OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effect of paramedic rapid sequence intubation (RSI) on outcome in patients with severe traumatic brain injury. METHODS Adult major trauma victims were prospectively enrolled over two years using the following inclusion criteria: Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) 3-8, suspected head injury by mechanism or physical examination, transport time > 10," and inability to intubate wi...

For semantic segmentation of remote sensing images (RSI), trade-off between representation power and location accuracy is quite important. How to get the effectively an open question,where current approaches utilizing very deep models result in complex with large memory consumption. In contrast previous work that utilizes dilated convolutions or models, we propose a novel two-stream neural netw...

Abstract The influence mechanism of basicity on the reduction swelling index (RSI) iron ore briquettes was investigated using SEM analysis and Factsage 7.3 thermodynamic calculations based addition pure CaO to Bayan Obo concentrate. results revealed that solid solution Ca 2+ in FeO lattice increased with briquettes, whereas diffusion channels Fe ions during process from resulted formation a gre...

BACKGROUND Cricoid pressure is considered to be the gold standard means of preventing aspiration of gastric content during Rapid Sequence Intubation (RSI). Its effectiveness has only been demonstrated in cadaveric studies and case reports. No randomised controlled trials comparing the incidence of gastric aspiration following emergent RSI, with or without cricoid pressure, have been performed. ...

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The feeding kinematics of dwarf and pygmy sperm whales (Kogia sima and K. breviceps) and bottlenose dolphins Tursiops truncatus were characterized and compared incorporating the Ram-Suction Index (RSI). Mean RSI data support a suction feeding strategy for Kogia (-0.67+/-0.29; mean +/- s.d.) and a ram feeding strategy for Tursiops (0.94+/-0.11; mean +/- s.d.). Tursiops displayed two ram-based fe...

BACKGROUND The 'classical' technique of rapid sequence induction (RSI) of anaesthesia was described in 1970. With the introduction of new drugs and equipment in recent years, a wide variation in this technique has been used. The role of cricoid pressure is controversial because of the lack of scientific evidence. Moreover, gentle mask ventilation has been recommended in situations such as obesi...

IMPORTANCE Several trials on the predictors of response to proton pump inhibitor (PPI) treatment of laryngopharyngeal reflux (LPR) have shown conflicting results. Furthermore, the influence of age in disease severity and response to PPI therapy is unclear. OBJECTIVE To assess the difference in disease severity and response to PPI therapy according to age in patients with LPR. DESIGN, SETTIN...

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