... seem to be preserved and may in fact be elevated There are several important limitations of this study that deserve consideration This study included 18 patients with sepsis but none with septic ... that up to 39% of patients with low albumin levels would be misdiagnosed as being adrenally insufficient based on total cortisol levels Levels in these patients appear to be low due to hypoproteinemia ... treating patients with septic shock and adrenal insufficiency with stress doses of steroids However, there is controversy about the best indicator of adrenal insufficiency in the critically ill patients...
... Critical Care 2006, 10: 316 Gupta, Milbrandt, and Chelluri reduction in 28-day mortality in adults with severe sepsis as compared to placebo The greatest benefit was seen in patients ... death despite a higher APACHE II score or multiorgan failure Initially designed to include 11,444 patients, the trial was stopped early because of futility after 2,640 subjects were enrolled beneficial ... therapy has been shown to improve outcome in severe sepsis [8] Furthermore, two studies have shown that time to treatment with DrotAA has an influence on mortality [9,10], with the maximum beneficial...
... ultrasound beam), and curvature of the tissue surface besides the tissue state The echo duration can be affected by the characteristics of ultrasound transducer, such as its frequency response and beam ... the data and look for correlations The success of quantitative ultrasound for bone mineral density assessment shouldbe attributed in part to its direct measurement of intrinsic physical parameters, ... http://arthritis-research.com/content/10/6/125 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Cherin E, Saied A, Laugier P, Netter P, Berger G: Evaluation of acoustical parameter sensitivity to age-related and osteoarthritic...
... ultrasound beam), and curvature of the tissue surface besides the tissue state The echo duration can be affected by the characteristics of ultrasound transducer, such as its frequency response and beam ... the data and look for correlations The success of quantitative ultrasound for bone mineral density assessment shouldbe attributed in part to its direct measurement of intrinsic physical parameters, ... http://arthritis-research.com/content/10/6/125 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Cherin E, Saied A, Laugier P, Netter P, Berger G: Evaluation of acoustical parameter sensitivity to age-related and osteoarthritic...
... desensitization – a decreased number of both α- and β-adrenergic receptors This is either related to sepsis itself or to the use of vasopressors for long periods of time Corticosteroids may help with ... One shouldbe aware that, in the study by Annane and colleagues, patients were in septic shock with systolic blood pressure below 90 mmHg for more than hour This is not the usual patient because ... 283:1038-1045 Annane D, Bellissant E, Sebille V, Lesieur O, Mathieu B, Raphael JC, Gajdos P: Impaired pressor sensitivity to noradrenaline in septic shock patients with and without impaired adrenal...
... or limited, results from SGF assays with pure proteins are of little value in predicting allergenicity Continued work on new animal models of sensitization for food proteins will be of critical ... the allergenicity of novel food proteins [87] SGF assays shouldbe employed for estimating protein persistence in vitro and isolating peptide fragments with potential allergenic epitopes Therefore ... relationship between GI digestion and food allergy, results of in vitro digestion experiments have been considered to assess the allergenic potential of new food Page of (page number not for citation...
... children and shouldbe permitted to select the appropriate education for each of them It is critical that parents purchase education directly, when, and only for as long as, they believe their ... it Of course, it is likely that the pursuit of happiness will supply enough incentive for people to want their children to improve educationally By and large, education is an economic commodity ... would decide based on the perceived costs and benefits of each option Only the total separation of state and school can re-institute parental responsibility, protect parents' rights, and allow students,...
... why? It is clear that it would be wrong not to restore the hearing of a ‘deaf’ child It is also clear that it would be better for any particular child not to be ‘deaf’ For a child to be ‘deaf’ when ... it is conceded that it would be better for any child not to be ‘deaf’ From this it follows that it would be better to create a child that is not ‘deaf’, if one can choose between the creation ... Not because the life in question has not been impaired, not because the individuals are not suVering, not because they have not been harmed; it has, they are, and they have: rather because it...
... two or more words, which could be discourse markers (e.g., I mean, you know), editing terms, as well as some terms that are commonly used by human but without critical meaning, such as, “for example”, ... phrases we found with the lowest ISF scores are “you know“, “i mean” and “i think”, consistent with our intuition We also noticed that not all the phrases with low ISF scores can be taken as FPs ... parameter λ is used to balance the contribution from the significance scores for individual words and the language model scores Because of space limitation, we omitted the special sentence beginning...
... INEQUALITY WHILE BOOSTING ECONOMIC GROWTH: CAN ITBE DONE? Policy trade-offs and complementarities between growth and income equality objectives Despite a vast theoretical literature on the link between ... with Chile, the United States and Portugal being the most unequal countries and Belgium, Denmark and Switzerland being the most equal ones (Figure 5.2) Inequality is higher in all countries when ... overall quality and allocation of human capital and, ultimately, productivity At the same time, a more equitable distribution of educational opportunities has been shown to result in a more equitable...
... with the living conditions of the tribe The members see huge benefits such as better health care, subsidized mortgages, scholarships, and of course jobs With such benefits, there is bound to be ... some people who would like to be members of the tribe People come to the tribe with forged documents in an attempt to become Indian but "you just can't leap over and become an instant Indian" says ... toward compulsive gambling but until it came to their community they did not have an opportunity to act upon this trait It seems that when these people with inclination towards the addiction...
... khứ: You used to something, nghĩa bạn làm việc khoảng thời gian khứ, bạn không làm việc Ex: 1- We used to live there when I as a child (Chúng sống đứa trẻ.) 2- I used to walk to work when I was ... khứ: Used to thể tình trạng khứ không tồn thể động từ biểu trạng thái sau: have, believe, know like Ex: 1- I used to Like The Beatles but now I never listen to them (Tôi thích nhóm The Beatles ... tối không?) Dạng phủ định Used to: Subject + didn’t + used to Ex: 1- We didn’t use to be vegestarians (Chúng không người ăn chay.) 2- We didn’t use to get up early when we were children (Chúng...
... preferences Additionally, consensus approaches have little evidence of validity and reliability.16 Explicit measures with little clinical detail can be applied on large prescribing databases, but with measures ... criteria used with prescription data alone or with clinical data are commonly used to detect inappropriate prescribing Most criteria constitute a floor of quality below which no patient should go ... homes.34,35 Criteria to detect underprescribing usually state that a drug shouldbe prescribed to treat or prevent a specific condition, unless there is a contraindication These criteria have been applied...
... specific budget procedure, can be very attractive because of their clarity it is straightforward to verify whether the specified policy action has been taken Yet it important to underscore that ... the links between this specific objective indicator of rules and the broad outcome of interest, citizen satisfaction with elections, is at best very weak indeed, with a correlation between the ... contributing to the accountability of governments to their citizens Notwithstanding some clear advantages that specificity of an indicator may have for some purposes, one shouldbe careful not to interpret...
... recreational purposes Petri also admittedly supports medical legalization initiatives because he thinks it will make marijuana easier to find California's proposition 215 is an initiative that would legalize ... medical purposes "[Proposition 215] would permit patients with cancer, AIDS, glaucoma, arthritis, and other serious illnesses to grow, posses and use marijuana" (Lacayo) Despite criticism of Prop 215 ... that personal opinion might be more of a factor than itshouldbe in many reports about the drug's effects and toxicity Words such as "dangerous" and "harmful" are often used by figures on both sides...