Pre-emptive versus non pre-emptive kidney transplantation for end-stage kidney disease

Trends in the timing of pre-emptive kidney transplantation.

Pre-emptive kidney transplantation is considered the best available renal replacement therapy, but no guidelines exist to direct its timing during CKD progression. We used a national cohort of 19,471 first-time pre-emptive kidney transplant recipients between 1995-2009 to evaluate patterns and implications of transplant timing. Mean estimated GFR (eGFR) at the time of pre-emptive transplant inc...

Pre-emptive versus non-pre-emptive real time scheduling in intelligent mobile robotics

Autonomous and semi-autonomous mobile robots have to perform a multiplicity of concurrent activities to carry out useful tasks in unstructured human-populated environments. Even if it is commonly accepted that a successful accomplishment of assigned tasks requires some sort of real time capability to quickly react and adapt to environmental changes, it is not clear which operating system suppor...

Shareholders’ Pre-Emptive Rights

Pre-emptive analgesia.

Transmission of pain signals evoked by tissue damage leads to sensitization of the peripheral and central pain pathways. Pre-emptive analgesia is a treatment that is initiated before the surgical procedure in order to reduce this sensitization. Owing to this 'protective' effect on the nociceptive system, pre-emptive analgesia has the potential to be more effective than a similar analgesic treat...

Pre - Emptive Extradural Analgesia

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