BACKGROUND Obstruction of the natural airway, while usually easily recognised and managed, may present simply as desaturation, have an unexpected cause, be very difficult to manage, and have serious consequences for the patient. OBJECTIVES To examine the role of a previously described core algorithm "COVER ABCD-A SWIFT CHECK", supplemented by a specific sub-algorithm for obstruction of the na...

We have been exploring the use of telomere length as a technique to age animals. If telomere restriction fragments (TRFs) shorten predictably with age in a particular tissue, then measurement of TRFs will allow estimation of ages of animals when age cannot be measured directly. This would be particularly useful in population studies where tissue samples can be collected, but age of individuals ...

PREPARATION: LONG-TERM RESCUE AND DISASTER-RELIEF STRATEGIES: Located only 50 miles from the Gulf Coast and Galveston, Houston, Texas, is familiar with the challenges posed by hurricanes, tropical storms, and flooding. The hospitals of Houston and Harris County are no strangers to the aftermath of such natural disasters, themselves being victims of massive damage in 2001, when the entire Housto...

BACKGROUND Natural disasters, war, and terrorist attacks, have been linked to cardiac mortality. We sought to investigate whether a major financial crisis may impact on the medical management and outcomes of acute coronary syndromes. METHODS We analyzed the Argentine cohort of the international multicenter Global Registry of Acute Coronary Events (GRACE). The primary objective was to estimate...

according to the global fuel crisis, it seems necessary to use alternative fuel instead of gasoline. since the natural gas is cheaper, have higher frequency than gasoline and less pollution, it is a suitable fuel. many efforts have been done in order to replace gasoline with natural gas. one of the methods is to inject natural gas and gasoline fuel simultaneously and to use the benefits of both...

SCoT is a tutorial dialogue system that engages students in natural language discussions through a speech interface. The current instantiation, SCoT-DC, is applied to the domain of shipboard damage control—the task of containing the effects of crises (e.g. fires) that occur aboard Navy vessels. This paper describes a recent evaluation of SCoT-DC and presents preliminary results showing: (1) the...

In case of emergency, the actors must quickly make decisions to solve the crisis in the best possible way. This study proposes a method assisting these actors in their choices while carrying out a performance evaluation of the activities run during the crisis response process. Currently, in many various crises, the evaluation of performance is solely used afterwards due to difficulties in gathe...

In 2010, Haiti was struck by the worst natural disaster in 200 years. The work of first responders was helped by micro-blogging services and crisis mapping systems that were deployed for rescue missions. These systems provided the capability to reshape the crisis response by facilitating collective response through citizen reports, visualization and interactive mapping by (1) enabling crisis in...

The experience feedback on a crisis that hit a city is frequently used as a “recollection” tool. To capitalize information about an experience feedback from the cities that have been affected by a natural hazard, the authors propose in this study a functional model to model scenarios of city crises. In this model, the city, considered as a complex system, was modelled using a functional analysi...