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Combative patients are among the most difficult patients emergency physicians encounter. Often brought in against their will, they are agitated, confrontational, and nearly impossible to examine, and they may physically harm themselves or others. The emergency physician should seek to control the patient and the situation, diagnose and treat reversible causes of violence, and protect the patien...

Anesthesiologists in every subspecialty encounter, with varying regularity, patients presenting for surgery during the course of pregnancy. With the increasing sophistication of surgical and anesthetic techniques, increasingly complex surgeries are being undertaken. In this review, we address the fundamental physiologic principles central to the care of pregnant patients and fetuses in this dif...

When consumers consider their preference for one of a set of products without having decided whether or not they want to buy something, they develop a “whichto-buy” mind-set that increases their likelihood of making a purchase both in the situation at hand and in subsequent unrelated situations. The effect of this mindset is evident regardless of the commonality of the alternatives’ features an...

Etiquette-based communication may improve the inpatient experience but is not universally practiced. We sought to determine the extent to which internal medicine interns practice behaviors that characterize etiquette-based medicine. Trained observers evaluated the use of 5 key communication strategies by internal medicine interns during inpatient clinical encounters: introducing one's self, exp...

People with disabilities encounter serious limitations in interacting with their home environment since their requirements are not met properly. Personal assisting devices interacting with the services offered by smart home environments can help to improve the quality of their lives. A major prerequisite for this is to provide an appropriate customization architecture which allows to reason abo...

Currently, open fracture in lower extremity is a common trauma, which can easily form the skin defect. If the skin defect become an ulcer or ulcer like wound, the treatments will encounter a sticky situation that is hard to heal. Although skin flap grafting, tissue stretching and expansion can be available in this situation, however, they all have disadvantages, such as time consuming, costly, ...