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... the acute injury had a predictive factor >4.17 for an abnormal scan. Blurred vision and headache were not predictive of an abnormal scan. Severe headache and headache in patients with a GCS≤15 ... indication of the initial severity of brain damage and its subsequent changes over time.3 INITIAL ASSESSMENT10 EARLY MANAGEMENT OF PATIENTS WITH A HEAD INJURY 33.2.1 THE GLASGOW COMA SCALE AND ... haematoma was related to ICI. Temporal and parietal haematomas had odds ratios of 16 and 38.2 for an ICI respectively compared to 0.6 for a frontal haematoma. One third of patients with parietal...

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... as a standard of medical care. Standards of care are determined on the basis of all clinical data available for an individual case and are subject to change as scientific knowledge and technology ... desaturated in these positions.4 MANAGEMENT AND PREVENTION STRATEGIES Management of patients with stroke: Rehabilitation, prevention and management of complications, and discharge planning A ...  Aphasia  Apraxia of speech  Arm/hand/leg weakness  Cognitive impairment  Dysarthria  Dysphagia  Facial weakness  Gait, balance and coordination problems  Perceptual impairments,...

... of a clinical evaluation. Occult distantmetastases are present in 15-30% of patients with cIII disease.95C Patients staged as cI-II on the basis of a chest CT and a negative clinical evaluation ... by an estimation of the chance of metastaticdisease given the clinical stage and symptoms.5.4.6 ADRENAL GLAND METASTASESIncidental adrenal masses are seen in approximately 0.6% of all abdominal ... place.1+2++22 MANAGEMENT OF PATIENTS WITH LUNG CANCER7.1.3 HYPERFRACTIONATED AND/OR ACCELERATED RADIOTHERAPY IN STAGE III PATIENTS A meta-analysis201 and two RCTs were identified195,202 that suggest a...

... institution-al and departmental resources. Abbreviations ACC: American College of Cardiology; AHA: American Heart Association; CABG: coronary artery binding graft; CK: creatine kinase; MACE: major ad-verse ... ini-tial and final angiograms to achieve maximal vasodi-latation. The use of glycoprotein IIb/IIIa inhibitor (Tirofiban) was at the operator’s discretion. All pa-tients maintained antiplatelet ... SES-based RESEARCH (Ra-pamycin-Eluting Stent Evaluated at Rotterdam Car-diology Hospital) and PES-based T-SEARCH (Tax-us-Stent Evaluated at Rotterdam Cardiology Hospit-al) and showed similar adjusted...

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... to a simplification of theproof of Lemma 4.7. The author is grateful to his wife, Denka Kutzarova, forconstant support and many helpful conversations about the paper. Much of this paper was ... the author enjoyed the hospitality of the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Finally, theauthor acknowledges the referee for a thorough reading of the paper ... that all hypotheses of Lemma 4.9 are satisfied. For each such k we obtain a A 3τ (a) −2W (a; η) a g,αβ(2v log 2)kk!,for some subset A of the squarefree integers a ≤ yα with ω (a) = k andP− (a) ...

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