Background In recent years the roles of esthetics and patient comfort have become increasingly important in dentistry. Paralleling this development, the role of root coverage procedures to treat gingival recession has gained more importance in periodontics. Gingival recession and its corollary, root exposure, may result in several undesirable sequelae, including compromised esthetics; root sens...

Copyright © 2011 Massachusetts Medical Society. Ultrasonography is a safe and effective form of imaging that has been used by physicians for more than half a century to aid in diagnosis and guide procedures. Over the past two decades, ultrasound equipment has become more compact, higher quality, and less expensive, which has facilitated the growth of point-of-care ultrasonography — that is, ult...

conclusions nursing process indicators can be used to audit nursing care. such audits can be used as quality assurance tools. results the compliance rate of nursing process indicators was 79.71 ± 0.87. mean compliance scores did not significantly differ by education level and gender. however, overall compliance scores were correlated with nurses’ age (r = 0.26, p = 0.001) and work experience (r...

Background The American Heart Association has reported that coronary artery disease affects over 13 million people in the United States and is the number one cause of death in that country.1 Over the past 20 years, one of the more popular procedures for treating coronary artery stenosis has been percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA). However, PCTA has some shortcomings, and in s...

Manifestations and �onsequences The symptoms of temporal arteritis are highly variable. The occurrence of frequent (e.g., daily) temporal or occipital headaches that are resistant to regular analgesics is the most common symptom, found in two-thirds of patients.6 Fever, present in 50% of cases, is usually moderate.6 Anorexia with weight loss and asthenia is observed in one-third of patients.6 I...

dealing with life-threatening situations requires the quickest, most effective response. each time the emergency phone number 115 is dialed, ems is ready to act and dispatch the rescue services needed. whether it is a fire, road accident, crime or medical crisis, the caller in distress should receive support from emergency services and lives should be saved. to be able to meet the required resp...

in previous studies we first concentrated on utilizing crisp simulationto produce discrete event fuzzy systems simulations. then we extendedthis research to the simulation of continuous fuzzy systems models. in this paperwe continue our study of continuous fuzzy systems using crisp continuoussimulation. consider a crisp continuous system whose evolution depends ondifferential equations. such a ...