Methods Secondary analysis of prospective observational multicentric study in 148 spanish ICUs. Data was obtained of GTEI / SEMICYUC (2009-2014) registry. All patients with Influenza Virus A (H1N1) confirmed with rt-PCR were included. Ventilatory strategy, demographics and hemodynamic data, comorbidities and severity indexes were evaluated and they were correlated with mortality. Chi-square (ca...

Material and Methods All patients admitted to the ICU with the diagnosis of spontaneous ICH were collected. We determine the hematoma volume at admission with the modified formula Kothari (AxBxC / 2 cc), the location of hemastom as posterior fossa or supratentorial, severity scales (GCS at admission, SOFA, APACHE II), medical history and complications during the ICU admission. Used percentils (...

Materials Multicenter, prospective, observational study from February 3 to April 3, 2014. We included all adult critically ill patients of 26 CCUs of Spain who had diarrhea. All feces samples were sent to the reference laboratory and we considered CDI when cytotoxicity in cell culture or toxigenic culture were positive. The ribotypes were determined by PCR. Incidence of CDI, clinical characteri...

Background and Aim: Despite the increasing prevalence of infection with some blood-borne viruses, no standard precautions have been developed so far based on the Health Belief Model (HBM). This study aimed to assess, based on the HBM, the predictors of adherence to standard precautions in preventing needle stick injuries among the Personnel of Sanandaj Teaching Hospitals, Sanandaj City, Iran in...

This paper describes the use of a microsphere sensor technology that allows simple fabrication of vapor sensor arrays with reproducible response patterns. Microsphere sensor fabrication protocols are uncomplicated and yield billions of highly reproducible sensors. Microsphere sensor arrays combined with a generalized Whitney-Mann-Wilcoxen (GWMW) classifier were used to discriminate between the ...

In this paper, we propose two regularization approaches for the Boltz-mann collision operator. The constructed operators preserve the mass, momentum and energy; their equilibrium states are Maxwellians and they satisfy the H theorem. In the rst approach, the regularization consists in allowing microscopic collisions which do not exactly preserve energy and momentum. However, the limit of the mo...

In a mathematical approach to hypothesis tests, we start with a clearly defined set of hypotheses and choose the test with the best properties for those hypotheses. In practice, we often start with less precise hypotheses. For example, often a researcher wants to know which of two groups generally has the larger responses, and either a t-test or a Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney (WMW) test could be accep...

Increased emphasis on aircraft inspection to ensure aviation safety has resulted in the need for a better trained workforce of aircraft maintenance personnel. As almost 90% of inspection is visual in nature, it has led to the development of computer simulators to train human inspectors performing the inspection task. However, the lack of immersion and interaction has led to limited effectivenes...