INTRODUCTION Hospitals have seen a rise in Medical Emergency Team (MET) reviews. We hypothesised that the commonest MET calls result in similar treatments. Our aim was to design a pre-emptive management algorithm that allowed direct institution of treatment to patients without having to wait for attendance of the MET team and to model its potential impact on MET call incidence and patient outco...

BACKGROUND Informed decision-making requires the presentation of all possible courses of action; however, it is unclear what proportion of Stage 5 chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients are routinely informed of all their treatment options. The aim of this study was to determine the effect of patient and unit characteristics on the type and timing of information provided. METHODS A prospective...

Although, on average, only 2.1% of airline flights are cancelled each year, some of these flight cancellations occur in batches due to events that impact airline network operations such as snow storms, equipment outages, and labor issues. Batch flight cancellations impact a large number of passengers at the same time in the same location and have a negative effect on airline revenue (due to ref...

What is a responsible geography? From where do its responsibilities spring? And to what does it respond? These have always been critical questions for geographers to ask, but they are now all the more urgent given the ways 'responsibility' is being redefined by global elites to promote everything from pre-emptive social auditing to pre-emptive war. "[W]e now have to be responsible for things we...

Following primary infection, herpesviruses establish latency in infected individuals the host cells and may reactivate upon external stimuli during periods of immunosuppression. The objective this paper was to present current strategies on preventive therapeutic management infections with recipients hematopoietic cell transplantation. Strategies antiviral include prophylaxis, pre-emptive treatm...

An experimental study was performed to investigate the effects of the body angle of attack on the tail surface pressure distribution for a half body-tail combination in subsonic flow. The results show, in small deflection angle regions, that the tail deflection has the same effect on the surface pressure as the body angle of attack. However at moderate to high deflections, the flowfiled caused ...

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) is a common attack in recent years that can deplete the bandwidth of victim nodes by flooding packets. Based on the type and quantity of traffic used for the attack and the exploited vulnerability of the target, DDoS attacks are grouped into three categories as Volumetric attacks, Protocol attacks and Application attacks. The volumetric attack, which the pro...