... development of ALI/ARDS, we continued to screen enrolled patients daily for the development of other clinical risk conditions Screening for ALI/ARDS diagnosis was continued for days unless another ... another clinical insult developed, in which case follow-up was continued for a total of 14 days When a diagnosis of ALI was made we continued to follow patients daily to document potential conversion ... admissions Data coordination and quality assurance We held monthly meetings between physicians at all centres, including the coordinating centre (Hospital Universitario de Getafe), to address issues...
Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 08:20
... outcome? • What type of ventilator management strategy should I employ for this patient in the operating room? • Any other adjuvant therapies/management I should be considering when managing this ... Lung Injury? Toxic Effects of High Fractions of Inspired Oxygen High Volume or Pressure relating to increased permeability and edema in the injured lung Capillary stress failure from over ... increase in proinflammatory cytokines Ware 2000 Alveolar opening/closing Pressure Haitsma 2003 Ventilating in a safe zone •Lower Inflection Point -Alveolar closing pressure below this -Apply enough...
Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 12:20
Tài liệu Guidance for Clinical Investigators, Industry, and FDA Staff Financial Disclosure by Clinical Investigators ppt
... not be submitting the marketing application, the IND/IDE sponsor is still responsible for collecting financial information from the clinical investigators The responsibility for reporting financial ... reliability of the data (21 CFR § 54.5(c)) including: Initiating agency audits of the data derived from the clinical investigator in question; Requesting that the applicant submit further analyses of ... and Human Services submitted a management advisory report to FDA stating that FDA's failure to have a mechanism for collecting information on "financial conflicts of interest" of clinical investigators...
Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 21:20
báo cáo sinh học:" Postoperative outcome of caesarean sections and other major emergency obstetric surgery by clinical officers and medical officers in Malawi" docx
... of life-saving major surgery, particularly at district level Competing interests The author(s) declare that they have no competing interests Authors' contributions Other factors than events surrounding ... officers (COs) as early as 1976 These are non-doctors trained locally for three years After completing a year of internship either at the central or district hospital, they (like medical officers ... majority of such operations were carried out to cater for emergencies, elective caesareans constituting a small minority We recruited one qualified nurse midwife working in the maternity unit as...
Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20
báo cáo sinh học:" A cost-effectiveness study of caesarean-section deliveries by clinical officers, general practitioners and obstetricians in Burkina Faso" doc
... measure with providers, adjusting for reported diagnosis and referral status (a proxy for the severity of cases) Costing assumptions The main assumptions made in costing relate to the time of surgical ... government since October 2006) and therefore not included in our costing, which is from a health service perspective The costing exercise was conducted in West African CFA (Communauté financière ... officers, we model an enhancement of their training, consisting of a refresher course every two years and more effective supervision The costs of putting in place a clinical officer-led surgical team...
Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20
Nghiên cứu đặc điểm lâm sàng, cận lâm sàng và hiệu quả thông khí bảo vệ phổi ở bệnh nhân dập phổi có ALI ARDS
... ích vượt trội thông khí bảo vệ phổi bệnh nhân dập phổi có ALI/ARDS Trên sở kết thu nhận nghiên cứu giúp nhà gây mê hồi sức, hồi sức cấp cứu Việt Nam tiếp tục sử dụng biện pháp thông khí bảo vệ ... giao thông Nguyên nhân chấn thương: Nguyên nhân chấn thương dẫn đến dập phổi nghiên cứu chủ yếu tai nạn giao thông 82,5%; đến tai nạn lao động 17,5% Thống kê Hoa Kỳ cho thấy tai nạn giao thông ... PaO2/FiO2, PaCO2, pH Mục tiêu 2: Đánh giá hiệu thông khí bảo vệ phổi bệnh nhân dập phổi có ALI/ARDS - Hiệu chức hô hấp: Cải thiện oxy hóa máu, thông khí, học phổi: áp lực bình nguyên, độ giãn...
Ngày tải lên: 12/07/2014, 13:41
measurement and comparison of credit risk by a markov chain an empirical investigation of bank loans in taiwan
... a firm changed its rating cannot be distinguished Therefore, the continuous-time Markov chain models were also adopted for valuing the credit risk of bank loans 3.2 The continuous-time Markov ... and continuous-time estimators Rather than extracting default rates from the discrete-time transition matrix, the continuous-time transition matrix analyze default probabilities by incorporating ... the estimated results of different methods Since continuous-time methods incorporate full information of rating transitions, it seems that continuous-time approaches bring more efficient results...
Ngày tải lên: 13/07/2014, 21:13
Báo cáo y học: " Interrelated modulation of endothelial function in Behcet''''s disease by clinical activity and corticosteroid treatmen" ppt
... restore endothelial dysfunction by counteracting the harmful effects of relapsing inflammation Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests Authors' contributions ADP ... atherosclerotic process, as well as its reversibility, have been confirmed in various clinical settings, including systemic vasculitis, rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosous and systemic ... corticosteroid treatment on endothelial function in patients with chronic inflammatory diseases Interestingly, administration of corticosteroids improves endothelial function in patients with giant cell...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:21
Báo cáo khoa học: "Isolation of Aspergillus spp. from the respiratory tract in critically ill patients: risk factors, clinical presentation and outcome" potx
... very high Competing interests The author(s) declare that they have no competing interests Authors' contributions All of the authors were involved in designing the study and collecting data JGM ... years Apart for eight patients with Aspergillus infection, the remaining 28 patients had debilitating underlying disorders, with COPD (n = 16), immunosuppression (n = 20) and chronic renal failure ... cultures were negative Eleven patients died, and in the remaining nine patients treatment was discontinued R196 after clinical cure Mean duration of treatment in these nine patients was 18 days (range...
Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 22:21
Báo cáo y học: " Can ‘permissive’ hypercapnia modulate the severity of sepsis-induced ALI/ARDS" doc
... coordinate the activation of the adaptive immune response in the setting of infection by presenting foreign antigen to lymphocytes and secreting chemokines Both monocytes and macrophages phagocytose and ... the setting of abdominal sepsis However, in the setting of prolonged pneumonia, the immunosuppressive effects of hypercapnia remain a concern While the use of ventilation strategies resulting in ... extracellular acidosis (pH 6.5) also appears to enhance the antigen presenting capacity of dendritic cells [30] The net effect of these contrasting actions of metabolic acidosis on the adaptive immune response...
Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 07:21
International payment: Analysis the risk by the foreign exchange on FOREX
... it works? Position limit Loss limit The risk involved based on the effect if the continuous and usually fluctuating shift in the worldwide market supply and demand balance on an outstanding foreign ... Different from other sectors of the world financial system Heightened sensibility to a large and continuously changing number of factors Accessibility to all individuals and corporative traders Trader’s ... The loss limit is a measure designed to avoid unsustainable losses made by traders by means of setting stop loss levels It is imperative that you have stop loss orders in place 1 Exchange rate...
Ngày tải lên: 24/04/2015, 15:19
A comprehensive review of catheter associated urinary tract infections pathogenesis, risk factors, clinical and laboratory features and contribution to hospital costs, morbidity an
... for continuous variables, the differences were compared by Student’s t-test; all testing was two-sided For calculation of univariate relative risk ratios and multivariable analyses, continuous ... made across the catheter-collection tube junction at the outset and inspected every day permitting continuous assessment of the integrity of closed drainage (Garibaldi et al 1974) Catheter care ... first disinfecting the port with 10% povidone iodine; a concommittant sample was obtained from the drainage bag with another sterile syringe, puncturing the drainage tube, after disinfecting the surface,...
Ngày tải lên: 11/09/2015, 21:28
Báo cáo y học: "The association of meat intake and the risk of type 2 diabetes may be modified by body weight"
... on daily activity such as walking, stair climbing, cycling, household activities and daily commuting to and from work (walking and cycling) We calculated the metabolic equivalents for each activity, ... reported having been diagnosed with type DM and met at least one of the following criteria: fasting glucose level of at least mmol/L on at least two occasions or an oral glucose tolerance test ... risk factors for diabetes such as age, kcal/day, BMI, WHR, vegetable intake (all entered as continuous variables), level of education (none, elementary school, middle/high school, college), family...
Ngày tải lên: 31/10/2012, 16:49
Tài liệu Risk Factors in Implant Denistry: Simplified Clinical Analysis for Predictable Treatment ppt
... modifying the situation and reducing or eliminating excessive risk factors (for example, by reducing or eliminating cantilevers, modifying the occlusion, inserting extra implants, etc) 53 Chapter Biomechanical ... patient's schedule is not accommodating, it i s preferable not to initiate complex treatments requiring frequent recalls, such as guided tissue regeneration, bone grafting, etc (Drawing by Ingrid Balbi.) ... vestibule resulting from the vertical resorption of the crest Hygiene maintenance can be difficult, especially for elderly patients A prosthesis on high abutments offers an interesting solution...
Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 15:20
Tài liệu Low Back Pain Edited by Ali Asghar Norasteh docx
... that specific categories of patient assisting could contribute to LBP because of the presence of a combination of strong and conflicting evidence, and assisting patients to ambulate could possibly ... sitting does not appear to be independently causative of LBP in workers and the strength of evidence suggesting no association was consistent and rated as strong, with only one study demonstrating ... address suboptimal reporting of meta-analysis, an international group developed a guidance called “QUOROM Statement” (QUality Of Reporting Of Meta-analysis), which focused reporting meta-analysis...
Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 23:20
Tài liệu Pathophysiology and Clinical Aspects of Venous Thromboembolism in Neonates, Renal Disease and Cancer Patients Edited by Mohammed A. Abdelaal ppt
... combination of total circulating MP, P-selectin levels and Ddimer levels may help predict VTE (Rectenwald, et al 2005) This approach had a sensitivity of 73% indicating the need for further refinement ... experimental evidence to suggest that circulating autoantibodies trigger the formation of excess MP contributing to the prothrombotic process in these patients Circulating MP in these syndromes have been ... cytometry is the most widely employed quantitative technique The gating of small particles continues to be a challenge but flow cytomtery continues to be the only robust technique which can demonstrate...
Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 23:20
Tài liệu Cardiovascular Risk Factors Edited by Armen Yuri Gasparyan ppt
... level to cardiovascular outcomes with rosuvastatin in the Justification for Use of statins in Prevention: an Intervention Trial Evaluating Rosuvastatin (JUPITER) Am J Cardiol 2010;106(2):204-209 ... exercise testing has also been used with adolescents completing activity tests in a school setting such as the shuttle test (Flouris et al 2008) or being observed and tested in a laboratory setting ... adolescence seem to be the optimal periods for promoting good exercise habits and preventing sedentary behavior in adulthood, which turns preventing cardiovascular disease into a pediatric challenge...
Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 23:20
Undertaking a clinical audit project: a step-by-step guide docx
... set, the final part of your analysis will entail calculating the percentage of cases meeting and not meeting each standard At the standard-setting and design stages of the clinical audit cycle it ... non-applicable (not meeting standards for clinically acceptable reasons) • percentage of applicable cases meeting each standard • percentage of applicable cases not meeting each standard Where ... and, therefore, improvements in service delivery • standards continue to be met (where no changes were made) Re-auditing involves repeating each stage of the clinical audit cycle However, certain...
Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 19:20
New Advances in the Basic and Clinical Gastroenterology Edited by Tomasz Brzozowski potx
... Probiotics have several effects, including modulating the gut microbiota, promoting mucosal barrier functions, inhibiting mucosal pathogen adherence and interacting with the innate and adaptive immune ... peristaltic movements in small intestine are significantly influenced by the bacterial colonization Moreover, the decrease of intestinal motility may cause a small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO) ... homeostasis and a failure in natural nutrient absorption in the intestine, resulting in anemic diseases One of the major functions of intestine is the control of the mechanism of iron uptake and iron...
Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 20:20
Traditional and Novel Risk Factors in Atherothrombosis Edited by Efraín Gaxiola pot
... adhesion molecules (CAMs) including P-selectin and E-selectin are expressed by the endothelium, where they mediate leukocyte binding P-selectin and Eselectin bind to carbohydrates that are constitutively ... interest as potential biomarkers of ACS include the molecules P-selectin, E-selectin, ICAM-1 and VCAM-1 3.1.1 P-selectin P-selectin mediates the interaction of platelets and endothelial cells with ... coagulation or fibrinolysis factors and promoting platelet function (Kornecki et al., 1988, Moir et al., 2002) Inhibition of interaction between p-selectin and p-selectin glycoprotein ligand reduced fibrin...
Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 20:20