Special Operations Medics Test the Novel iView Video Laryngoscope: A Prospective, Randomized, Crossover Trial.

Background: Airway compromise is the second leading cause of preventable death on the battlefield. Special operations medic comprise the majority of medics trained to perform endotracheal intubation (ETI), mostly by way of direct laryngoscopy (DL). The iView is a disposable, low-cost video laryngoscopy (VL) device, enabling its distribution to prehospital medical providers.

Is the availability of hospital IT applications associated with a hospital's risk adjusted incidence rate for patient safety indicators: results from 66 Georgia hospitals.

This study examines the associations between the availability of IT applications in a hospital and that hospital's risk adjusted incidence rate per 1,000 hospitalizations for Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's (AHRQ) 15 Patient Safety Indicators (PSIs). The study population consists of a convenience sample of 66 community hospitals in Georgia that completed a Hospital IT survey by December 2003 and provided data to Georgia Hospital Discharge Data Set during 2004. AHRQ's PSI software was used to estimate risk adjusted incidence rates.

Urban-rural differences in the availability of hospital information technology applications: a survey of Georgia hospitals.

Context: Information technology (IT) has been identified as a potential tool for improving the safety of health care delivery.

Purpose: To determine if there are significant differences between urban and rural community hospitals in the availability of selected IT functional applications and technological devices.

Methods: A mailed survey of community hospitals in Georgia assessing the current availability of IT applications (54.

Is stress-only imaging practical when a 1-day stress-rest 99mTc-tetrofosmin protocol is used?

Objectives: To investigate whether a significant number of normal 1-day stress-rest 99mTc-tetrofosmin myocardial perfusion scintigraphy (MPS) studies can be identified from the low-dose stress acquisition alone, and whether technical staff can find such studies reliably.

Methods: The supervising consultant and four technologists independently graded the stress acquisitions from 200 consecutive MPS studies using a five-point scale. Studies were classified as normal or abnormal according to the final clinical report based on the completed stress-rest protocol.

IGF-I, a marker of undernutrition in hemodialysis patients.

Early detection and treatment of malnutrition in patients on hemodialysis (HD) is hampered by lack of a sensitive biochemical marker. We compared the value of serum insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I) with other biochemical indices in detecting malnutrition in 61 HD patients. Protein and energy intakes were low in the majority of patients.