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... causing temporary paleness to skin and also causing vasoconstriction which in turn may cause difficulty cannulating the identified vein. Intravenous induction versus inhalation induction in paediatrics ... siologica Scandinavica, 44, 101À6. Wood, C. (2002). Introducing a protocol for procedural pain. Paediatric Nursing, 14(8), 30À3. Intravenous induction versus inhalation induction in paediatrics ... thesia are intravenous and inhalational. Intrave- nous is more frequently used than inhalational induction in adults whereas in paediatric anaes- thesia both intravenous and inhalational induction

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 03:21

... post-registration AP While having to interpret and incorporate this knowledge into their own clinical role, APs must also maintain awareness of personal limitations and be continually mindful of their professional ... possibility include pre-loading with IV fluids 126 T Williams Trang 5and/or vasopressor drugs such as ephedrine, whichcan be prepared as an IV infusion, stand-by syringe containing 50 mg in 10 ml, ... peritoneal pain during surgery The block produced is adequate for surgery and any required sedation is commonly provided by an oxygen 50% and nitrous oxide 50% mix Continuous spinal using an indwelling

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 03:21

... Theywere later adapted and refined by Alexander Woodwho used them for injecting morphine directly intopainful joints (Wood,1855) The turn of the twentieth century saw something of a renaissance for ... simultaneouslybeing eliminated from the body, the TCI devicecalculates the changes between compartments andcompensates by either increasing or decreasing theinfusion rate in order to maintain the desired ... available for clinicaluse since 1996 The DiprifusorÕis only able to use pre-filled glasssyringes containing propofol to deliver TCIs Thesyringes are single-use only and contain a magneticstrip

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 03:21

... opportunities Reflecting on them within the portfolio enables the... the subject being studied Information about continuing professional development work including critical incident analysis, ... chest pain that aids diagnosis and prompts treatment in non- surgical myocardial infarction. It is however known that up to one third of patients do not present with chest pain in the setting of ... imply an increased cardiac risk. Electrocardiography (ECG) In the clinical assessment of chest pain, ECG is an essential adjunct to the clinical history and physical examination. Often, in the

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 03:21

... history of 1 intestinal 34 intracranial 40, 46, 71 (see also brain; intracranial pressure) intracranial surgery 71 (see also intracranial pressure) justified risk taking during... to Medicine 87(19) ... (see myocardial infarction) infection 131 inflammation 70 infusion pump technology 147, 152 insulin 139, 155 (see diabetes) intermittent positive pressure ventilation (IPPV) 42 intracranial haematomas ... and 65, 69 intraparenchymal catheters 66 surgery to eliminate 71 intubation airway management during 33 awake 11 7–1 8 blind nasal 116 brain injury and 72 cricoid pressure during 32 difficult

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 03:21

... considerations when investing in alternative assets and integratingthose assets into their business operations These include spending rates, inflation,liquidity, rebalancing, tail risk, funding status, ... Building on the material from CAIA Level I: An Introduction to Core Topics in Alternative Investments, it covers advanced topics in private equity investments and describes various routes into ... the initial section outlines, which arebased on the CAIA Core Knowledge Outline (CKO), and reviewing several sectiondrafts The following people were instrumental in bringing this project to its

Ngày tải lên: 12/04/2017, 11:15

... routine glutamine supplementation in other critically ill patients Intravenous glutamine is recommended for patients requiring parenteral nutrition support.[17] Arginine Arginine, like glutamine, ... of insulin antagonists (e.g noradrenaline, adrenaline, cortisol and glucagon) Pro-inflammatory cytokines are also thought to play a key role in the development of insulin resistance Insulin resistance ... greatest in those remaining on the ICU for more than five days In contrast to the findings in surgical ICU patients, intensive insulin therapy did not decrease bacteraemia or reduce mortality in the

Ngày tải lên: 23/01/2020, 06:08

... the main topics in Augustan prose Chapter II: The progressive topics expressed in some typical literary works of Augustan period I Praising human being II Appreciating women III Heightening the ... invention of steam engine Since then, the application of new inventions and discoveries into many aspects created a major change in producing method Machines released people from hard works in ... seemed capable of explaining everything in the universe and it was also the basic principle of Enlighteners In the field of philosophy, thinkers, especially Rousseau and Voltaire in France, praised

Ngày tải lên: 14/12/2013, 00:41

... Domains in Canonical Interaction 117 4.2.1 Conservation Laws, Interdomain Coupling and Boundary Energy Flows: Motivational Examples 118 4.2.2 Systems of Two Conservation Laws in Canonical Interaction ... z-subsystem can be considered independently In this sense it can be considered as a nonlinear counterpart of the well-known separationprinciple used in linear systems Interestingly, this result can ... Euler-Lagrange Systems Springer-Verlag Passivity-9 A van der Schaft (2000) L2-Gain and Passivity Techniques in Nonlinear trol Springer-Verlag, 2nd edition Con-10 V.I Utkin (1992) Sliding Modes in Control and

Ngày tải lên: 01/01/2014, 18:39

... NISP is curvilinear in most vertebrate faunas I have examined, it need not be in all, and Hesse (1982) is certainly correct in concluding that there are faunas in which it is linear In general, ... to point out that changing human hunting patterns might have played a role in causing the variations in relative abundance that Bate had found, a view that has found increasing support in recent ... operational definition of mini- mum numbers glosses over the crucial stage in defining those numbers: the definition of the clusters of faunal material from which minimum numbers are defined It is

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 20:20

... isomorphismtheorems have gained prominence, see [8], and [19] Interestingly, Dynkin’s isomorphism theorem has its roots in mathematical physics It grew out of the investigation by Dynkin in [4] of a probabilistic ... discrete Markov chain Zn, n  0, with starting point a.s equal to x, and anindependent sequence of positive variables Tn, n  1, the “jump times”, increasing to infinity, with increments TnC1 ... RC is a continuous, strictly increasing, piecewise entiable function, tending to 1 In particular it is an increasing bijection ofRC,and using the formula for the derivative of the inverse one

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 11:20

... other returns reinvested in stocks) or entirely into bonds (with interest reinvested in bonds) These strat- egies are not optimal in any sense since they ignore any market timing issues as well as ... imply that $1.00 in- vested in December 1925 in the S&P 500 would have grown with dividends reinvested to roughly $76.00 in real terms by the end of 1989 One dollar invested in long-term corporate ... sufficient information to calculate values for the annual earnings of all cohorts over this period Define r(t) as the annual nominal growth in faculty salaries Assuming that wage growth in each

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 04:20

... cylinder interface; (5) gold retaining screw-abutment screw interface Long term screw joint integrity at the fixture-abutment screw joint and abutment-gold... the Finite Element Method in ... Finite Element Modelling in Implant Dentistry 89 treated using computational modelling techniques In addition, modelling of the boneimplant interface should incorporate the actual osseointegration ... China 4 Finite Element Modelling in Implant Dentistry Jianping Geng^, Weiqi Yan^, Wei Xu^, Keson B C Tan^, Haw-Ming Huang^, Sheng-Yang Lee^, Huazi Xu^, Linbang Huang^, Jing Chen^ ^'^ Clinical

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 11:20

... diversity in lipopolysaccharide expression in nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae Identification of L - glycero - D - manno -heptose in the outer-core region in three clinical isolates Martin Ma ˚ nsson 1 , ... from H. influenzae strains [9–19] have resulted in a structural model consisting of a conserved phosphoethanolamine (PEtn)-substituted triheptosyl inner-core moiety (labelled HepI–HepIII) in which ... branching for the different glycoforms were obtained following collision-induced dissociation (CID) of the glycosidic bonds [27,28]. Through the ion mass distinction between reducing, nonreducing

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 08:20

... A␦-fibres terminate in lamina I and c-fibres terminate in lamina in lamina II. Table 2.1 summarizes sensory neurone phenotype. Core Topics in Pain provides a comprehensive, easy-to-read introduction ... factor NK1 Neurokinin 1 NK2 Neurokinin 2 – receptor for neurokinin A NK3 Neurokinin 3 – receptor for neurokinin B NKA Neurokinin A – peptide related to substance P NKB Neurokinin B – peptide related to ... descending pathway inhibiting the trans- mission of nociceptive information. ã There are multiple cortical regions involved in the central processing of pain. The anterior cingulate and insular...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 18:20

... the ventilator. Invasive haemodynamic monitoring is helpful in titrating fluid replacement and assessing cardiac performance. Siting of central venous catheters may be difficult. Core topics in perioperative ... recent coughs and colds, wheezing, exercise tolerance, dyspnoea with feeds for infants/babies  Feeding, vomiting, weight gain, including timing of last feed/drink  Previous surgery and anaesthesia ... history and examination should guide investigations in children and while there may be little place for the routine blood tests that are taken in Core topics in perioperative medicine 20 3  Electrocardiogram...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 16:20

... consequences of instituting mechanical ventilation in a patient for whom this option was inappropriate. For those not involved in intensive care, insight into why early involvement of an experienced intensive ... the chain of events involved in normal tidal breathing. This may occur in the respiratory centres in the medulla (where res- piratory drive originates), in the motor pathways in the spinal cord ... lungs’, heralded a marked decline in the practice of non-invasive respiratory support during the 1970s. Interest in non-invasive methods of support was rekindled in the 1980s by the discovery...

Ngày tải lên: 09/03/2014, 00:20

... reductions in CBF result in compensatory increases in OER, so as to maintain CMRO 2 .  is is manifest in jugular oximetry, with a fall in oxygen saturation providing a useful monitoring tool ... know- ledge, the margins of bene t that clinicians can produce in brain injury remain marginal. However, the good news is that, with better knowledge, these margins are increasing steadily. While ... would underpin clear advances in clinical monitoring and treatment. Indeed, the last decade has seen an explosion of tools to monitor the at-risk brain, bringing fundamental understanding of disease...

Ngày tải lên: 12/05/2014, 17:12