For each patient the following data were collected: age, sex, weight, height, SAPS II, number of chest drains, number of ultrasound scans performed, number of significant PE (at least 2 cm of width between the two pleurae), amount of ultrasound-guided drainage actually performed within the first 24 hours, timing of resolution of PE.
We found the use of a drain, number of operations, CHF, diabetes, and site of injury independently predicted SSI after operative fracture treatment.
Backward and forward selection yielded identical results, including the same six of the 13 candidate variables tested: wound drain, number of operations, CHF, diabetes, tibial shaft/tibial plateau injury site, and elbow injury site.
In the lead role, Pitt seduced and drained a number of women, bumping off those who might stand in her way, before being dispatched by Peter Cushing.
But he said that fixing the leak, which has existed for decades, would prove difficult and would drain a number of ponds and streams that have formed above it.
In addition, mire specialist butterflies responded negatively to environmental variables associated with drained mires (number of tall trees) and positively to pristine mire-associated variables (larval food plant cover, number of low trees).
In attempting to address the challenges of brain drain, a number of strategies have been used in an attempt to expand HCW resource allocation and rebalance incentive structures.
It was difficult to pinpoint the cause of the battery drains, with a number of suspected culprits being called out, including a calendar bug, a time zone bug and issues with iOS 5's location services.
Seth Mydans (NYT) MIDDLE EAST IRAN: BRAIN DRAIN -- The number of young professionals leaving Iran has reached an "alarming level," the organizer of an international youth exhibition said.
The rete is drained by a number of small ducts—usually fewer than ten called the vasa efferentia, which are modified kidney tubules.
The eastern (Gulf of Aqaba and Dead Sea) basin and the western (Gulf of Suez) basin are both drained by a number of small streams.
