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... red and processed meats) to consider as the experimental arm of non-inferiority randomized trials evaluating standard anticoagulants for prophylaxis and treatment of VTE are as follows: American ... American Heart Association (AHA) step and step diets AHA step and step diets recommend plenty of fruits and vegetables, lean meat and two servings of fish per week [50] A meta-analysis of randomized ... standard anticoagulants For a hypothetical example anticoagulant prophylaxis RCTs, consider acutely ill patients admitted to hospital medical wards American Association of Chest Physician (ACCP)...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 16:20

... 3: Patient assessment, and prognostic factors A) Patient assessment A1 ) Diagnostic triage A2 ) Case history A3 ) Physical examination: Lasegue test and spinal palpation and motion tests A4 ) Imaging ... systems of classification have been adequately validated The simple and practical classification of low back pain into three categories (specific spinal pathology, nerve root pain/radicular pain, and ... the epidemiology of chronic LBP (Andersson et al 1993, Cassidy et al 1998) One involved a survey of a sample of 2184 Canadian adults between 20 and 69 years of age and revealed that, in the months...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 14:20

... strain on the bursa subacromialis and so in a typical case of "painful arc" the movement would cause less pain The most reliable test of internal and external rotation is carried out with the arms ... cervicobrachial syndrome or of pseudoradicular symptoms and of a cervicocephalic syndrome or, by exclusion diagnosis, of a cervical syndrome (table 1) 2.3 Screening of the thoracic and lumbar spine and ... Functional diagnostic examination of the thoracic and lumbar spine and the lumbar-pelvic-iliac region If the anamnesis is indicative of problems or the results of the screening are abnormal, a functional...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 00:20

... proANP and proET-1 as markers of cardiac and endothelial function, and the vasopressin precursor copeptin as a marker of stress and fluid balance ProADM, proET-1, proANP and copeptin were batch-measured ... reported associations with death or serious complications, biologic plausibility and availability [8-25] We measured PCT and proADM as markers of bacterial infection and inflammation; the atrial-natriuretic ... μg/L and functional assay sensitivity of 0.06 μg/L Statistical analysis Development and assessment of prognostic models To assess the univariate predictive potential of the five biomarkers and all...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:02

... genotypes A A A antigen Anti-B AA or AO B B B antigen Anti -A BB or BO AB AB A and B antigens None AB O O None Anti -A and anti-B OO ABO phenotypes and possible genotypes Are ABO blood group antibodies ... individuals produce a naturally occurring clinically insignificant cold reacting anti -A1 ABO Groups Phenotype Possible genotype A A1 A1 A1, A1 A2, A1 O B B BB and BO AB A1 B and A2 B A1 B and A2 B O O ... isoantibodies to antigen H as well as to both A and B antigens are present in their serum/plasma This antibody is so called naturally acquired and acts as both an agglutinin and a haemolysis and...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 15:20

... predisorders of pregnancy (part of ANC) eclampsia and eclampsia 3 .a Prevention (iron supplementation) and screening for anaemia (part of ANC) 3.b Treatment of mild to moderate anaemia (Hb:7-11g/dl) 4 .a ... placenta praevia and abruption placenta (1%)) 5.b Presumptive treatment of syphilis (1-10% of all pregnant women) 6.b STI/RTI management (Candida vaginitis, gonorrhoea, Chlamydia, bacterial vaginosis ... vaginosis and trichomoniasis), (5-10% of all pregnant women) 5 .a Screening for maternal syphilis (part of ANC), 6 .a STI/RTI diagnosis (Candida vaginitis, gonorrhoea, Chlamydia, bacterial vaginosis and...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 14:20

... Salma Mohd Said Mrs Lydia John Zungufya Mrs Mayassa Ali Salum Mr Mohd Omar Mohd Mr Haji Juma Haji Mr Shija Joseph Shija Mr Zahran Ali Hamad Dr Mkasha Hija Mkasha Dr Hassan Ameir Haji Mr Haji Ameir ... mismanaged, particularly in the confusion during and after armed conflict or a natural disaster Staff and storage space may be lacking and pharmaceutical management system in disarray Smaller quantities ... with a full set of technical documents That is, documentation for installation, for user operation, for repair and maintenance (manuals), a list of spare parts and diagrams and technical data should...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 12:20

... less often recognized as a problem In a food laboratory, for example, a six-unit Kjeldarl1 digestion and distillation apparatus was installed against a wall and the hot air was drawn off overhead ... Are areas for handling hazardous materials properly segregated? Are areas of potential hazards away from important traffic lanes? When all these questions are answered to the planner's satisfaction, ... can estimate space requirements, check a proposed layout for practical and safe operation, and recommend allowances for future expansion Regardless of the amount of professional assistance available,...

Ngày tải lên: 31/05/2014, 01:37

... total circuit and incidental noise is random with a worstcase peak to peak spread of 3.87 mV As the negative and positive excursions are relatively uniform about a mean, EURASIP Journal on Advances ... the case of a hand-held instrument, allows for a “snapshot” of the data stream to be made manually at a time chosen by the operator Use of this additional facility does not interrupt the data stream ... environmental EMR and internal circuit generated noise and furnishes a compact and low cost method for the capture and integrated digital processing of measurement data in a range of situations including...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 01:20

... health stations have a high available rate but the rate of approach of the EL is low or zero This gives the status of a lack of initiative and flexibility in health care for people in general and ... Of the total health budget for health stations each year, an average of 73.3% was for salaries and allowances for Health officers and 23.4% for health programs, the rest (3.3%) was local support ... health care needs of elderly EL and disease have been associated with closely When old, defensive power and endurance of the human against the elements and external factors as well as inside a...

Ngày tải lên: 25/07/2014, 14:07

... for each sample were calculated and used for statistical analyses Abbreviations Data analysis Microarray data were first normalized using RMA [68] and normalized data were subsequently analyzed ... RAM participated in data analysis and interpretation NG and RP performed statistical analysis J-XS participated in experimental design, data analysis and interpretation, writing and editing of ... Gapin L: The unconventional lifestyle of NKT cells Nat Rev Immunol 2002, 2:557-568 Kawamura H, Kameyama H, Kosaka T, Kuwahara O, Bannai M, Kawamura T, Watanabe H, Abo T: Association of CD8+ natural...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 20:22

... personnel organization, medical standards and norms, professional regulations - Didactic materials on guaranteeing ordnance task in the Military, on organizing command of military health and military ... floor area of 350m 2, a health examination room, a treatment room, a laboratory, a fundamental medicine storage guaranteeing medical examination and treatment at K20 infirmary - Regarding human ... Surveying the reality of the disease model and the task of guaranteeing medical materials of K20, namely: - Analyzing the reality of medical examination and treatment, the ratio of wounded soldiers,...

Ngày tải lên: 29/09/2014, 16:23

... or any combination of the above factors A separate study at a teaching hospital in Melbourne, Australia assessed the effect of the MET on in-hospital surgical and medical mortality in the years ... revealed that there was a negative relationship between the proportion of RRT calls that were early emergency team calls and the rates of unexpected cardiac arrests, overall cardiac arrests, and unexpected ... the circadian variation of detection of cardiac arrests and MET review activations Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Figure Scatter plot and line of regression showing association...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:06

... Alcaligenes xylooxidans, E faecalis and faecium, K pneumoniae, MRSA and S maltophilia from the respiratory tract, Candida species and E faecium from blood cultures, and E faecium and A fumigatus ... patients, including rapid stabilization of vital parameters, physical and neurological examination, radiography and laboratory analysis Patients on catecholamines upon arrival showed clinical ... fluid and opaque material in the ethmoid, maxillary, and sphenoid sinuses (Figure 6a, 6b) and purulent material and sand was removed via repeated washouts Cultures from this material as well as...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:41

... follow-up at one year, VARA and administrative data were used to create a gold standard and claims-based effectiveness algorithm The gold standard outcome was low disease activity (LDA, disease activity ... evaluation of a large number of patients participating in an RA registry at 11 VHA medical centers All patients had rheumatologist-confirmed RA and wellcharacterized measures of RA disease activity ... medical and pharmacy claims Among VARA enrollees, we used claims data to identify eligible individuals who initiated a biologic agent, defined as abatacept, adalimumab, etanercept, infliximab and...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:45

... loudspeakers and paging system, and a detailed log of all calls is maintained Criteria for medical emergency team activation Calling criteria for our MET service are based on acute changes in heart ... medical staff should be available on a 24-hour basis to assess and treat acutely ill hospital patients Utilization of a MET system has been associated with a reduction in all-cause hospital mortality ... period and related this to aspects of nursing and medical daily routine Materials and methods The hospital Austin Health is a university-affiliated teaching hospital with three hospital campuses...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:45

... features of cases Hepatobilliary Pancreat Dis Int 2006;5:300-304 Zhang H, Liang TB, Wang WL, et al Diagnosis and treatment of solid-pseudopapillary tumor of the pancreas Hepatobilliary Pancreat ... 16 of the 18 patients In the rest of two patients, ultrasonography was carried out and revealed a solid-cystic neoplasm of the pancreas patients in all 18 cases underwent ultrasonography, CT and ... may help to make the correct diagnosis and differentiation from other pancreatic neoplasms Abdominal ultrasound and CT scan usually demonstrate a huge, well-encapsulated mass with both solid and...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 11:40

... Length of follow-up was at least years with a maximum of years Location of facet pain was cervical in 45, thoracic in 15, and lumbar in 114 patients Surgical times varied based on the number of joints ... medial branch, Staender et al 17 reported a mean VAS pain score reduction of 3.3 at six months follow-up; 40% of patients had relief for at least 12 months, and mean duration of pain relief was ... receptors that adhere to the bone and capsular tissue Limitations of the current study include a lack of comparison group and lack of blinding A randomized, controlled clinical trial would be ideal to...

Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2012, 09:32

... 1,2,4,5-tetrazines and the structure of zarzissine Tetrahedron Letters 2001; 57: 5497-507 35 Bachmann WE, Deno NC The Diels-Alder Reaction of 1-Vinylnaphthalene with a, @- and a, p,y,G- Unsaturated Acids and ... DARinv technology is not restricted to application and easier handling of the BioShuttle delivery platform and of the other related carrier molecules An enhancement towards functionalization of ... substances and is able to circumvent the barriers on the way to a save and efficient transfer of therapeutic and / or diagnostics cargos into target cells and tissues It is important to point out that...

Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2012, 09:39