BACKGROUND AND AIMS Safe airway management is the cornerstone of contemporary anaesthesia practice, and difficult intubation (DI) remains a major cause of anaesthetic morbidity and mortality. The surgical category, particularly cardiac surgery as a risk factor for DI has not been studied extensively. The aim of this study was to test the hypothesis whether cardiac surgical patients are at incre...

Recoverable creep compliance JR(t) was analytically calculated for polymer chains relaxing through the Rouse and reptation mechanisms at short and long time scales, respectively. The ratio of the longest relaxation times of these mechanisms, rτ = τRouse/τrep, was varied from 0.056 to 0.0033. The calculation indicated that the effect of the fast Rouse mechanism on the distribution of slow modes ...

Full accessibility to people with reduced mobility, applied tourism, is difficult achieve and should not be seen in an absolute way, but as a concern make tourism services more accessible focused on the specific individual needs of tourists. National regional entities adopt good practices build all, for all. The Delphi method was used order verify attractiveness city Lisbon tourist destination ...

Mountain cities are characterized by undulating terrain, complex road networks, and diverse facilities, which makes accessing food more difficult than in with a flat terrain. This study proposes an enhanced two-step method based on the Baidu map service for construction of supermarket–market–retail sales architecture calculating accessibility. The accessibility indices seven major categories (g...

The combined decentralisation of many firms and services the increasing concentration traditional public transport in main corridors urban centres have made it more difficult for people to access jobs, particular when residing outside these prime accessibility areas. This is first national study within context Great Britain examine whether better job accessibility, modelled at micro level indiv...

Majority of the million plus cities in India are facing serious problems of traffic congestion and pollution due to the unprecedented and rapid pace of urbanization in last decade. City planners are providing solution to these twin problems by developing Mass Rapid Transit System including Metro and BRT in many Indian Metropolitan cities. The availability of transit network and pedestrian acces...

The clinical presentation of appendicitis in the newborn is nonspecific. The diagnosis was always made after surgical exploration for acute abdominal findings mimicking necrotizing enterocolitis. We report the case of acute appendicitis in a newborn diagnosed intraoperatively after neonatal occlusion symptoms.

BACKGROUND Unintentional injury is a major cause of death across the globe. The accessibility to emergency medical services may affect the rate of preventable trauma deaths. The purpose of this study was to analyze the accessibility to emergency medical hospitals in municipalities in Japan and to clarify whether accessibility was associated with the mortality rate attributed to unintentional in...

Accessibility, the ease of reaching destinations through a transport network, holds great potential to help foster equitable and sustainable cities. Though equity analyses are often considered in accessibility studies, only recently have researchers begun consider older adults' access destinations. In context an aging population, this paper presents systematic review literature on using public ...