... pneumoniae C pneumoniae Others 20% H influenzae % Etiologies of CAP – Hundreds of organisms can cause CAP • BUT – The majority of CAP are causedby a group of few organisms • S pneumoniae • H influenzae ... little side effects – Cheap Bartlett JG, et al Guidelines for the management of CAP CID 2000;31:347-82 KEY BACTERIAL PATHOGENS IN CAP Streptococcus pneumoniae is the primary recognized bacterial ... – Cost > 17,000,000,000 $ / year • Proper management reduces morbidity and cost Fine MJ, et al Prognosis of CAP; JAMA 1996;275:134-141 Management of CAP • Choosing the “right” antibiotic • Respiratory...
... Surveyed by Industry Type & Corporate Structure Table 14 Breakdown of Companies Surveyed by Industry Type & Location Table 15 Breakdown of Age of Companies Surveyed by Industry Table 16 Family (by ... 27 Company A - Management Education & Experience Table 28 Company B - Management Education & Experience Table 29 Company C - Management Education & Experience Table 30 Company D - Management Education ... Company E - Management Education & Experience Table 32 Company F - Management Education & Experience Table 33 Company G - Management Education and Experience Table 34 Company H - Management Education...
... in the Understanding and Management of Thyroid Cancer Edited by Thomas J Fahey Published by InTech Janeza Trdine 9, 51000 Rijeka, Croatia Copyright â 2012 InTech All chapters are Open Access distributed ... orders@intechopen.com Updates in the Understanding and Management of Thyroid Cancer, Edited by Thomas J Fahey p cm ISBN 978-953-51-0299-1 Contents Chapter An Epidemiological Analysis of Thyroid Cancer ... Noehammer, Klemens Vierlinger and Andreas Weinhaeusel Chapter Evaluation and Management of Pediatric Thyroid Nodules 147 Melanie Goldfarb and John I Lew Chapter Papillary Thyroid Cancer in Childhood and...
... flow grade or at angiography was reduced by 36 % with clopidogrel There was no increased bleeding risk In this study, the rate of re-infarction was reduced by nearly one half (30) In the Chinese ... mg loading dose for patients < 75 years of age followed by 75 mg/day Elderly patients should receive 75 mg clopidogrel initially, followed by 75 mg/day (5) Prasugrel, a new thienopyridine, has ... recommended adjunct treatment see Tables 4-7) The finding that most myocardial infarctions were causedby thrombotic occlusion of a coronary artery was of outstanding importance for the development...
... pneumonia causedby M pneumoniae, C pneumoniae are mild or self- limit Pneumonia causedby L pneumophila was more severe with higher mortality However, the results of our study showed that bacterial pathogens ... characteristics of atypical pneumonia causedby Mycoplasma pneumoniae, and Legionella pneumophila Chlamydia pneumoniae 1.2.1 Epidemiology characteristics of pneumonia causedby Mycoplasma pneumoniae Disease ... population Estimated number of cases of pneumonia causedby C pneumoniae in the United States is 300,000 cases per year Globally, prevalence of pneumonia causedby C pneumoniae from 4337 patients was 8%...
... sponsored jointly by the Industrial Liaison Program of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and PA Consulting Group The analyses presented here were performed by a team directed by the author, ... to other countries are now being supported by the MIT International Center for Research on the Management of Technology (ICRMOT) in the Sloan School of Management Author's Biography Edward B Roberts ... David Sarnoff Professor of Management of Technology at the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge Massachusetts, where he heads the Management of Technology...
... short-term investment management begin to dominate competitive issues at the business-unit level American firms will again begin to make longer-term investments, perhaps by creating corporate ... begin to happen within the next three years What's interesting is that the current pattern in the U.S is not occurring elsewhere The rest of the world may just be out of phase or perhaps merely ... desires But this situation can also be labeled by the more positive but riskinferring term of leveraging Internal technological resources can be leveraged by effective access to, and use of, external...
... that permits sorting by principal industry and geographic location of corporate headquarters Of the 244 companies sampled, ... Europe (34 percent), and 22 from Japan (40 percent), providing an essentially balanced response by geographic area, with slight underrepresentation of European companies To further rule out apparent ... statistical analyses of the data discussed in this article were carried at Pugh-Roberts Associates by the team of Lauri Mitchell, Mark Bamford, and out Edward Roberts 18 E O -J cu o m Q W]a- 0) _-...
... contrast, after it was first reported in the Basque area in 1880, the ink disease of chestnuts, also causedby P cinnamomi, spread throughout the south of France in about 40 years (Grente, 1961).P cinnamomi ... attacked by P cinnamoni (PPA) in each of the four plots studied A similar general trend can be observed in all the plots That is a progressive enlargement of the cankers from 1965 to 1984, followed by ... Therefore, Delatour (1986) suggested that the distribution of the ink disease might be limited by a meteorological factor The most likely factor would be temperature P cinnamomi requires warm...
... diagnosis based on gross signs of whitened muscles probably causedby muscle cramp syndrome Acknowledgements This work was supported by the Mahidol University and the National Center for Genetic ... the Network of Aquaculture Centers in Asia Pacific (NACA) has included infectious myonecrosis causedby IMNV in its list of reportable diseases from competent authorities for aquatic animal diseases ... characterized by coagulative muscle necrosis (Figure 1) that also occurs with IMNV infections However, the difference is that the coagulative necrosis in muscle cramp syndrome is not accompanied by the...
... after diagnosis by CT Unfortunately, we could not repeat the CT scan to confirm abscess formation, because repeated CT scans to check progress within 30 days are not covered by either Employees’ ... enlarged by removing some inflamed mucosa with forceps We observed no apparent pharyngeal constrictor muscle on transnasal endoscopic surgery, which may have been due to severe tissue encroachment by ... infections are usually drained through an external approach As recommended by Sethi and Stanley [9], the entire cavity is then explored by blunt finger dissection to avoid any residual purulent material,...
... using the Chi-square test Results Mastitis causedby ß-lactamase negative S aureus was found to have significantly higher cure rate than mastitis causedby ß-lactamase positive S aureus (p
... mg/m3, multiplied by the exposure time (t), in minutes The LCt50 is the Ct that kills 50% of exposed victims ICt50 is the Ct that incapacitates 50% of the exposed victims Incapacitation disables ... Percutaneous absorption of nerve agent typically results in localized sweating causedby direct nicotinic effect on the skin, followed by muscular fasciculations and weakness The latter effects are due to ... due to central respiratory depression The cardiac complications were suggested by the authors to have been causedby increased sympathetic and parasympathetic tone, hypoxaemia, acidosis and derangements...
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... issues, e.g emission of equity and loan capital • Structured Finance: Consulting and management of project funding and financing by selling liability pools • Capital Markets: Issue and placement ... with a drastic drop in demand, which was causedby the general economic downturn Professional service firms, which had previously built up considerable capacities, were suddenly facing an entirely ... value generated by a consulting service for the client can vary, depending on the PSF’s size within the subsector This is exemplary shown by different types of added value, generated by small and...
... Mountain Home University has been asked by her board of trustees to set up a separate unit to facilitate the commercialization of technology developed by the research students at the university ... applied a Knowledge brokers b Knowledge workers c Complementors d Category captains Regional districts that are set up by the government to foster R&D collaboration between government, universities, ... produced a recreational hovercraft for kids c An announcement by a cell phone company that it now offers free text messaging d An announcement by a college that it will install artificial turf on its...