Luckily for the dog and another golden retriever, the home was connected to a monitored alarm system that alerted responders before the fire could get worse.
Wired alarm system can connect to a monitoring service through the home's phone line, while a wireless system must be compatible with a cell phone to be connected to a monitoring service.
A real-time B-mode ultrasound scanner (485 Anser Vet, Pie Medical Equipment B.V., Maastricht, The Netherlands) with a 6.0-MHz rectal linear array transducer connected to a monitor and a video-recording system was used.
A 4- or 5-French arterial thermistor-tipped catheter (PV2014L16N, PV2014L22N, or PV2015L20N; Pulsion Medical Systems, Munich, Germany) was inserted in all patients and connected to a PiCCO® monitoring system (PiCCO Plus system or PiCCO 2 system) or Philips IntelliVue monitor (Philips Medical Systems, BG Eindhoven, The Netherlands) equipped with a PiCCO technology module.
Blood pressure monitoring catheters were connected to a calibrated monitoring system (Direc/NEP 201 B Physiologic Recording System, Raytech Instruments Inc, Vancouver, BC, Canada).
We studied 21 ARDS patients (PaO2/FiO2 = 165 ± 65), monitored with a Swan Ganz catheter, and a 4 F thermistore-tipped, fiberoptic catheter inserted through a femoral artery, both connected to a COLD monitoring system.
Twenty acute lung injury (ALI /ARDS patients were mechanically ventilated and connected to an integrated monitoring system (PICCO system; Agilent) by a fiberoptic arterial catheter (pv 2014L16) and a central venous catheter.
All patients were mechanically ventilated and connected to an integrated monitoring system (PICCO system/Agilent) by a fiberoptic arterial catheter (pv 2014L16) and by a Swan Ganz catheter.
All patients were mechanically ventilated (tidal volume 6 8 ml/kg, plateau pressure < 30 cmH2O) and connected to an integrated monitoring system (Flow Trac™/Vigileo™; Ewdards Lifescience, Irvine, CA, USA) that attaches to an arterial cannula.
The terminals are more like dressed-up lottery tickets, they say, all connected to a statewide system monitored by the state lottery division.
