The ability to predict the difficult airway to preempt difficult intubation would decrease the most common damages seen in the administration of anaesthesia. Many tests have been put forth over the years, some necessitating detailed quantitative measurements like the sternomental distance, thyromental distance and inter-incisor gap but others like the upper lip bite test is of a qualitative nat...

J Jo ou ur rn na al l C Cl lu ub b D De et ta ai il ls s Date of submission Feb 2010 What is the role of allied health in the treatment of infants with feeding disorders which are related to maternal anxiety/mental health? Review Question/PICO/PACO P Infants aged 0-18 months with feeding disorder/problems related to maternal anxiety/mental health I Multidisciplinary allied health therapy C no i...

An effective schistosome vaccine is a desirable control tool but progress towards that goal has been slow. Protective immunity has been difficult to demonstrate in humans, particularly children, so no routes to a vaccine have emerged from that source. The concept of concomitant immunity appeared to offer a paradigm for a vaccine operating against incoming larvae in the skin but did not yield th...

OBJECTIVES To examine and compare preferences of knowledge users for two different formats of summarizing results from systematic reviews: infographics and critical appraisals. DESIGN Cross-sectional. SETTING Annual members' meeting of a Network of Centres of Excellence in Knowledge Mobilization called TREKK (Translating Emergency Knowledge for Kids). TREKK is a national network of research...

D espite the increasing number of scientific publications, many physicians find themselves with less and less time to read what others have written. Selection, reading, and critical appraisal of publications is, however, necessary to stay up to date in one's field. This is also demanded by the precepts of evidence-based medicine (1, 2). Besides the medical content of a publication, its interpre...

Although deep learning has historical roots going back decades, neither the term “deep learning” nor the approach was popular just over five years ago, when the field was reignited by papers such as Krizhevsky, Sutskever and Hinton’s now classic 2012 (Krizhevsky, Sutskever, & Hinton, 2012)deep net model of Imagenet. What has the field discovered in the five subsequent years? Against a backgroun...

In view of recent applications in cardiovascular and functional brain imaging, this work revisits the basic performance characteristics of spiral imaging in direct comparison to echo-planar imaging (EPI) and conventional rapid gradient-echo imaging. Using both computer simulations and experiments on phantoms and human subjects at 2.9 T, the study emphasizes single-shot applications and addresse...