INTRODUCTION The objective of the study is to determine the level of agreement between measured total carbon dioxide (TCO2) and calculated bicarbonate (HCO3-) in our laboratory. MATERIALS AND METHODS TCO2 and HCO3- values of 1820 samples drawn at the same time from the patient were compared. TCO2 from venous samples was measured on Dimension RxL while HCO3- was obtained from arterial blood ga...

Electrodermal activity (EDA) is considered a measure of autonomous nervous system activity. This study performed an exploratory analysis of the EDA changes during blood pooling for arterial blood gas analysis in sedated adult critical care patients and correlated the variations to other monitored parameters. EDA, along with other parameters, were monitored during 4 h routine daytime intensive c...

☆ Authors' note: This research was supported a gran Humanities Research Council of canada (SSHRC) and by Motivation andAcademic Success. The third author'swork was supported by a research grant from the Australian Re DP140101559) and the first author's work was supporte Quebec Fund for Research, Society and Culture. A substan pared while the first author was completing his Ph.D (Québec, Canada)...

The interest in measuring physiological parameters (especially arterial blood gases) has grown progressively in parallel to the development of new technologies. Physiological parameters were first measured invasively and at discrete time points; however, it was clearly desirable to measure them continuously and non-invasively. The development of intensive care units promoted the use of ventilat...

Agents form coalitions with other agents. The coalition that forms with the largest power wins the tournament. A partition of the agents is a no threat equilibrium (NTE) if whenever a group of agents gains by forming their own coalition, there exist another group of agents that gains by forming their own coalition and harms at least one agent who initially deviated from the partition. We charac...

AND POPIGAI CRATERS: IMPLICATIONS TO UNDERSTANDING DYNAMIC-INDUCED NATURAL HIGH-PRESSURE PHASE TRANSITIONS IN THE CARBON SYSTEM. A. El Goresy, L. S. Dubrovinsky, Ph. Gillet, S. Mostefaoui, G. Graup, M. Drakopoulos, A. S. Simionovici, V. Swamy and V. L. Masaitis, MaxPlanck-Institut für Chemie, 55128 Mainz, Germany (E-mail: [email protected]), Bayerisches Geoinstitut, Universität Bayreuth,...

Exceeding nitrogen discharge into natural water bodies can lead to eutrophication in natural aquatic environments, as well as the decline in shellfish habitat and aquatic plant life. Currently, bacterial biological treatment process is the most common process employed in wastewater treatment plants, which requires extensive oxygen. The large demand for oxygen provided by mechanical aeration is ...

Most studies on global warming rely on global mean surface temperature, whose change is jointly determined by anthropogenic greenhouse gases (GHGs) and natural variability. This introduces a heated debate on whether there is a recent warming hiatus and what caused the hiatus. Here, we presented a novel method and applied it to a 5° × 5° grid of Northern Hemisphere land for the period 1900 to 20...

This document provides guidelines for the terminology, methodology, and for the interpretation of data obtained from the use of skin (transcutaneous) po(2) and pco(2) electrodes. The transcutaneous technique has found special application in newborn infants. The causes of analytical bias with respect to arterial blood gas values, and imprecision obtained with transcutaneous pco(2) electrodes, ar...