2144. Vital Signs Are Vital in Identifying High-Risk Postoperative Patients

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Vital signs: Vital for surviving in-hospital cardiac arrest?

To What Extent Vital Signs Are Important to Medical Toxicologists When Conflicts Arise in Defining Toxidroms

How useful are vital signs in identifying patient with ruptured ectopic pregnancy? A retrospective correlation study

Objectives: To determine whether initial vital signs correlate with the amount of haemoperitoneum in patient with ruptured ectopic pregnancy presenting to accident and emergency department. Method: A retrospective study in a regional public hospital in Hong Kong. We retrospectively collected data of all patients with the diagnosis of rupture ectopic pregnancy (ICD-9-CM 633) from the period of J...

Vital Signs: Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae

BACKGROUND Enterobacteriaceae are a family of bacteria that commonly cause infections in health-care settings as well as in the community. Among Enterobacteriaceae, resistance to broad-spectrum carbapenem antimicrobials has been uncommon. Over the past decade, however, carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) have been recognized in health-care settings as a cause of difficult-to-treat inf...