 17 18 Medical Imaging in Clinical Practice • PACS and DICOM integration We proposed an approach that complements a PACS by externalizing...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 09:20

... events in different domains with the help of experiments in learning temporal relations in clinical text Specifically, we observe that we get better results in learning to rank chains of medical ... MEs in a chain The ranking error on the test set is 28.2% On introducing the time-bin feature, the ranking error drops to 16.8% The overall accuracy of ranking MEs on including the time-bin feature ... events using a ranking approach Representation of Medical Events (MEs) Clinical narratives contain unstructured text describing various MEs including conditions, diagnoses and tests in the history...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 17:20

... (100.0%) Table 3: Institution where the clinical officers did their internship against the Institution of intership District Hospital CHAM Hospital Central Hospital Outside Malawi Not indicated Total ... rates by specific preoperative morbidity in this group of CS patients are presented in Table 10, indicating that eclampsia and clinical signs of uterine rupture had the highest rates at around ... within the next eight years Success stories from Sri Lanka [7] and Malaysia [8] point to human resources as a crucial factor in reducing maternal mortality In order to cope with the ever-increasing...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20

... using clinical management 35.1 100 184.9 31.6 34.7 9.8 175.1 activities for EL in HS 21 Effectiveness of some intervention indicators was quite high: The index EL had clinic and counseling in ... strengthening the clinical network for the EL; Enhance Community-based operating (CBM) Capacity in clinic for EL through organizing regular clinical activities for EL at commune; monitoring management, ... outpatient hospital 89.5 Clinical inpatient hospital 1315.3 Region General Clinic 145.1 Total 264.2 Clinic average cost / EL / time, the highest was inpatient hospital clinic (over 1.3 million),...

Ngày tải lên: 25/07/2014, 14:07

... Urological Emergencies in Clinical Practice Springer London Berlin Heidelberg New York Hong Kong Milan Paris Tokyo Urological Emergencies in Clinical Practice Hashim Hashim, ... suprapubic pain as can carcinoma in situ Gynaecological causes of suprapubic pain include endometriosis, fibroids, and ovarian pathology Gastrointestinal causes of suprapubic pain include in ammatory ... etc Painful inability to empty the bladder is defined as urinary retention Urinary tract infection is usually associated with urethral burning or scalding on voiding; frequent, low-volume voiding;...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 11:20

... catheter removal increases the chances of voiding successfully (30% taking placebo voiding successfully, and 50% taking an alpha doing so; McNeill et al 1999) However, LOWER URINARY TRACT EMERGENCIES ... haematuria, despite full investigation with cystoscopy, renal ultrasound, and intravenous urography (IVU) (Khadra 2000) Thus, blood in the urine may be a completely coincidental finding in a patient who ... radiates to the groin as the stone passes into the lower ureter The pain may change in location, from the flank to the groin, but the location of the pain does not provide a good indication of the...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 11:20

... tract infection (frequency, urgency, suprapubic pain, urethral burning or pain on voiding) that led to the ascending infection, which resulted in the subsequent acute pyelonephritis The infecting ... PERINEPHRIC ABSCESS, AND EMPHYSEMATOUS PYELONEPHRITIS— MAKING THE DIAGNOSIS Maintaining a degree of suspicion in all cases of presumed acute pyelonephritis is the single most important thing in ... no clinical response to the above include a combination of piperacillin and tazobactam This combination is active against enterobacteria, enterococci, and Pseudomonas ᭿ Gentamicin is used in...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 11:20

... creatinine estimation If the creatinine level is higher than that of serum, the fluid is urine (the creatinine level will be at least 300 mmol/L) Flank pain if the ureter has been ligated An abdominal ... bleeding While this may control bleeding in some cases, in others a rising or persistently elevated pulse rate (with later hypotension) indicates the possibility of persistent bleeding and is an indication ... urine within the peritoneal cavity Prolonged postoperative fever or overt urinary sepsis Persistent drainage of fluid from abdominal or pelvic drains, from the abdominal wound, or from the vagina...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 11:20

... McAninch (2002) recommends repair of the ureteric injury, with nephrectomy being performed only in those cases where a urine leak develops postoperatively (as evidenced by continuing drainage ... reimplanted into bladder The incision is closed lengthways c FIGURE 5.12 a: Oblique incision, which is opened at right angles to the line of incision b: Creating the psoas hitch c: Placing the hitch ... psoas minor Cut ureter Common iliac artery Oblique incision in bladder a The incision is lengthened at right angles to the line of incision b Hitch stitches between bladder and psoas minor Ureter...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 11:20

... poorer images The key point in CT cystography is to instill the contrast retrogradely through a catheter inserted into the bladder—CT cystography using intravascularly administered contrast can ... ureteric injuries (Presti and Carroll 1996) Indeed, in a series of 50 patients undergoing single-shot intraoperative IVU, the renal collecting system and ureter were not visualised at all in 35% ... abdominal or pelvic surgery, a drain may have been left and there may be persistent output of fluid (urine) from this The creatinine level in this fluid will be greater than that in serum Imaging...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 11:20

... from the characteristic history (snapping sound, sudden detumesence, and pain during intercourse) and findings on clinical examination (marked swelling and bruising of the penis) Treatment Two broad ... ‘zipper’ injuries (catching the end of the penis in the zipper of the patient’s trousers), injuries as a consequence of inserting the penis into vacuum cleaners, and injuries occurring as a consequence ... fracture site in the tunica albuginea, evacuating the haematoma, and closing the defect in the tunica The fracture site can be exposed by degloving the penis via a circumcising incision made...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 11:20

... ciprofloxacin by mouth Apply a ring block to the base of the penis using a 26-gauge needle Use 10 mL of 1% plain lignocaine or 10 to 20 mL of 0.5% plain bupivacaine (Marcaine) to the skin at the ... Haemoglobin electrophoresis for sickle cell test ᭿ Urinalysis including urine toxicology ᭿ Blood gases taken from either corpora, using a blood gas syringe to aspirate blood, will help in differentiating ... insert.) Longitudinal incision oedematous foreskin Transverse closure of incision FIGURE 6.6 A dorsal slit with the longitudinal incision closed transversely foreskin, and hopefully preventing further...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 11:20

... women vaginal examination may reveal a hard, craggy mass arising from the cervix In terms of clinical examination, it is advisable to perform a DRE in both men and women Vaginal examination should ... lymphadenopathy Emergency Treatment In cases of prostate cancer high-dose dexamethsone has been shown to result in an improvement in urine output and reduction in serum creatinine within 24 to 48 hours (Hamdy ... squeezing the meatus to prevent it from coming back out of the meatus Insert the catheter using the sterile hand, until flow of urine confirms it is in the bladder Failure of urine flow may indicate...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 11:20

... imaging in, 95–97 Urethral tears, 112 Urethrogram, retrograde, 93, 94 Urinary retention, acute, 9–15 Urinary septicaemia, 45–48 Urinary system, injuries to, 83–92 Urinary tract infection, Urinary ... lying in the bed, having fallen out If this does not work, and the patient is female, then it is quite easy to burst the balloon using a needle introduced alongside your finger into the vagina ... Bulbocavernosus reflex, and spinal cord and cauda equina compression, 11 184 INDEX ‘Butterfly-wing’ bruising, due to rupture of Buck’s fascia, 109–110 C Caesarean section, bladder injuries during, 107 Catheterisable...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 11:20

... exercise planning), explaining complex drug regimens and coordinating treatment plans with other physician-specialists (Tresolini, 1994) Finally, clinical conversations have become increasingly complex ... during Objective Structured Clinical Examinations In the late 1970s, Harden (Harden & Gleeson, 1979) developed the idea of using standardized patients in OSCEs to assess clinical interviewing ... relationship-centered care in diagnostic medical interviewing Medical schools want to produce relationship-centered physicians who are skilled in fluidly building and maintaining rapport while navigating a patient‟s...

Ngày tải lên: 24/08/2014, 11:06

... According to local procedures and international Utstein Guidelines, key variables important in determining mechanism of injury (MOI) in MVA patients include high vehicle speed, patient location in ... precludes using these data to re-assess the RTS coefficients in a Norwegian trauma population Continuous reviewing within EMS services is crucial for improving medical documentation Our findings imply ... analysis, and in the revising and final approval of the manuscript Competing interests TS is a research fellow in the Norwegian Air Ambulance Foundation SS has no competing financial interests to...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 09:56