BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to evaluate the use of a glucose meter with surgical patients under general anesthesia in the operating room. METHODS Glucose measurements were performed intraoperatively on 368 paired capillary and arterial whole blood samples using a Nova StatStrip (Nova Biomedical, USA) glucose meter and compared with 368 reference arterial whole blood glucose measureme...

Recent studies have reported a notable rise in social media use (i.e., TikTok) by dermatologists to educate users about dermatological conditions. Similarly, patients utilizing obtain information. Due the nature of Tik-Tok, specifically, any user is permitted create and post content with very few regulations that might ensure accuracy. Thus, arises likelihood inaccurate medical information prop...

In contemporary knowledge work organizations, work is often accomplished through communication. Consequently, communication disruptions often translate into work disruptions. In this paper, we identify two types of communication disruptions with implications for the relative organization of work: delays and interruptions. Communication delays contribute to work disorganization when a worker is ...

Israel Schwierz, Steinerne Zeugnisse jüdischen Lebens in Bayern. Eine Dokumentation, München (Bayerische Landeszentrale für politische Bildungsarbeit) 1992. 368 S.

background echocardiography is widely used to diagnose or exclude cardiac disease. the reports on reference values based on an asian population are limited. objectives we conducted a study to determine normal values for two-dimensional, m-mode, and doppler echocardiographic measurements and evaluate the relationship between these parameters and age and gender in a large, healthy iranian populat...

This paper focuses on methods that can be used in football analysis by showing our implementation and results of automatic football video registration and player detection. Some of the first methods we implemented like SIFT Feature detection for video registration and background detection for player detection were not successful. However, we implemented more integrated methods like line mapping...

OBJECT Although endoscopic third ventriculostomy (ETV) has been accepted as a procedure of choice for the treatment of obstructive hydrocephalus, the outcome of this treatment remains controversial with regard to age, cause, and long-term follow-up results. The goal of this study was to assess the risk of failure associated with these factors in a retrospective cohort study. METHODS Between 1...

Mitochondrial connexin 43 (Cx43) is important in cardioprotection by ischemic preconditioning; however, whether mitochondrial Cx43 is involved in mitochondrial dysfunction in the pathogenesis of dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) remains to be elucidated. The present study was performed to investigate the changes in expression and the phosphorylation state of mitochondrial Cx43 in a rat model of DCM,...