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The Triple Rule Out for Acute Ischemic Stroke: Imaging the Brain, Carotid Arteries, Aorta, and Heart
... In this study, we showed that our comprehensive stroke CT protocol, which includes the intracranial and cervical arteries, aortic arch, cardiac chambers and walls, and coronary arteries, is of adequate image quality ...
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The feasibility of the 1-h high-sensitivity cardiac troponin T algorithm to rule-in and rule-out acute myocardial infarction in Thai emergency patients: an observational study
... Earlier diagnosis and treatment of AMI can improve clin- ical outcome. Rapid exclusion is also helpful for the emer- gency department (ED) with limited resources or overcrowding. Recent approaches towards earlier ...
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Diagnostic aid to rule out pneumonia in adults with cough and feeling of fever A validation study in the primary care setting
... to rule out pneumonia in these patients; C-reactive protein (CRP) level, dyspnea (no/yes), and daily feeling of increased body temperature since onset of cough ...ruled out in patients with CRP ...
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The performance of non-invasive tests to rule-in and rule-out significant coronary artery stenosis in patients with stable angina: a meta-analysis focused on post-test disease probability
... to rule-out functional CAD. Consistently, the PTP range to rule-in functionally significant CAD was rather modest (≥71% [59, 81]) and only slightly superior to CCTA (≥75% [67, ...
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Validity of flounce sign to rule out medial meniscus tear in knee arthroscopy
... normal looking medial meniscus and in the absence of other intra-articular derangement and absence of floun- cing on inner edge, the surgeon can become more vigilant in searching for tear especially in areas like ...
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Do current cosmological observations rule out all covariant Galileons?
... the CG models are a much worse fit to the data, compared to Λ CDM, for whichever hierarchy is considered (see Table I), even the models, like G4 and G5, that have extra free parameters. The results of such a simple ...
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A multicentre, randomized, controlled open label trial to compare an Accelerated Rule Out protocol using combined prehospital copeptin and in hospital high sensitive troponin with standard rule out in patients suspected of acute Myocardial Infarction – the AROMI trial
... AMI rule-out protocol/ ...to rule out AMI safely, implementation of this fast rule-out protocol could optimize patient flow, reduce health care expenses and enable allocation of ...
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The FAST D protocol: a simple method to rule out traumatic vascular injuries of the lower extremities
... rapidly rule out/ in vascular injuries in patients who suffered from pen- etrating trauma of the lower extremities, by means of a 2-point Doppler ...
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Rule out eighth nerve tumor: contrast enhanced T1 weighted or high resolution T2 weighted MR?
... Our imaging strategy must be designed to rule out a tumor. The perfect or ideal test will detect every tumor and miss none. The morbidity of the test is a factor, and cost must be figured into the equation. ...
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Does the Collapsing Principle Rule Out Borderline Cases?
... If ‘F’ is a predicate, then ‘Fer than’ or ‘more F than’ is a correspond- ing comparative relational predicate. Concerning such comparative re- lations, John Broome’s Collapsing Principle states that, for any x and y, if ...
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Combination of Pulmonary Embolism Rule-out Criteria and YEARS Algorithm in a European Cohort of Patients with Suspected Pulmonary Embolism
... ruled out in patients with an unlikely clinical probability in combination with a normal high-sensitive D-dimer test, without any imaging tests ...Wells rule and revised Geneva score (4, ...safely ...
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MDCT Triple rule out angiography in the evaluation of acute Chest pain
... The imaging protocol used in the study was the standard Triple rule out angiogram protocol used in our hospital. All patients underwent TRO CT on a 256 slice MDCT scanner (Brilliance iCT 256 slice, Philips ...
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A decision aid to rule out pneumonia and reduce unnecessary prescriptions of antibiotics in primary care patients with cough and fever
... Second, we used Classification and Regression Trees (CART) in order to determine an easy-to use rule out criterion for pneumonia [16]. In contrast to the multiple models consisting of the complete set of 25 ...
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How Long Does It Take to “Rule Out” Bacteremia in Children With Central Venous Catheters?
... On multivariable analysis, BSIs caused by Gram-negative bacteria, whether in the con- text of a monomicrobial or polymicrobial infection, re- mained significantly associated with an earl[r] ...
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Neonatal Pneumoperitoneum Without Significant Adventitious Pulmonary Air: Use of Metrizamide to Rule Out Perforation of the Bowel
... Because of the massive pneumoperitoneum and the ab- sence of significant abnormal collections of air in the chest, it was felt that laparotomy was indicated, despite the negative contras[r] ...
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The child with chronic cough: when does double channel pH monitoring rule out gastroesophageal reflux
... Background: gastroesophageal reflux (GER) plays a major role in the pathogenesis of pediatric chronic airway disease. Esophageal pH-monitoring (epHM) is the diagnostic gold standard for acid GER. To date, there are no ...
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Jolt accentuation of headache: can this maneuver rule out acute meningitis?
... Results: Out of 250 patients, 227 were included and 64 (28.2%) had cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) changes compatible with meningitis. Jolt was positive in 40 of 64 (62.5%) meningitis patients. Sensitivity, specificity, ...
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A criterion to rule out torsion groups for elliptic curves over number fields
... other techniques, allows us to advance our understanding of the torsion groups of elliptic curves over K, both when K is a fixed number field and when K runs through all number fields of degree d. In particular, we make ...
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The urine dipstick test useful to rule out infections. A meta-analysis of the accuracy
... Two reviewers (WLJMD, JCY) selected the studies. The fol- lowing inclusion criteria were applied: publications should concern the diagnosis of bacteriuria or urinary tract infections, investigate the use of dipstick ...
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SUPREMACY OF LAW IS THE AIM, RULE OF LAW IS THE BEST TOOL TO ACHIEVE THIS AIM: ANALYSIS AND CRITICALLY EXAMINE THE SCOPE OF RULE OF LAW IN INDIA
... both rule of law and judicial ...the rule with the establishment of a judicial system which should able to work in the impartially and free from all ...The rule of law pervades over the entire field ...
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