A Singaporean naval diver suffered symptoms and signs of cerebral arterial gas embolism (CAGE) following a panicked ascent from a depth of 5-6 metres' sea water while using a Dräger LAR V closed-circuit oxygen rebreather system. He presented with altered mental status and paresis. CAGE due to gas mixtures with high oxygen content has seldom been reported. The diver had no sequelae following pro...

What health professionals know about medicines resembles the information provided in the advertisements of pharmaceutical companies rather than the scientific literature. Drug companies spend 15-20% of their income on promotion. They are responsible for providing adequate information about drugs, and the wording and illustrations should be consistent with the scientific data sheet for the drug ...

This is a pamphlet which aims at proving that, " There can be at this time little doubt that the reason of the failure of the older surgeons to obtain satisfactory results (in excisions of the mamma, &c., for cancer) was due, in the first place, to septic infection, and in the second place, to late and incomplete operations. The remedy seems at pi'esent to be largely in the hands of the general...

The performance of many envisioned applications in shortrange wireless ad hoc networking will critically rely on the promptness of the self-configuring network procedures. In that sense, a fundamental problem in ad hoc networks, is the device discovery and/or network initialization. In this paper we propose a randomized distributed algorithm for rapid device discovery during the deployment of a...

This study shows that analysts vary significantly in their responsiveness to earnings announcements, where responsiveness is defined as promptness of analysts’ first forecast revisions for the next quarter since the prior quarterly earnings announcements. Further evidence indicates that analysts’ responsiveness improves the efficiency of their expectations of future earnings immediately after t...

Providing good service quality is of great strategic importance in the management any organization. Besides ensuring excellent clinical care, hospitals should also focus on providing to their patients and visitors. The findings from this study could provide useful information as how better manage services harness technologies enhance quality. shows that there still a lot room for improvement he...

A new biosensor for the real-time analysis of thrombus formation is reported. The fast and accurate monitoring of the individual thrombotic risk represents a challenge in cardiovascular diagnostics and in treatment of hemostatic diseases. Thrombus volume, as representative index of the related thrombotic status, is usually estimated with confocal microscope at the end of each in vitro experimen...

Sixty patients with positive acid fast bacilli sputum smears between were enrolled consecutively between March and August 2012 in the Saint-Louis (Senegal) health district to determine the Health System Delay in response to tuberculosis. The length of time between the first consultation of a TB patient and the start of treatment was, on average, 8.1 days and is among the shortest in the literat...

Human bites to the face are very rare and only one case of human bite to the eyebrow has so far been reported. The final functional and cosmetic result of reconstruction mainly depends on the size of the injury, the viability of the tissue and the promptness of surgical intervention. We here present one case of human bite to the eyebrow that resulted in complete avulsion and loss of tissue due ...

We investigate the surface gravity and hydro-acoustic wave fields, generated by the 2011 Tohoku-Oki tsunamigenic event using a numerical model based on a computationally efficient depth-integrated equations for a compressible water column coupled to a dissipative sedimentary layers. Spectral analysis of bottom pressure time series obtained in deep water revealed the role of underlying layer on ...