CASE DESCRIPTION During second shift, a green-top specimen was received on ice with a request for uric acid determination. The young processing technician, unfamiliar with this situation, asked a supervisor why the specimen came down on ice. After the ordering provider was contacted, it was determined that a 9-year-old female with lymphoblastic lymphoma was being treated with rasburicase to mit...

T HE "VOICED MAIL" system of MIT's Architecture Machine Group allows users of a research computer system to access their electronic mail through a text-to-speech synthesizer (Speech Plus's Prose 2000) and a touchtone telephone. In an environment of heavy on-line mail usage, this system has gained acceptance by a community of about 30 subscribers needing to both read and transmit messages. To us...

Hitchcock's original method of hypothermic subarachnoid irrigation employed both temperature and osmolarity. Spinal cooling was then abandoned in favour of intrathecal injection of normothermic hypertonic salilne. Modifications of the procedure that followed have continued to accept hyperosmolarity as the factor causing pain relief. Fifty patients were treated by a technique evolved to enhance ...

The icing of aircraft on the ground is an important flight safety issue. Aircraft must be de-iced and anti-iced to remove protect from freezing frozen contamination, respectively, before during takeoff. Winter de-icing anti-icing operations are nonetheless costly, require a significant amount time, rely extensive infrastructures. essential equipment often not available at smaller airports remot...

Determining the aero-icing characteristics is key for safety assurance in aviation, but it may be a computationally expensive task. This work presents framework development of low-dimensional models application to aerofoil icing. The builds on: an adaptive sampling strategy identify local, nonlinear features across icing envelope continuous intermittent icing; classic technique based on Proper ...

Sweetened beverages, coffee, and tea are the most consumed non-alcoholic beverages and may have important health consequences. We prospectively evaluated the consumption of various types of beverages assessed in 1995-1996 in relation to self-reported depression diagnosis after 2000 among 263,923 participants of the NIH-AARP Diet and Health Study. Odds ratios (OR) and 95% confidence intervals (C...

Multichannel intraluminal impedance (MII) is a new technique for evaluation of bolus transport. We evaluated esophageal function using bolus transport time (BTT) and contraction wave velocity (CWV) of liquid, semisolid, and solid boluses. Ten healthy subjects underwent MII swallow evaluation with various boluses of sterile water (pH 5), applesauce, three different sized marshmallows, and iced a...

BACKGROUND/AIMS We aimed to define the dosing and risk factors for death in patients undergoing twice-weekly hemodialysis. METHODS A prospective multi-center cohort study was conducted with one-year observation. Patients treated with twice- or thrice-weekly hemodialysis were identified. Death and first admission were the outcomes. spKt/V was a factor of interest. RESULTS We enrolled 504 twi...

Changes in pigments and color of sardine and mackerel muscles during iced storage were investigated. When the storage time increased, a gradual increase in pH was observed. The total extractable pigment and heme iron content decreased (P<0.05), while the non-heme iron content tended to increase throughout storage. The soret band of myoglobin decreased with the concomitant decrease in redness in...