Background: Comfort with ambiguity, mostly associated with the acceptance of multiple meanings, is a core characteristic of successful clinicians. Yet past studies indicate that medical students and junior physicians feel uncomfortable with ambiguity. Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) is a pedagogic approach involving discussions of art works and deciphering the different possible meanings entai...

To determine whether high current strength pacing at the site of origin of ventricular tachycardia (VT) could prevent induction of VT, we studied 11 VTs in 10 patients with chronic coronary artery disease. The left ventricular site of origin of all VT was determined by endocardial catheter mapping. Reproducible VT induction from the right ventricular apex or outflow tract was demonstrated with ...

SUMMARY Runoff from open lot livestock systems (beef and dairy) defined as Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFO) must be controlled by systems designed and managed to prevent the release of manure-contaminated runoff for storms equal to or less than a 25-year, 24-hour design storm. This performance standard has been attained for open lot systems with some combination of clean water dive...

dIalysIs 14. ‘PD’ in the renal context, stands for ‘peritoneal dialysis’, not Parkinson’s disease. s Maidment, MA, MB BChir, ST2 GP trainee, Oxford Deanery GP VTS, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington, Oxford. address for correspondence sarah Maidment, Oxford Deanery GP VTS, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headley Way, Headington, Oxford, OX3 9DU, UK. e-mail: [email protected] submitted: 14 Janu...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to assess the value of body surface mapping and the standard 12-lead ECG in localizing the site of origin of postinfarction ventricular tachycardia (VT) during endocardial pace mapping of the left ventricle. METHODS AND RESULTS Simultaneous recordings of 62-lead body surface QRS integral maps and scalar 12-lead ECG tracings were obtained in 16 patients...

Introduction Failure to differentiate supraventricular from ventricular arrhythmias is the most frequent cause of inappropriate implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) therapies. We hypothesized that the postpacing interval (PPI) after overdrive right ventricular pacing may differentiate ventricular (VT) from supraventricular tachycardia (SVT) such as sinus tachycardia, atrial flutter and ...

By exploiting a model of environmental distortion, model adaptation based on vector Taylor series (VTS) approaches have been shown to significantly improve the robustness of speech recognizers to environmental noise. However, the computational cost of VTS model adaptation (MVTS) methods hinders them from being more widely used. In this paper, we propose to reduce the computational cost of MVTS ...

This is the judging session for the Panel 4A: Apprentice – VTS edition. The main objective of this active “panel” is to increase technical interaction among attendees. Team leaders listed below will recruit participants to their team. Each team will try to clearly articulate the problems and come up with ways to solve this problem in the form of new business proposal. The teams will present the...

Wearable sensor systems require an interactive and communicative interface for the user to interpret data in a meaningful way. The development of adaptive personalization features in a visualization tool for such systems can convey a more meaningful picture to the user of the system. In this paper, a visualization tool called Visualization in Team Scenarios (VTS), which can be used by a coach t...