A breathless builder

Assessment of a breathless patient.

The aim of this article is to describe a systematic and comprehensive approach to the assessment of a breathless patient and to discuss the principles of oxygen delivery. After reading this article you should be able to: Describe how to assess the effectiveness of breathing, the work of breathing and the adequacy of ventilation. Discuss the importance of general appearance, medical and social h...

CASE FOR DIAGNOSIS A breathless female

A 67-yr-old female was admitted with a two week history of dry cough, cold sores and progressive breathlessness. Her exercise tolerance had gradually reduced over 3 yrs from 3 miles to half a mile. Three years previously she was diagnosed as having chronic myeloid leukaemia for which she received a total of 1.3 g busulphan, producing remission for the last 2 yrs. She was an exsmoker with a 40 p...

A Multiple-Domain Ontology Builder

The interpretation of a multiple-domain text corpus as a single ontology leads to misconceptions. This is because some concepts may be syntactically equal; though, they are semantically lopsided in different domains. Also, the occurrences of a domain concept in a large multipledomain corpus may not gauge correctly the concept significance. This paper tackles the mentioned problems and proposes ...

CUBER: A Personalised Curriculum Builder

The fast development of technologies and vocational demands require specialised and complex skills that need to be renewed frequently. Therefore, the role of continuing education and lifelong learning is becoming still more important. The goal of the CUBER project was to develop a system that supports learners in searching higher education courses that match their specialised needs. A corner st...

A breathless accountant who blew up balloons.