Blood coagulation tests were performed on admission to the hospital and on consecutive days after severe and moderate head injury in 34 patients. Platelet counts and fibrinogen were normal at admission and raised thereafter. The partial thromboplastin time was shortened at admission and lengthened in the following days. Fibrinolytic activity was enhanced at admission. The ethanol gelation test ...

The activities of the prominent Russian organizer science, scientist, and teacher higher education, Lyudmila Alekseevna Verbitskaya (Bubnova), are extremely relevant. Studying her experience allows us to form an effective work algorithm for our contemporary seeking make a personal contribution development national science education. To conduct study, authors have used such methods as analysis, ...

OBJECTIVE to characterize the background, aetiology, clinical course and outcome of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) in elderly compared with younger patients. DESIGN a 1 year prospective study. SETTING a university hospital in southern Israel. PARTICIPANTS ninety-one patients over 65 years who were hospitalized from their homes with CAP. These patients were compared with a reference gr...

To students of causality, the writings of William Cochran provide an excellent and intriguing vantage point for studying how statistics, lacking the necessary mathematical tools, managed nevertheless to cope with increasing demands for policy evaluation from observational studies. Cochran met this challenge in the years 1955-1980, when statistics was preparing for a profound, albeit tortuous tr...

Introduction Bullous pemphigoid (BP) can be treated using systemic and topical glucocorticoids and/or other immunomodulatory agents. However, the long-term use of causes severe adverse side effects. This study was aimed at investigating whether early initiation corticosteroid-sparing therapy (CST) in BP patients results better outcomes than late or no CST. Method We retrospectively identified a...

This paper presents two classes of admission control schemes for embedded system applications that have real-time constraints but with composite characteristics in request arrivals and resource requirements. First, we present admission control tests using utilization demands to handle a mix of periodic and aperiodic tasks with deterministic execution times. The utilization demand is defined as ...

the relation of shock index (si) and revised trauma score (rts) with trauma patients mortality after first 24 hours of admission at khatam-al anbia hospital in iranshahr heydarikhayat n[1], rezaee hematabadi ma[2], rasouli d[3], kalbali a[4] received: 11 ay , 2012 accepted: 5aug, 2012abstract background & aims: trauma is one of the most important health problems and a leading cause of death in ...

OBJECTIVE To identify the strengths and weaknesses of the current selection process for admissions to public medical colleges being followed in the province of Punjab and to suggest changes. METHODS The prospective study comprised candidates sitting the Medical and Dental Colleges Entrance Tests administered by the University of Health Sciences, Lahore, from 2008 to 2011. The marks of pre- an...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE We used Riks-Stroke, the Swedish Stroke Register, to explore how thrombolysis has been disseminated in Swedish hospitals since it was approved in 2003. METHODS All 78 hospitals in Sweden admitting patients with acute stroke participate in Riks-Stroke. Between 2003 and 2008, 72 033 adult patients were hospitalized for acute ischemic stroke. We analyzed thrombolysis use b...