1013. If Blood Cultures Were Not Done Before Starting Antibiotics, Is It of Any Value to Obtain Them Later?

It Is Not worth Learning If It Is Not Remembered:

The collation, storage and retrieval of information are essential components of successful learning. Whether information is retained depends on a variety of factors, including how the information fits with an individual’s existing knowledge, the way in which information is presented, and its complexity. Some of these factors are under the direct control of the e-learning designers and developer...

If it may have happened before, it happened, but not necessarily before

Temporal uncertainty in raw data can impede the inference of temporal and causal relationships between events and compromise the output of data-to-text NLG systems. In this paper, we introduce a framework to reason with and represent temporal uncertainty from the raw data to the generated text, in order to provide a faithful picture to the user of a particular situation. The model is grounded i...

O3: Children are Not Small Adults! What should be done to Better Protect Them?

Road Traffic injuries are known as the most prevalent childhood injury and besides being the greatest cause of child mortality, place an extraordinary burden on health care system. Children’s limitation in cognitive, physical and social development makes them more vulnerable in road traffic injuries than adults. Their small structure cause challenges to see and be seen and their risk taki...

Is it really PPHN? Think before starting sildenafil!

The use of sildenafil has become a common practice in neonatal intensive care unit on clinical ground, because opinion by Pediatric Cardiologist is usually not available especially in peripheral centers. We consider it essential to share our experience that severe pulmonary arterial hypertension can be due to some unusual hemodynamics or extremely rare structural causes which do not require pul...

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