... the main program is busy doing something, the other threads can handle the user inputs and perform the tasks. For example, if a user wants to cancel bringing ina large amount of data from a web ... threads to handle individual tasks. For instance, if a thread performing activity A spends a significant amount of time waiting for an I/O operation to complete, another thread can be created ... pressing a button or constantly interacting with the program, are independent activities. The performance of an application can be improved by creating a separate thread for performing each of...
... critically ill patients in emergency situations. As part of their HEMS trainingprogramme, intraosseous training was given using man-ual needles, Bone Injection Guns, and EZ-IO® on bothmanikins and ... Heltne1,2,3AbstractBackground: Intraosseous access (IO) is a method for providing vascular access in out-of-hospital resuscitation ofcritically ill and injured patients when traditional intravenous access ... Newer intraosseous techniques may enable faster and more reliable vascular access, and this canlower the threshold for intraosseous access on both adult and paediatric patients in critical situations....
... objective was to gain insightinto the care and management of patients with muscu-loskeletal chest pain as experienced by both those withchiropractic training, medical training or combined train-ing.MethodsData ... pain cases presenting earlier during an episode ofcare-seeking, or more likely as a generalist to serve as a main source of care overall for an entire chest pain epi-sode. Along that same line, ... competencies,and standards for referrals and sharing of clinical informa-tion that may improve current and future cross-discipli-nary coordination of care for chest pain patients.Clinical and health...
... studies in conflict settings asdiverse as Angola [27], Afghanistan [28], and Burma(Myanmar) [29]. If a study omits children in addressingpopulation mortality, findings may exclude a large por-tion ... determine the validity of the study and the applicability of the findings to theirsettings.Public health scenarioYou are a physician working for an international human-itarian medical organization ... Uppsala Conflict Database Program (a database that contains information on armed conflicts ofthe world since 1989) [5], and the Database on theHuman Impact of Complex Emergencies (CE-DAT) [6].Using...
... Alvaro Mauricio Quintero3, Luis Gabriel González3, Nora Elena Saldarriaga4, Marisol Bedoya1, Juan Manuel Toro5, Jorge Byron Velásquez4, Juan Carlos Valencia4, Clara Maria Arango5, ... glycaemic control in patients hospitalised ina mixed medical and surgical intensive care unit: a randomised clinical trialGisela Del Carmen De La Rosa1, Jorge Hernando Donado2, Alvaro ... Arango5, Pablo Henrique Aleman1, Esdras Martin Vasquez4, Juan Carlos Chavarriaga4, Andrés Yepes4, William Pulido4, Carlos Alberto Cadavid1 and Grupo de Investigacion en Cuidado intensivo:...
... clinically relevant and irrelevant findings, and simplyreported on all abnormalities [12]. At present, in many ICUsCXRs are still routinely obtained on a daily basis, at least in TheNetherlands ... [summarized inTable 1] were absent orpresent and, if an abnormality was present, whether it wasjudged to be an 'old' or 'new' finding). In case an abnormalitywas worsening, ... The following definitions were used: a 'new expectedfinding' was any new finding that had been predicted by the Table 1Findings (expected) on daily routine chest radiographs for which...
... than O-level).Furthermore, the use of medication within the last sevendays before the examination was ascertained by an instru-ment for database-assisted online collection of medicationdata ... analysis indicates thatBBL medication and not any other antihypertensive treat-ment is associated with reduced lung function ina gen-eral adult population. Thus, our findings may serve as a basis ... Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany.7CentralHospital of Augsburg, MONICA/KORA Myocardial Infarction Registry,Augsburg, Germany.8Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Institute of MedicalData Management,...
... quality assurance surveyNatalie Chahine-Malus, Thomas Stewart, Stephen E Lapinsky, Ted Marras, David Dancey, Richard Leung and Sangeeta MehtaMount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaCorrespondence: ... beneficial to patient care. Brainsky et alobserved that 20% of routine CXRs performed ina medicalICU had ‘major important’ findings, and 8% prompted a change in management [4]. The majority of changes ... Gray et al found that clinicians werefairly accurate in determining the placement of subclavian orinternal jugular (IJ) vein pulmonary artery (PA) catheter intro-ducer sheaths, but the clinicians...
... communicated by the switchboard operatorsthrough the hospital loudspeakers and paging system, and a detailed log of all calls is maintained.Criteria for medical emergency team activationCalling ... this to aspects of nursing and medicaldaily routine.Materials and methodsThe hospitalAustin Health is a university-affiliated teaching hospital withthree hospital campuses situated in Melbourne, ... man-uscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.References1. Buist MD, Jarmolowski E, Burton PR, Bernard SA, Waxman BP,Anderson J: Recognising clinical instability in hospital patientsbefore...
... oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy. Clin Neurosci. 2003; 10: 125-7. 22. Orlacchio A, Gaudiello F, Totaro A, et al. A new SPG4 mutation in a variant form of spastic paraplegia with congenital arach-noid ... Int. J. Med. Sci. 2011, 8 http://www.medsci.org 405 16. Minamitani M, Tanaka J, Hasumura M, et al. Cerebral malfor-mations associated with probable intrauterine infection. No To Hattatsu. ... trauma, infection, intrauterine catastrophes 16 or head surgery17. In our case, the lack of a previous history of trauma, infection and head surgery leads us to believe that the AC was...
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