Ranitidine 150 mg was given orally as routine antacid treatment. Vascular preloading was with 1.0 litres of Hartmann's solution, and throughout this process the patient received 4007 oxygen in air via a face mask. The epidural space was cannulated at L2 -3 and correct placement of the catheter was confirmed with 3 ml of 0.5% bupivacaine plain. A further 10 ml was injected with the patient sitti...

8 Walter F. Haupt, Ghesal Chopan, Jan Sobesky, Wei-Chi Liu, Christian Dohmen 9 10 Department of Neurology, University of Cologne, Germany 11 Department of Neurology, Charité, University of Berlin, Germany 12 Max-Planck-Institute for Metabolism Research, Cologne, Germany 13 14 W.F. Haupt: study design, data acquisition, preparation of manuscript 15 G. Chopan, J. Sobesky, W. Liu: data acquisition...

A 23-year-old man presented to the emergency department with thigh and flank pain. His medical history was unremarkable. Serum test results included the following: aspartate aminotransferase, 4007 U/L (reference interval, 11–47 U/L); alanine aminotransferase, 715 U/L (reference interval, 7–53 U/L); alkaline phosphatase, 67 U/L (reference interval, 38–126 U/L); lactate dehydrogenase, 6150 U/L (r...

Connecting the Last Billion

Why are distributed systems more interesting now than they may have been one or two dozen years ago? A number of advances in computing technology had a profound effect on distributed systems. Network connectivity increased by a factor of a thousand since the 1980s. Connectivity within a local area network (LAN) moved from shared to switched networking, allowing the network to scale without incr...

this study aims to give data concrning phantom material made in iran i'rom a natural rubber which is used for obtaining calibration data for patient dose measurements in nuclear medicine applications of radionuclides for therapy and diagnosis.is showed to be a tissue equivalent material cheap (25000 rials the material itself and 35000 rials the process of casting and moulding etc.), easily avai...

schemic stroke is the most feared complication of atrial brillation, and many studies have investigated strategies to educe cerebral embolism. Anticoagulation with warfarin is emarkably effective in reducing the risk of ischemic stroke mong patients with chronic atrial fibrillation (1) and has ecome standard therapy. More recently, four randomized rials (2–5) have shown that a strategy of aggre...

abstract one of the major aspects of water resources management in the arid and semi-arid regions is the use of unconventional water sources such as effluents from wastewater treatment plants. as a result, assessment of water supply potential as well as fertilizer values of these unconventional water sources is an important issue in any comprehensive resource management program. in this study, ...