s contain over 100 comorbid diseases and severity measures that collectively summarize all the major associated diseases and functional status impairments. Moreover, the abstracts include AMI severity measures following the CCP’s expert advisory panel, which influence the appropriateness of major AMI treatment decisions and health outcomes (Noguchi et al., 2008). Table 1 presents the frequency ...

Recent improvements in digital C-arm radiographic units permit the safe and effective performance of cerebral angiography in the operating room. Intraoperative cerebral angiography, in turn, facilitates more effective aneurysm surgery and arteriovenous malformation therapy (1 , 2]. A variety of radiolucent carbon fiber head holders are now available for use in neurosurgical procedures that invo...

SUBJECT PREPARATION The subject fills out a standard MRI questionnaire to be sure that they are not precluded from the MRI study due to existing medical conditions. Safety precautions (as indicated on the questionnaire, e.g. use of earplugs) are implemented. After giving informed consent, the subject lays supine on the MRI table, and the RF coil is placed around the subject’s head. Head motion ...

OBJECTIVES To determine the threshold values of Pediatric Index of Mortality 2 (PIM 2) score, Pediatric Trauma Score (PTS), and Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) score for mortality in children after severe head injury and to evaluate changes in outcomes of children after severe head injury on discharge and after 6 months. MATERIAL AND METHODS All children with severe head injury admitted to the Pedia...

recent years due to the request of patients and the increase in the cost of inpatient health services [1]. Patients who undergo ambulatory surgery usually receive general anesthesia or local anesthesia with sedation. Studies have reported that these types of anesthesia can impair cognitive and psychomotor performance [2-4]. The impairment of cognitive and psychomotor performance may threaten th...

Pumps are fluid machines whose uses very broad and important, ranging from industry to household needs. Selection of pump performance characteristics is important must be adjusted the needs which include: discharge, head, power, rotation. The obtained through testing. In connection with importance information about characteristics, this research activity efforts will made test centrifugal pumps...

This study represents an unusual case of mucormycosis localized in nasal cavity of a German shepherd dog. The patient was a 1-year-old male guard dog with unilateral nasal epistaxis, mucopurulent nasal discharge, sneezing and nose pawing. The dog had a history of head trauma about 2 months before admission, which was associated with mild self-limited epistaxis. Initial nasal rhinoscopy showed s...

introduction : it is clear that if the discharge process takes less time and the patient leaves the hospital bed earlier, the length of hospitalization, and consequently, the waiting time for admission decreases. therefore, the method of use of treatment facilities is somewhat improved. the hospital discharge process, from when the discharge authorization is issued until the patient leaves the ...