Background: Hypoglycemic patients treated by the emergency medical service (EMS) system are commonly left home. The criteria for leaving hypoglycemic patients at home and the appropriateness of the procedure remains, however, unvalidated. The present retrospective article addresses these questions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA catheter-transducer system consisting of a thin fluid-filled teflon catheter and a transducer with a low displacement volume is presented. The thin catheter is especially suited for registration of pressure and the time derivatives in small caliber vessels. From theoretical considerations it is concluded that the best way of obtaining a correct damping ratio in the range of 0.
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