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9/10/2008 · Medical

By: Dr. Richard Collins

Blunt impact to the thorax often results in traumatic rupture of the aorta, leading to immediate exsanguination. Current interest in the mechanisms of this failure is great (Roberts and Beckman, 1970), particularly with regard to vehicular fatilities in which passengers are subjected to high levels of deceleration

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9/10/2008 · Medical

By: Dr. Richard Collins

The lung constitutes a highly complex and selfregulating system for oxygenating man’s blood and removing its waste materials. It is at the alveolar level that the respiratory and circulatory functions interact and the important exchange processes occur

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9/10/2008 · Medical

By: Dr. Richard Collins

The uptake of particulate matter by inhalation leads to complex transport processes influenced by unsteady convection through a non-dichotomously branching network of conducting conduits (airways)

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8/22/2008

By: Dr. John S. Meyer

NINDS Stroke Study Group has recommended intravenous (IV) or intra-arterial (IA) thrombolytic therapy in acute ischemic stroke utilizing recombinant tissue plasminogen activator (rtpa) for treatment of acute ischemic stroke, as approved by the U.S. FDA; provided that treatment is initiated within 3 hours for intravenous and within 4 hours via arterial catheters inserted into thrombosed cerebral vessels, timed from the time of stroke onset

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8/20/2008 · Medical

By: Dr. Sat Sharma, MD, FRCPC, FCCP, FACP

Non-invasive ventilation (NIV) is the delivery of ventilatory support without the need for an invasive artificial airway. Mechanical ventilation via intubation is associated with many complications, including upper airway trauma, arrhythmia, hypotension, aspiration of gastric contents, sinusitis, pneumonia, and patients’ loss of ability to eat and communicate verbally

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3/2/2008 · Medical

By: Carol Hayes, RN, BSN, CLNC

In every medical related case there are areas of the medical record that should be evaluated regardless of the type case or the surrounding circumstances. These areas of the record are important because they can contain key pieces of information about what did or did not occur during the care of that particular patient

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10/30/2006 · Medical

By: Dwain M. Daniel, DC, Ronald L. Rupert, MS, DC

Background: Although over 70% of chiropractic physicians utilize ultrasonic therapy (UST), there has never been an investigation of the calibration or electrical safety of this commonly used therapeutic modality within the chiropractic profession

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12/15/2005 · Bacteria - Fungus - Mold Investigation

By: Dr. Joseph Guth

Water and molds have been here much longer than Man. We utilize some, coexist with others, and battle many more of them. Molds help us make cheese, produce penicillin and other useful medicines; but they can also harm us. It is the latter problem that requires a better response from the medical community

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12/5/2005 · Pain Management

By: Dr. Steven Richeimer

Traditionally, pain in children is a topic that has received only minimal attention.Much of our understanding of pain in children has been extrapolated from adult studies.As recently as 20 years ago clinicians felt that it was unnecessary to prevent or treat pain in children because the prevailing opinion was that

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5/27/2005 · Toxicology

By: Thomas H. Milby, MD

Hydrogen sulfide and sulfur dioxide are two sulfur-based gases that exhibit entirely different toxicological characteristics. Litigation issues involving these two gases are as different as are their disparate toxic effects in humans

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