BACKGROUND Concern about a child's flat foot posture is a common reason for frequent clinical consultations for an array of health care and medical professionals. The recently developed paediatric flatfoot clinical-care pathway (FFP) has provided an evidence based approach to diagnosis and management. The intra and inter-rater/measurer reliability of the FFP has been investigated in this study....

With the establishment of the inadequate efficiency of atropines and oximes in reducing morbidity and mortality of patients poisoned by organophosphates, more attention is given to using other methods such as Fresh Frozen Plasma (FFP) as a bioscavenger to mop up organophosphate toxins. This randomized clinical trial was conducted on 56 organophosphate poisoned patients who were randomly assigne...

Introduction While plasma donation is still necessary as a unique source of human proteins and to treat coagulation disorders, FFP administration seems to have high rate of inappropriate indication. After all, FFP transfusion is not risk free, and is associated with lung injury, infectious disease and circulatory overload in recipients. On the other hand, patients required long ICU hospitalizat...

Essentials Russell's viper envenoming is a major health issue in South Asia and causes coagulopathy. We studied the effect of fresh frozen plasma and two antivenom doses on correcting coagulopathy. Fresh frozen plasma did not hasten recovery of coagulopathy. Low-dose antivenom did not worsen coagulopathy. SUMMARY Background Russell's viper (Daboia russelii) envenoming is a major health issue ...

BACKGROUND Previous studies failed to demonstrate any benefit from prophylaxis with fresh frozen plasma (FFP) after cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB). The results, however, were limited by either retrospective study design or use of FFP in subtherapeutic doses (2-3 units). The authors evaluated whether a therapeutic dose (15 ml/kg) of FFP reduces blood loss and transfusion requirements in elective c...

of the attacks. Safety was assessed in terms of adverse events. All participants gave written informed consent. Results: There were 21 acute attacks, 14 for icatibant and 7 for FFP. The median time to onset of symptoms relief was 27 and 45 minutes for icatibant and FFP respectively (P 1⁄4 0.106). The median time to complete resolution of all simptoms was 240 and 2880 minutes respectively for ic...

Mortality due to fibrinous pneumonia (shipping fever) can be a significant problem in beef feedlots. Determining whether the disease clusters within specific management groups is an important step towards understanding the epidemiology of the disease and planning preventive strategies. There is anecdotal evidence for the existence of, in the vernacular of feedlot personnel, "wreck pens" or "wre...

Software cost estimation is one of the most challenging tasks in software engineering. For the estimation, Function points are useful in the business application software domain and problematic in the real-time software domain. Full Function Points (FFP) are useful for functionality-based estimation, specifically for real-time and embedded software. Functional size measurement method that has u...

of the attacks. Safety was assessed in terms of adverse events. All participants gave written informed consent. Results: There were 21 acute attacks, 14 for icatibant and 7 for FFP. The median time to onset of symptoms relief was 27 and 45 minutes for icatibant and FFP respectively (P 1⁄4 0.106). The median time to complete resolution of all simptoms was 240 and 2880 minutes respectively for ic...