Similarity of chest X-ray and thermal imaging of focal pneumonia: a randomised proof of concept study at a large urban teaching hospital.

Objective: To assess the diagnostic accuracy of thermal imaging (TI) in the setting of focal consolidative pneumonia with chest X-ray (CXR) as the gold standard.

Setting: A large, 973-bed teaching hospital in Boston, Massachusetts.

Participants: 47 patients enrolled, 15 in a training set, 32 in a test set.

The new American Heart Association cardiopulmonary resuscitation guidelines: should children and adults have to share?

Purpose Of Review: The latest American Heart Association guidelines for pediatric cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) were published in December 2005. Changes from the 2000 guidelines were directed toward simplifying CPR. Infants, children, and adults now share the same recommendation for the initial compression:ventilation ratio.