what imaging is appropriate for patients with blunt trauma to the abdomen
báo cáo hóa học:" Subacromial impingement in patients with whiplash injury to the cervical spine" docx
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20/06/2014, 01:20
... in the primary care sector, by a physiotherapist who was delivering the 'neck' therapy The remainder had their diagnosis made at the time of our report and subsequently advised to seek further ... (17%) patients had symptoms in the non-seatbelt shoulder But even these patients were found to have evidence of direct trauma to the non-seatbelt side of their body 'Patient 4' who was a driver with ... presentation All of the patients had noticed pain in their affected shoulder within the first week after the injury and none had pre-existing shoulder symptoms All patients had been seen by their general...
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Báo cáo y học: " ectopic pelvic kidney following blunt trauma to the lower abdomen: a case report" pdf
Ngày tải lên :
11/08/2014, 03:20
... hematoma displacing the kidney to the left lower abdomen Three months following the trauma, imaging revealed resolution of the retroperitoneal hematoma, return of the pelvic kidney to its anatomical ... tomography of the abdomen and pelvis with intravenous contrast demonstrating resolution of the retroperitoneal hematoma, return of the pelvic kidney to its anatomical position in the right pelvis, as ... injuries to the renal pedicle, or avulsion of the main renal artery [3] In this case the patient presented with multiple deep lacerations to the parenchyma of the ectopic pelvic kidney consistent with...
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Báo cáo y học: "Conservative management of a grade V injury to an ectopic pelvic kidney following blunt trauma to the lower abdomen: a case report" ppsx
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11/08/2014, 06:23
... hematoma displacing the kidney to the left lower abdomen Three months following the trauma, imaging revealed resolution of the retroperitoneal hematoma, return of the pelvic kidney to its anatomical ... tomography of the abdomen and pelvis with intravenous contrast demonstrating resolution of the retroperitoneal hematoma, return of the pelvic kidney to its anatomical position in the right pelvis, as ... injuries to the renal pedicle, or avulsion of the main renal artery [3] In this case the patient presented with multiple deep lacerations to the parenchyma of the ectopic pelvic kidney consistent with...
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Báo cáo hóa học: " Abstract Despite new additions to the standard of care therapy for high grade primary malignant brain tumors, the prognosis for patients with this disease is still poor." ppt
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18/06/2014, 16:20
... trials with a white triangle Cellular Therapy Trials The adoptive transfer of ex vivo activated cytotoxic effector cells to the patient is categorized as a form of passive immunotherapy The effector ... administered either systemically or intracranially If placed intratumorally, the effector cells may be either autologous or allogeneic to the patient The types of effector cells tested include cytotoxic ... patients The EGFRviii variant of EGFR is expressed by nearly a third of glioma specimens [32] therefore the patients enrolled must exhibit positivity for the antigen The vaccine is administered...
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Báo cáo y học: " Risks associated with magnetic resonance imaging and cervical collar in comatose, blunt trauma patients with negative comprehensive cervical spine computed tomography and no apparent spinal deficit" pdf
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13/08/2014, 11:22
... degenerative CS disease [119,120] To our knowledge, there are no data describing comatose patients with pre-existing CS disease to determine whether their risk for isolated ligamentous instability is different ... death or severe disability rate for the total population was 56.4% and, although the rate for patients with VAP is not given in the report, the estimated rate is 60% to 65% [48] The estimated functional ... comprehensive CS CT (occiput to T-1 axial views, with sagittal and coronal reformats) with the initial brain scan is appropriate This review suggests that comatose blunt trauma patients with no apparent...
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Báo cáo y học: " Empiric anti-Candida therapy for patients with sepsis in the ICU: how little is too little" docx
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13/08/2014, 18:22
... sepsis episodes are caused by Candida This estimate is higher than the to 10% estimate described in recent literature and is based upon studies that included the isolation of Candida from the ... help refine the best empiric anti-Candida strategy for ICU patients with sepsis Competing interests YG has received research funding and is on the advisory board for Merck and Pfizer YG is also a ... representatives of the general population [12,13] These overestimations exaggerate the affordability of empiric micafungin Nevertheless, the main finding of this study by Zilberberg and colleagues is encouraging...
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In order to become competent in a foreign language, it is important for language learners not only to acquire new vocabularies and a new set of phonological and syntactic rules but also to learn what Wilson (1986)
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17/04/2013, 16:09
... ngữ to n dân đòa phương cụ thể với nét khác biệt so với ngôn ngữ to n dân hay với phương ngữ khác “[8; 24] Ở đây, thấy cần phân biệt ngôn ngữ to n dân phương ngữ Phương ngữ biến thể ngôn ngữ to n ... chỉnh riêng “một nhánh tách từ thân cây” [8; 54] ngôn ngữ to n dân Ngôn ngữ to n dân trừu tượng phương ngữ cụ thể “Phương ngữ ngôn ngữ to n dân có mặt trừu tượng mặt cụ thể ” [8; 54] 1.1.4.1.2 ... diễn đạt Về ngữ pháp, ngôn ngữ to n dân phương ngữ có lẽ không khác Chính thống mặt ngữ pháp phương ngữ với với ngôn ngữ to n dân thếø tiếng Việt bảo đảm thống to n quốc “Khi việc miêu tả thu...
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báo cáo sinh học:" Training health care workers to promote HIV services for patients with tuberculosis in the Democratic Republic of Congo" pptx
Ngày tải lên :
18/06/2014, 17:20
... TB diagnosis, counseling strategies for patients who refuse to accept their HIV status, management of patients who default CPT and strategies to help patients disclose their HIV status to family ... during the training guided the revision of the initial training manual Topics that raised confusion or remained insufficiently understood were revised and more time was allocated to these topics ... equivalent to keeping the patient ignorant and that is discrimination" and "It is for the patient's own good The patient should know his serology so he can better protect himself and prolong his stay...
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báo cáo hóa học: "The psychometric validation of a US English satisfaction measure for patients with benign prostatic hyperplasia and lower urinary tract symptoms" potx
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18/06/2014, 18:20
... Discussion Measuring satisfaction with medication provides important outcome information from the patient's perspective as to their experience with the therapy and their willingness to ask their ... severe on the IPSS The scores were also significantly different for each point of the IPSS QoL score and for the low medium and high impact categories on the BII The F statistics for the PPSM Total ... range from to 14; the pain scores range from to 28; the overall satisfaction score ranges from to The total score for items 1–11 ranges from to 77 Higher scores indicate lower satisfaction Patients...
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báo cáo hóa học: " Self-efficacy instruments for patients with chronic diseases suffer from methodological limitations - a systematic review" pdf
Ngày tải lên :
18/06/2014, 19:20
... about what they want to measure with the self-efficacy scales For the development of a new instrument it seems reasonable that the first step is to clearly define the aim of the scale The subsequent ... practical issues of the questionnaire, which may include the number and type of domains to be covered, the administration formats, time to complete the questionnaire, and others The next step is the ... should then be designed to fulfill and test the aim of the instrument For example, if the aim is evaluative, this is to detect change over time, items should be selected that are modifiable and the...
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báo cáo hóa học: " A flexible routing scheme for patients with topographical disorientation" potx
Ngày tải lên :
19/06/2014, 10:20
... detect the approach towards the restricted area and subsequently instruct the patient to reverse directions Results The results of routing the patients with topographical disorientation are listed ... Generally, the more prone a patient is to random navigation, the greater the effort to reach the desired destination We also remark that the variability of the results in Table increases with rising ... to a network, could generate a message to request assistance at the forthcoming link In this way, appropriate health care personnel could be dispatched to provide the required assistance at the...
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báo cáo hóa học: " Validation of a proposed WOMAC short form for patients with hip osteoarthritis" ppt
Ngày tải lên :
20/06/2014, 15:20
... information is collected to evaluate response to treatment, the goal is to involve as little effort as possible for both the patient and the physician Therefore, if using a shortened version the ... unidimensionality Analysis of the internal consistency allowed us to confirm the hypothesis that the items that comprised the pain short scale or those that comprised the function short scale measured the same ... quality units, and to the medical records sections of the participating hospitals We wish to thank all patients for their collaboration The authors also acknowledge the editorial assistance provided...
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báo cáo hóa học:" Self-efficacy instruments for patients with chronic diseases suffer from methodological limitations - a systematic review" docx
Ngày tải lên :
20/06/2014, 16:20
... about what they want to measure with the self-efficacy scales For the development of a new instrument it seems reasonable that the first step is to clearly define the aim of the scale The subsequent ... practical issues of the questionnaire, which may include the number and type of domains to be covered, the administration formats, time to complete the questionnaire, and others The next step is the ... should then be designed to fulfill and test the aim of the instrument For example, if the aim is evaluative, this is to detect change over time, items should be selected that are modifiable and the...
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Báo cáo y học: "Current pharmacologic options for patients with Alzheimer''''s disease" pps
Ngày tải lên :
08/08/2014, 20:23
... pathology is unknown, there is a correlation between the risk of AD and APOE genotype [8] The APOE-4 allele has been most closely associated with increasing the risk of AD by three- to fourfold AD is ... supervising and assisting with ADL, untreated patients required increased supervision by the caregiver and increased assistance with ADL over time, whereas patients treated with galantamine for ... AChEIs At present, there exist no clearly established guidelines for determining which specific AChEI to use for which specific patient with AD Existing clinical trials data not help to inform...
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Báo cáo y học: "Cognitive remediation therapy for patients with anorexia nervosa: preliminary findings" pptx
Ngày tải lên :
08/08/2014, 21:20
... are given to the patient to select and describe one for the therapist to draw); illusions, (visual illusion material is used (ie face/vase illusion) to encourage patients to explore the multiple ... given to the patient with instructions from the therapist A monitoring form was used to report patient performance (scoring 1– poor/good) and exercises were timed The patient was asked to generally ... experience These tasks can be discussed in the session and then carried out by the patient in their own time Feedback can then be given to the therapist in the following session A list of behavioural...
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Báo cáo y học: "Voxel-based structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) study of patients with early onset schizophrenia" potx
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08/08/2014, 23:21
... correlated with the reduced GM volume in the bilateral posterior cingulate gyrus, with the increased WM volume in the cerebellum (vermis region), and with the reduced WM volume in the brain stem and the ... indicate that the disease originates in these areas Another possible explanation is that these three regions may be more subject to brain insults that are related to the predisposition to schizophrenia ... correlations with positive symptoms This is the first study, to our knowledge, to demonstrate a relationship between positive symptoms and a decreased WM volume of the cerebellar hemisphere region The...
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Báo cáo y học: " Synovial fluid leukocyte apoptosis is inhibited in patients with very early rheumatoid arthriti" pdf
Ngày tải lên :
09/08/2014, 08:22
... these factors are not present in the joints of patients who progress to non-RA persistent disease, synovial leukocyte apoptosis was partially inhibited in these patients Therefore, other factors ... apoptosis observed for each patient is shown in Figure 2d There was a trend toward patients with RA having less synovial lymphocyte apoptosis than patients with non-RA persistent synovitis (P ... × 106) for patients with RA; 7.1 × 106 (IQR 3.1–22.6 × 106) for patients with non-RA persistent synovitis; 3.9 × 106 (IQR 0.04–11.4 × 106) for patients with resolving synovitis Patients with RA...
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Báo cáo khoa học: " Biological impact of geometric uncertainties: what margin is needed for intra-hepatic tumors" ppsx
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09/08/2014, 09:20
... objectives of the planning were to minimize the mean dose to the normal tissue with at least 95% of the PTV covered with 50 Gy In contrast to the motion study without considering the deformation, ... direction to the diaphragm movement in this study) For an arbitrary point in the organ, p, if the fluence has no distortion due to the motion of an organ, χ is constant In the calculation of the fluence ... following distortion due to organ motion, χ is substituted for the pre-known motion function, c = f p (t + t ; z , A) (2) Where fp () is the motion function for point p; ζ is the period; A is the motion...
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Báo cáo khoa học: " Stereotactic radiosurgery may contribute to overall survival for patients with recurrent head and neck carcinoma" pptx
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09/08/2014, 09:20
... the dose to the carotid artery, esophagus, and larynx were each limited to 30-35 Gy; and the dose to the eye lens was limited to 7-10 Gy The prescribed dose of radiation was administered to the ... radiation therapy, biopsies were performed for all patients, except for one for whom the recurrence was located deep in their temple muscle For that patient, diagnosis was determined based upon the ... conventional radiotherapy (14/ 22), the ability to target the radiation dose specifically to the tumor and limit the dose to surrounding, previously irradiated, tissue was also a strong indicator for SRS...
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Báo cáo khoa học: "Simultaneous in-field boost for patients with 1 to 4 brain metastasis/es treated with volumetric modulated arc therapy: a prospective study on quality-of-life" potx
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09/08/2014, 09:20
... responsible for the primary concept and the design of the study; FC, ML, KM and DCW, performed the data capture and analysis FC and DCW drafted the manuscript; DCW performed the statistical analysis; ... approach for the treatment of patients with - BMs would be a safe alternative to WBRT with or without radiosurgery The observed toxicity was minimal Less than one third of patients had alopecia at the ... (Table 4) The treatment of patients with BM can consist of best supportive care, surgery or radiosurgery with or without WBRT We have included patients with one BM in our treatment protocol as the...
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