Towards the beginning of the last century, the main role of the cardiologist was in the art of diagnosis and treatment of valvular and congenital heart disease and heart failure. This was transformed around 50 years ago with the discovery of the potential benefits of closed cardiac massage and defibrillation in the management of acute myocardial infarction (MI). Indeed, the consequent developme...

The present study evaluated the prognosis at different troponin concentrations regardless of the underlying diagnosis in an unselected group of patients admitted to the coronary care unit (CCU) and whether the prognosis is dependent on the cause of the troponin increase. Troponin I was measured with the Stratus CS analyzer (Dade Behring) in 468 consecutively and unselected patients admitted to ...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to explore the thoughts, interpersonal processes, and actions used by nurses who had recently intervened to protect coronary care unit (CCU) patients from potential medical errors. METHODS The study used semistructured interviews conducted with 18 very experienced CCU nurses in two academic medical centers. Content analysis was used to code and analyze ...

COMPARISON OF THE EFFECT EDUCATIONAL INTERVENTION IN ANGIOGRAPHY WITH CCU ON COMPLICATIONS CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY

Seven strains of Mycoplasma hominis from human genital tracts were selected to produce antisera. The complement-dependent mycoplasmacidal (MC) activity and two complement-independent activities, metabolic inhibition (MI) and agglutination during growth (GA), of these sera were compared. The GA and MI tests were equivalent in titer and generally not affected by concentration of antigen; they rev...

The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) technique was used to detect Mycoplasma pneumoniae DNA in clinical samples (nasopharyngeal aspirations or bronchoalveolar lavages) obtained from 100 children, 1 month to 16 years old. PCR allowed the detection of M. pneumoniae DNA from 20 out of the 100 patients studied. In 16 cases, PCR positivity was associated with acute respiratory symptomatology. For fiv...

This paper extends the fibrational approach to induction and coinduction pioneered by Hermida and Jacobs, and developed by the current authors, in two key directions. First, we present a dual to the sound induction rule for inductive types that we developed previously. That is, we present a sound coinduction rule for any data type arising as the carrier of the final coalgebra of a functor, thus...

A prevalence study was conducted, measuring drug cost and prescribing patterns of clinicians treating cardiovascular patients in UKM Hospital (HUKM). One Hundred and thirty-five patients' case-notes were selected from the Case-Mix database of HUKM. The average and median number of drugs prescribed per patient was 7.56 (+/- 3.37) and 7.0 (+/- 3) respectively. Generic drug prescription rate was s...

Introduction: Improving quality of care is one of the challenges in health care services. In this regard, human factor is one of the important factors that affect the quality of care. The aim of this study was to assess nurses’ clinical performance in Critical Care Units (CCU) in teaching and non-teaching hospitals non-teaching hospitals of Qazvin city based on the Synergy Model. Materials & Me...

Floating-point matrix multiplication is arguably the most important kernel routine in many scientific applications. Therefore, its efficient implementation is crucial for the overall performance of any computer system targeting scientific computations. In this paper, we propose a holistic solution to accelerate matrix multiplication on reconfigurable hardware using the MOLEN polymorphic process...