Postoperative sore throat occurs in up to 90% of intubated patients and is the most common complaint of patients after endotracheal intubation. A recent study suggested that the use of lidocaine to inflate the endotracheal tube cuff would decrease the incidence of postoperative sore throat. The purpose of this prospective randomized study was to compare the incidence and severity of sore throat...

Accuracy of automatic speaker recognition (ASV) systems degrades severely in the presence of background noise. In this paper, we study the use of additional side information provided by a body-conducted sensor, throat microphone. Throat microphone signal is much less affected by background noise in comparison to acoustic microphone signal. This makes throat microphones potentially useful for fe...

A study was carried out of 274 children in Scotland aged 0 to 13 years recorded as having had acute nephritis over a four-year period (1976-79). The medical records for 223 of the patients were examined and 79 cases of poststreptococcal nephritis were identified, giving an estimated incidence of 2.1 episodes per 100,000 children per year. Using a number of assumptions, the authors sought the an...

BACKGROUND Management of acute sore throat poses a significant burden on UK general practices, with almost 10% of registered patients attending their GP with sore throat every year. Nearly half of all patients presenting with acute sore throat are treated with antibiotics, despite their limited effect. In a recent systematic review we demonstrated that a single dose of steroids reduced the seve...

The condition commonly known as septic throat or epidemic sore throat deserves special importance from the general practitioner as like no other common condition it is so frequentlymissed and even mis-diagnosed. This is particularly unfortunate because it is amenable to a simple and reliable form of therapy. Septic sore throat is an acute streptococcal infection with a fairly clear-cut clinical...

• Headache, nausea and vomiting, malaise, dysphagia, and abdominal pain might be present. Sore throat decision rule The sore throat decision rule can identify both patients who are so likely to have GABHS that a confirmatory test is not needed and patients who are so unlikely to have GABHS that further testing is unrewarding. Using the rule will successfully identify most patients who need trea...

BACKGROUND Sore throat is a very common reason for people to attend for medical care. It is a disease that remits spontaneously, that is, 'cure' is not dependent on treatment. Nonetheless primary care doctors commonly prescribe antibiotics for sore throat and other upper respiratory tract infections. OBJECTIVES To assess the benefits of antibiotics in the management of sore throat. SEARCH S...

The micropore-throat structure is a controlling factor on the capacity of storage and seepage for tight sandstone reservoirs. Therefore, quantitatively analyzing pore-throat crucial realizing oil accumulated in To study micropore-throat, battery experiments such as casting thin sections, scanning electron microscopy, high-pressure mercury injection, petrophysical characteristics reservoirs were...