BACKGROUND Misidentification of the cricothyroid membrane in a "cannot intubate-cannot oxygenate" situation can lead to failures and serious complications. The authors hypothesized that preprocedure ultrasound-guided identification of the cricothyroid membrane would reduce complications associated with cricothyrotomy. METHODS A group of 47 trainees were randomized to digital palpation (n = 23...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate disposable LMA for endotracheal intubation using the FOB guidance and blind techniques. MATERIAL AND METHOD The authors included ASA class I-II patients between 15 and 60 years of age, with mouth opening more than 3 cm, scheduled for elective surgery. The authors excluded patients with any history of gastro-esophageal reflux, full stomach or a body weight < 30 kg. All of...

Problem statement: The Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Intelligence (C4I) Systems provided situational awareness about operational environment and supported in decision making and directed to operative environment. These systems had been used by various agencies like defense, police, investigation, road, rail, airports, oil and gas related department. However, the increase use o...

texture image analysis is one of the most important working realms of image processing in medical sciences and industry. up to present, different approaches have been proposed for segmentation of texture images. in this paper, we offered unsupervised texture image segmentation based on markov random field (mrf) model. first, we used gabor filter with different parameters’ (frequency, orientatio...

To present a framework for compassionate teaching, the views of teachers and students on the topic were sought. These informants were chosen from among their corresponding populations in Tehran, using the snowball and mixed methods. Semi-structured interviews were used to gather the needed data. To analyze the data open coding and descriptive categorization were utilized. Results show that from...

Abstract. This paper describes how Semantic Web technologies have been used in an online community for knowledge sharing between clinicians in oral medicine in Sweden. The main purpose of this community is to serve as repository of interesting and difficult cases, and as a support for monthly teleconferences. All information regarding users, meetings, news, and cases is stored in RDF. The commu...

When the requirements of stakeholders are identified for the system development, the requirements collected should be formalized for their analysis and use. Zachman Framework is an enterprise architecture framework that provides a formal and highly structured way of viewing and defining an enterprise; it can provide a systematic way to formalize the requirements. This paper proposes an OWL onto...