the emergency severity index (esi) is a five-level triage system that has shown promising reliability and validity. according to esi algorithm, in the presence of danger zone respiratory rate (rr), heart rate (hr) or oxygen (o2) saturation, patients should be up-triaged from esi level 3 to 2 hence, the current study aimed to investigate the value of the measurement of vital signs in predicting ...

General nonlinear equations describing reversed shear Alfven eigenmode (RSAE) self-modulation via zero frequency zonal structure (ZFZS) generation are derived using gyrokinetic theory, which then applied to study the spontaneous ZFZS excitation as well RSAE saturation. It is found that both electrostatic flow (ZF) and electromagnetic current (ZC) can be preferentially excited by finite amplitud...

BACKGROUND A pretrial clinical improvement project for the BOOST-II UK trial of oxygen saturation targeting revealed an artefact affecting saturation profiles obtained from the Masimo Set Radical pulse oximeter. METHODS Saturation was recorded every 10 s for up to 2 weeks in 176 oxygen dependent preterm infants in 35 UK and Irish neonatal units between August 2006 and April 2009 using Masimo ...

The defect-free IDDQ has two major components: (i) the reverse biased p-n junction leakage current, and (ii) the transistor sub-threshold leakage (off) current. The reverse biased p-n junction leakage current can be further divided into two segments: state dependent, and state independent. The state dependent component p-n junction leakage current depends on the reverse biasing of the p-n junct...