1. Stay focused and be prepared.Hitting the bullseye on one try will depend on the nurse’s preparation and skill. You and your patient should be composed as a nervous and rushed procedure will likely result in failure. Allayanxietyby explaining the procedure to the patient and determine the ...
Manual auscultatory measurement of upper arm blood pressure (BP) with a mercury sphygmomanometer was the gold standard non-invasive test and mainstay clinical method to diagnose hypertension in the twentieth century [1,2] This indirect measurement method, as well as automated BP methods, was used...
to the high-risk clinic with the suspected complications. The reactive hyperemia index (RHI), and the Augmentation Index (AIX%) were extracted from the patient database using measured values obtained with the assistance of the Endo PAT, a device set to measure the signal of the peripheral ...
Therefore, there is a need to determine a new, easily-accessible tool which can be utilized to identify children who require closer cardiology care. Carotid intima-media thickness (cIMT) measurement is one of the best verified non-invasive methods of prognosing atherogenesis and evaluating ...
The objective of the model is to determine the optimal assignment and scheduling for each order so as to minimize energy consumption, which allows to improve energy efficiency. Next, a black hole optimization-based heuristic is described, whose performance is validated with different benchmark ...