Persistent clinical demand and recent industrial developments show that High Frequency Ventilation is well established, although the method was introduced prematurely into clinical use, with incomplete knowledge, primitive instrumental development and inadequate monitoring standards. The confusion [1-6] in the literature regarding the clinical use of high frequency ventilation and its merits in...

This paper discusses how simulation environments can be adapted to become HLA (High Level Architecture) compliant. As a case study, the paper shows how an HLA compliant version of the SIMOO simulation environment is being developed. SIMOO is an object-oriented framework for discrete simulation, which enables the user to build simulation models that may contain any combination of various modelin...

Background: Hand hygiene plays a key role in the prevention of healthcare-associated infection in critical patients. Objective: The current study aimed to evaluate compliance with hand hygiene practices. Methods: An observational and descriptive study was carried out in a 35-bed medical-surgical critical care unit in La Habana (Cuba...

background and objectives: standard clinical documentation is an integral part of quality patient care. this study aimed to explore compliance of two iranian teaching hospitals with the clinical documentation standards.   methods: a total of 400 records were surveyed. data were collected using a checklist of standard measures. the checklist comprised 15 items selected from relevant guidelines...

Calf venous compliance improves with aerobic training and declines with age. Individuals with hypertension often have decreased arterial and venous compliance. Acute high consumption of NaCl may increase net transcapillary fluid filtration in the limbs, but it is unknown if this acutely high NaCl intake will alter non-invasive assessment of calf venous compliance. In humans, assessment of limb ...

abstract background iron overload is a major problem in patients with major thalassemia. an effective and safe iron chelator protocol with high compliance rate plays an important role in treatment of these patients. this study was done to assess the efficacy and safety of the sequential deferoxamine and deferasirox protocol in major thalassemia patients in khuzestan province, iran. material and...

results overall hav seropositivity in nursing students (mean age 24, range 17 - 45 years) was 3%. compliance to preventive measures was not uniform (6% - 76%) and extremely low in some specific measures targeted to decrease the oral-fecal transmission. conclusions the high proportion of susceptible nursing students can contribute to an increase in the risk of nosocomial transmission, especially...

Compliance is a key factor in the maintenance treatment of bipolar disorder. This noninterventional study was conducted to explore factors associated with higher levels of compliance in bipolar patients, all treated in routine clinical settings. Bipolar outpatients (Clinical Global Impression of Severity score ≤3) who had been stabilized with olanzapine mono- or combination therapy for ≥4 weeks...

BACKGROUND Participants' compliance, attitudes and beliefs have the potential to influence the efficacy of an intervention greatly. OBJECTIVE To characterise team and player compliance with a comprehensive injury prevention warm-up programme for football (The 11+), and to assess attitudes towards injury prevention among coaches and their association with compliance and injury risk. STUDY DE...

OBJECTIVES To determine whether high rates of compliance with perioperative processes of care used for public reporting and pay-for-performance are associated with lower rates of risk-adjusted mortality and high-risk surgical complications. DESIGN Retrospective analysis of Medicare inpatient claims data (from January 1, 2005, through December 31, 2006). Hierarchical logistic regression models...