BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Activating emergency medical services (EMS) is the most important factor in reducing delay times to hospital arrival for stroke patients. Determining who calls 911 for stroke would allow more efficient targeting of public health initiatives. METHODS The T.L.L. Temple Foundation Stroke Project is an acute stroke surveillance and intervention project in nonurban East Texa...

INTRODUCTION This study examines barriers and disparities in the intentions of American citizens, when dealing with stroke symptoms, to call 911. This study hypothesizes that low socioeconomic populations are less likely to call 911 in response to stroke recognition. METHODS The study is a cross-sectional design analyzing data from the Centers for Disease Control's 2009 Behavioral Risk Factor...

2014 The nature of the flow alignment of nematic liquid crystals is discussed within the hydrodynamic theory of Leslie, Ericksen and Parodi. It is shown that there is a limited range of angles for which flow alignment can occur. With this as a starting point the flow alignment of disc like nematics is discussed. It is proved that only one out of the two models of flow alignment recently discuss...

Purpose: To assess the quality of vision in pseudophakic patients with a prolate aspherical intraocular lens (IOL) compared to patients with a spherical IOL. Patients and methods: Twenty patients undergoing cataract surgery were divided into two groups according to the type of IOL: ten prolate aspherical IOLs (TECNIS Z9000, AMO, USA) and ten spherical IOLs (911 CeeOn Edge, AMO, USA). The integr...

Target Audience 911 Objectives 91

Trained interviewers visited 631 inner city households to determine community prevalence and predictors of antibiotic use. Infectious disease symptoms were reported in 911 (33.2%) of 2,743 household members in the previous 30 days: medical attention was sought by 441 (48.4%) of 911 persons, and 354 (8.9%) of 911 took antibiotics for symptoms. Reported symptoms were respiratory (68.9%(, gastroin...