Several surgical methods are used to treat peritonsillar abscess, but no protocol for outpatient medical treatment has yet been published. Between February 2002 and February 2005, we treated 98 peritonsillar abscess patients with an outpatient medical regimen that involved hydration, antibiotics, steroids, and good pain control. All patients were Native Americans, who are known to have a partic...

Cuffless blood pressure (BP) monitors are noninvasive devices that measure systolic and diastolic BP without an inflatable cuff. They easy to use, safe, relatively accurate for resting-state measurement. Although commercially available from online retailers, must be approved or certificated by medical regulatory bodies clinical use. monitoring also need approved; however, only the Institute of ...

OBJECTIVES A low or moderate expired tidal volume can be difficult to achieve during noninvasive ventilation for de novo acute hypoxemic respiratory failure (i.e., not due to exacerbation of chronic lung disease or cardiac failure). We assessed expired tidal volume and its association with noninvasive ventilation outcome. DESIGN Prospective observational study. SETTING Twenty-four bed unive...

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is arguably the most versatile medical imaging technology. Its noninvasive character and the availability of the multitude of different types of contrast makes MRI particularly well suited for pre-clinical and clinical bio-medical applications. The first part of this presentation provides a review of selected applications of MRI in pre-clinical cancer research. ...

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M. Bedny, A. Caramazza, A. Pascual-Leone and R. Saxe Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA, Berenson-Allen Center for Noninvasive Brain Stimulation, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215, USA, Department of Psychology, Harvard University, William James Hall, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA an...

The present study furthered the concept of simulation-based medical education by applying a personalized active learning component. We tested this novel approach utilizing a noninvasive hemodynamic monitor with the capability to measure and display in real time numerous hemodynamic parameters in the exercising participant. Changes in medical knowledge concerning physiology were examined with a ...

As fast-developing medical imaging technology promotes modern medicine, computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and positron emission tomography (PET) are becoming widely used in clinical diagnosis and analysis. These systems have developed from tools for noninvasive examination and anatomical structure visualization to operation planning and simulation, operation navigation...