Many risk factors for the development of pressure ulcers (PUs) in the general hospital population have been identified, but consensus is lacking on specific PU risk factors for critical care patients. A prospective, descriptive study was conducted to determine the incidence of and risk factors for PU development among high-risk patients (Braden risk scale score <12) admitted to an intensive car...

This study assessed the ability of the Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) and Acute Physiology, Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE) II scoring systems, as well as the Simplified Acute Physiology Score (SAPS) II method to predict group mortality in intensive care unit (ICU) patients who were poisoned with organophosphate. The medical records of 149 organophosphate poisoned patients admitt...

Post-secondary institutions are looking for ways to provide virtual computing labs to students. Using the open source systems Apache VCL and OpenStack, as well as a preexisting OpenStack provisioning module for Apache VCL, we implemented a pilot project to provide virtual computing labs. As the pilot continued we altered and improved our implementation and discovered new requirements. These imp...

Background: Hospital bed capacity is one of problems in intensive care unit during at the time of crisis, emergencies and disasters. At this regard, it seems reverse triage can resolve this issue by using predictive score systems. This study was purposed to develop a reverse triage system in intensive care unit using APACHE II scoring system for crisis, emergencies and disasters situations. Me...

We present hoc: a fast, scalable object repository providing programmers with a general storage module. hoc may be used to implement DSMs as well as distributed cache subsystems. hoc is composed of a set of hot-pluggable cooperating processes that may sustain a close to optimal network traffic rate. We designed an hoc-based Web cache that extends the Apache Web server and remarkably improves Ap...

In this paper, we present NetAirt – a redirection system that separates redirection mechanisms from redirection policies. NetAirt is implemented in the form of a module for the Apache HTTP server. We propose a few changes to the original Apache source code that enable Apache to service UDP datagrams, and show how we exploit these changes in the NetAirt implementation. Performance measurements p...

Big data sizes are constantly increasing. Big data analytics is where advanced analytic techniques are applied on big data sets. Analytics based on large data samples reveals and leverages business change. The popularity of big data analytics platforms, which are often available as open-source, has not remained unnoticed by big companies. Google uses MapReduce for PageRank and inverted indexes....

OBJECTIVES The study’s objective was to implement a methodological approach, "Acute Physiological and Chronic Health Evaluation II (APACHE-II),” classify critically ill patients based on severity. METHODOLOGY A retrospective study design conducted at Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital Lahore, Pakistan, from May 2019 2020. pilot of 6 months by reviewing the medical record 30 adult following...