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AUTHOR
A. Guarino
Perioperative and periprocedural airway management and respiratory safety for the obese patient: 2016 SIAARTI Consensus.
Proper management of obese patients requires a team vision and appropriate behaviors by all health care providers in hospital. Specialist competencies are fundamental, as are specific clinical pathways and good clinical practices designed to deal with patients whose Body Mass Index (BMI) is ≥30 kg/m2. Standards of care for bariatric and non-bariatric surgery and for the critical care management of this population exist but are not well defined nor clearly followed in every hospital. Thus every anesthesiologist is likely to deal with this challenging population. Obesity is a multisystem, chronic, proinflammatory disorder. Unfortunately many countries are facing a marked increase in the obese…
Framing automatic grading techniques for open-ended questionnaires responses. A short survey
The assessment of students' performances is one of the essential components of teaching activities, and it poses different challenges to teachers and instructors, especially when considering the grading of responses to open-ended questions (i.e., short-answers or essays). Open-ended tasks allow a more in-depth assessment of students' learning levels, but their evaluation and grading are time-consuming and prone to subjective bias. For these reasons, automatic grading techniques have been studied for a long time, focusing mainly on short-answers rather than long essays. Given the growing popularity of Massive Online Open Courses and the shifting from physical to virtual classrooms environmen…
Imaging of non-glandular superficial metastases: A comparison of xeroradiography, ultrasonography and computed tomography
Between January 1983 and July 1987, 1,622 cancer patients were evaluated to outline the possible applications and limits of various investigative techniques for evaluating metastases. Seventy-three cases with superficial metastases of the dermal-hypodermal (59) layers, of the muscles (11) and of other target organs (3) were included in the study. Although non-glandular superficial metastases are a relatively rare occurrence, diagnostic imaging techniques are indicated for evaluating their extent and anatomical connections. Secondary neoplasms were studied using the imaging techniques of sonography, computed tomography and xeroradiography. The diagnostic reliability of these three techniques…
Efficacy of oral pancreatic enzyme therapy for the treatment of fat malabsorption in HIV-infected patients
IN TEMA DI SINDROME DA INTESTINO CORTO: Dati preliminari da una casistica nazionale multicentrica
La Sindrome da Intestico Corto (SIC) è la più frequente causa di insufficienza intestinale in età pediatrica. Allo scpo di conoscere al meglio il decorso, il trattamento e l'outcome di questi pazienti gli Autori hanno iniziato uno Studio retrospettivo nazionale sulla Sindrome da Intestino Corto e in questa sede vengono riportati i primi dati preliminari della ricerca.
Outcome dei pazienti con sindrome da intestino corto. valutazione da una casistica nazionale multicentrica
Gli Autori presentano i risultati di una ricerca nazionale multicentrica retrospettiva sulla Sindrome da Intestino Corto (SIC)