In April 2010, Dallas County Health and Human Services (DCHHS) staff members investigated reports of acute-onset dizziness among patrons in a local restaurant. Symptoms, which included fainting resulting from low blood pressure, occurred within minutes of consuming food from the restaurant and were consistent with chemical poisoning. Toxicologic and epidemiologic investigations were begun to de...

BACKGROUND Fatigue is a common debilitating symptom in chronic kidney disease patients on maintenance hemodialysis. However, little is known about its pathogenesis and association with survival. METHODS This study examines the correlates and outcomes of fatigue among 1,798 hemodialysis patients enrolled in the HEMO study. Fatigue was assessed using the SF-36 vitality scale. Multivariable anal...

three hundred and seventy seven patients with different degrees of heat stroke were treated by the haji medical team of the islamic republic of iran in 1371 (1992). studies were carried out on sex of the patients, time and intensity of occurance and the vital signs after a medical examination. the most important method of treatment employed for intense heat stroke was iced bath. this procedure ...

Currently available preparations of polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) cement for percutaneous vertebroplasty have injectability times of 4-15 minutes. The potential for early polymerization requires procedures to be performed as fast as possible, sometimes with suboptimal results and waste of the cement. By cooling the PMMA mixture in an iced bath of sodium chloride solution, we can extend its inje...

Major disasters and losses would be caused by the galloping of transmission lines. The basis for studying mechanism lines is to analyze aerodynamic characteristics iced conductors. wind tunnel test a traditional way obtain coefficients an line under load. Due high cost long duration tests, experimental method based on machine learning predict proposed. Here, steady unsteady conductor different ...

wrist; and temperature below par. The boy and the girl were found restless and craving for iced water constantly (unquenchable thirst). On enquiry I learnt that they were under regular treatment from the beginning, getting astringents, and stimulants regularly ; but the stomach became so irritable, the moment the medicine was administered it was brought up the very next moment. I at once propos...