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Background: Manufacturers’ recommendations on cleaning of tracheostomy tubes focus on general warning information and non-specific manual cleaning procedures.
Leonhard, Matthias +3 more
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Background Post-extubation airway obstruction is an important complication of tracheal intubation. The cuff leak test is traditionally used to estimate the risk of this complication.
Kentaro Tokunaga +8 more
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Effect of the shape of the cuff on blood pressure measurement in people with large arms
Purpose: Previous data suggest that tronco-conical cuffs should be used for accurate blood pressure (BP) measurement in the obese. However, not only arm size but also its shape may affect the accuracy of BP measurement when a cylindrical cuff is used ...
Paolo Palatini +7 more
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Full-thickness rotator cuff tear and rotator cuff injury are frequently occurring diseases and widely exist in the social population. Surgical repair is the most effective treatment for rotator cuff tears and injuries.
Shihui He, Hao Xu, Shuhua Liu
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Rate-Distortion Theory for Secrecy Systems [PDF]
Secrecy in communication systems is measured herein by the distortion that an adversary incurs. The transmitter and receiver share secret key, which they use to encrypt communication and ensure distortion at an adversary.
Cuff, Paul, Schieler, Curt
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Secure Cascade Channel Synthesis [PDF]
We consider the problem of generating correlated random variables in a distributed fashion, where communication is constrained to a cascade network. The first node in the cascade observes an i.i.d.
Cuff, Paul, Satpathy, Sanket
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Background Some institutions reuse cuff syringes and do not periodically sterilize cuff pressure gauges. Pathogenic bacterial contamination of such equipment may increase the probability of pathogen transmission to patients during anesthetic procedures ...
Rieko Oishi +9 more
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Risk factors for rotator cuff tendinopathy: A systematic review and meta-analysis.
OBJECTIVES To conduct a systematic review and meta-analysis to identify risk and associated factors for symptomatic rotator cuff tendinopathy. DATA SOURCES PubMed, CINAHL and Scopus were searched from inception to June 2017.
H. Leong +5 more
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Vaginal cuff recurrence after radical cystectomy: an under - studied site of bladder cancer relapse [PDF]
Vaginal cuff recurrence of tumor following radical cystectomy is a rare site of disease recurrence, however it has never been specifically studied. The aim of the study is to evaluate incidence, risk factors, and long-term oncologic outcomes of vaginal ...
Boorjian, Stephen A +6 more
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The purpose of this study was to compare the standing lower extremity limb occlusion pressure (LOP) between two units. It was hypothesized that the Delfi unit, which utilizes a wider cuff (11.5 cm), would require significantly less LOP as compared to the
Alyssa M. Weatherholt +3 more
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