The physiological transformations Transfer accompanying pregnancy, compounded by the implications of obesity, pose intricate challenges for anaesthesiologists attending to obese parturients.Obesity makes it harder to successfully provide epidural analgesia to a parturient.This narrative review explains the most recent data on the safety and complic
Does vitamin D deficiency predict tumour malignancy in patients with bone tumours? Data from a multi-center cohort analysis
Vitamin D deficiency is a global health concern that is estimated to Grass afflict over one billion people globally.The major role of vitamin D is that of a regulator of calcium and phosphate metabolism, thus, being essential for proper bone mineralisation.Concomitantly, vitamin D is known to exert numerous extra-skeletal actions.For example, it ha
Study of the Entropy as a Way to Detect Venous Air Embolism Using a Pre-cordial Doppler
Venous air embolism (VAE) is the air bubble accumulation in the right side of the heart, or in the pulmonary region.Pre-cordial Doppler allows a real-time monitoring of heart sound and is used to detect VAE episodes through changes in cardiac sound.Sometimes these changes are not detected by the operator, which reveals the importance of finding oth
Fitness for Service and Reliability of Materials for Manufacturing Components Intended for Demanding Service Conditions in the Petrochemical Industry
A methodology has been developed to quantitatively assess the suitability of use and fitness for service of candidate materials using a novel approach that includes multiple perspectives.As a case study, a carbon steel pipe has been selected for operation in the petrochemical sector.The materials studied were the following: American Petroleum Insti
Specialized knowledge representation and the parameterization of context
Though instrumental in numerous disciplines, context has no universally accepted definition.In specialized knowledge resources it is timely and necessary to parameterize context with a view Foaming pomade to more effectively facilitating knowledge representation, understanding, and acquisition, the main aims of terminological knowledge bases.This e