... 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 ... disadvantages in using multiple threads to accomplish a task ina program. The overhead of adding threads, scheduling them to run, communicating between each thread and context switching between ... 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...
... 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 cadavers. All ... (SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL, USA) and Statistical Analy-sis System (SAS) version 0.2 software for Windows (SASInstitute, Inc., Cary, North Carolina). Exact confidenceintervals were obtained by using ... 1.Presenting diagnosisIntraosseous access was primarily used in connectionwith 53 patients in cardiac arrest (75.7%), includingtraumatic arrest, drowning and SIDS. Other diagnoseswere seven patients...
... 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 ... Bing ML, Abel RL, Sabharwal K, McCauley C, Zaldivar K: Imple-menting a clinical pathway for the treatment of Medicarepatients with cardiac chest pain. Best Pract Benchmarking Health-care 1997, ... 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 ... 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 ... 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...
... 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:...
... discriminatebetween 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 in Table 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, ... obtain CXRs after insertion of endotra-cheal tubes, intravenous lines and chest drains, but not afterinsertion of nasogastric tubes. In addition, CXRs wereobtained in the case of worsening...
... sevendays before the examination was ascertained by an instru-ment for database-assisted online collection of medicationdata (IDOM) [19]. The following substance classes wereconsidered as antihypertensive ... FVC and FEV1were taken and percent pre-dicted values were calculated according Quanjer et al.[18].Blood pressure, medication and other determinatsBlood pressure was measured using a validated ... 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: ... 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 ... thatroutine CXRs are 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...
... 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, ... impor-tant to gain insight into the possible processes that lead toMET calls and to understand their circadian variation in orderto plan appropriate staff allocation. We recently reported that...
... malignant glioma. Clin Cancer Res. 2004 Apr 15;10(8):2618-25 47. Okuno T, Tamura T, Yamamori M, Chayahara N, Yamada T, Miki I, Okamura N, Kadowaki Y, Shirasaka D, Aoyama N, Nakamura T, Okumura ... Ehninger G, Stoehlmacher J. Phar-macogenetic analyses of a phase III trial in metastatic gastroesoph-ageal adenocarcinoma with fluorouracil and leucovorin plus either oxaliplatin or cisplatin: ... Marsh S, Gao F, Viswanathan A, Cummings K, McLeod HL, Govindan R. A phase II study of iri-notecan and carboplatin in advanced non-small cell lung cancer with pharmacogenomic analysis: final...
... 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 ... that MZ with discordant handedness showed opposite brain activity patterns in language and a mental rota-tion task. Sommer et al. 14 have suggested that late splitting of the egg may play ... 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...
... Japan). Statistical analysis Data were expressed as means ± standard devi-ation (SD), and comparisons were perf o r m e d w i t h Wilcoxon rank sum test. All statistical analyses were carried ... Group A and Gr ou p B: the nu c l e a r membrane had collapsed and chromatin was loca-lized along the nuclear margin. Endochylema was vacuolated, and mitochondria swelled to a circular shape ... ear veins and ketamine was infused (50 mg/h) for anesthesia. Diazepam was administered as needed. The HIFU ablation procedure complies with the guidance of the National Standard of China and...