BACKGROUND Animal experiments showed that recruitment maneuver (RM) and protective ventilation strategy of the lung could improve oxygenation and reduce extravascular lung water. This study was to investigate the effects of RM on respiratory mechanics and extravascular lung water index (EVLWI) in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). METHODS Thirty patients with ARDS were ...

Steel, concrete, peanut butter, and genetic testing all have something in common: all have reference material established in the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), an agency within the U.S. Department of Commerce (Pear, 2015). On May 21, 2015, NIST announced that they made ‘‘the world’s first reference material to help ensure laboratories accurately ‘map’ DNA for genetic tes...

This paper describes how the RM-ODP approach for system specification is applied to the description of the IT architectures of a large Swiss bank. The IT organization of UBS AG is defining several architectures based upon a business model which describes the main objectives of the bank considering the IT requirements. The semantics and the components of each architecture are explained using the...

Fetal rhabdomyomas (RM) are extremely rare benign mesenchymal tumours that occur primarily in the head and neck.This tumour exhibits immature skeletal muscle differentiation. The patients’ median age is four years and surgical resectionis the recommended treatment.Fetal RM of limbs are rare and not well described in the literature and if, predominantly in form of case reports. We reportthe seco...