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Hypertensive Emergencies in the Emergency Department

Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America, 2015
Hypertension affects approximately one-third of Americans. An additional 30% are unaware that they harbor the disease. Significantly increased blood pressure constitutes a hypertensive emergency that could lead to end-organ damage. When organs such as the brain, heart, or kidney are affected, an intervention that will lower the blood pressure in ...
Omoyemi, Adebayo, Robert L, Rogers
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Allergic emergencies in the emergency room

Clinical Reviews in Allergy & Immunology, 1999
It is now clear that the prevalence of allergic diseases is increasing everywhere. For example, the cumulative prevalence of allergic diseases places them second as a cause of morbidity in the American population. It has been estimated that 10% of the US populat ion will have asthma or eczema, 10-15% allergic rhinitis, and 10-15% a drug allergy during ...
F, Staikowsky, C, Zanker, L, Casenove
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The Emergence of Emergence

2002
Abstract The writer of Ecclesiastes who proclaimed that “The thing that hath been is that which shall be; and that which is done shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun” was taking an extremely short-term point of view.
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Hci for emergencies

CHI '08 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2008
Emergencies put people in a particular state of mind and often also in difficult physical situations. When de-signing information technology for emergencies, these two sides have to be taken into account in the various activities supporting design. This includes studying and understanding the users and the influential factors for good designs, engaging
Klann M., Malizia A, Chittaro L., Cuevas I.A., Levialdi S.   +4 more
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Pediatric emergencies: thoracic emergencies

European Radiology, 2002
Emergencies always require rapid diagnosis and an urgent or semi-urgent medical, interventional, or surgical action. In most cases radiology plays an essential role in making an accurate diagnosis. Reviewing the causes of acute respiratory pathology in the different pediatric age groups, we thought it would be interesting to divide the pathologies into
L, Breysem, S, Loyen, A, Boets, M, Proesmans, K, De Boeck, M-H, Smet   +5 more
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Emergent Microservices in Emergent Ecosystems

2020 IEEE/ACM 13th International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC), 2020
Microservices deployed on cloud infrastructures are becoming the de facto standard for creating large-scale adaptive systems. This scenario is due to the current demand for flexible and adaptive solutions to deal with increasingly volatile operating environments. However, microservices do not solve the entire problem on their own.
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Emerging therapies in the emerging world

Journal of NeuroInterventional Surgery, 2014
It's a numbers game, or so they say. “It's the economy stupid”, say others. The ‘economies of scale’ chime in the corporate gurus from Toyota to Microsoft. Any way you cut it, there is a gradual impetus among investors, entrepreneurs, and corporations to move east. That's where the people are—and not just a few but, oh, so many.
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Zika Virus: Emergence and Emergency

Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases, 2016
S ince chikungunya virus (CHIKV) emerged on an epidemic scale on islands in the Indian Ocean, and subsequently invaded the Americas, Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases has published numerous articles, including a dedicated issue in 2015 (Volume 15, Issue 4). The introduction of chikungunya virus into the Americas was preceded by West Nile virus in 1999,
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Office emergencies and emergency kits

The Journal of the American Dental Association, 2002
Preparedness to recognize and appropriately manage medical emergencies in the dental environment includes the following: current BLS certification for all office staff; didactic and clinical courses in emergency medicine; periodic office emergency drills; telephone numbers of EMS or other appropriately trained health care providers; emergency drug kit ...
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The Emergence of Emergence

Abstract In this chapter, it is argued that Plato was the first to introduce emergence in the history of Western thought, in his dialogue the Theaetetus. Emergence serves to address what would have otherwise been left as an open problem within Plato’s metaphysical system.
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