By pointing out that a stable supply of marine fish can no longer be taken for granted, Dr Watson and Dr Pauly have raised an important alarm.
But, he adds, the paper "raises an important alarm with potential implications way beyond the boundaries of China".
Five clinically important alarm scenarios ('smart alarms') were programmed into the bedside monitors using the Event Surveillance software (Table 1).
Patients with malignant tumours of the upper gastrointestinal tract tumours exhibit important alarm symptoms such as dysphagia that warrant clinical investigations.
We investigated the incidence rates of non-cancer diagnoses in primary care in patients who presented with four important alarm symptoms.
At least two recent persuasive studies launched an important alarm signal [ 6, 7]: compared with continuous RRT, initiation of IHD in critically ill adults with acute kidney injury is associated with a higher likelihood of chronic dialysis.
Dysphagia in the absence of symptoms suggestive of gastro-oesophageal reflux disease, particularly when progressive, should clearly be taken seriously, and our data suggest that dysphagia is an important alarm symptom for the diagnosis of cancer or oesophageal stricture.
It is an important alarm symptom, especially when associated with other upper gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms like dyspepsia, chronic gastrointestinal bleeding, progressive unintentional weight loss, persistent vomiting, iron deficiency anaemia or epigastric mass.
Nevertheless, patients with these tumours exhibit important alarm symptoms, for example, dysphagia, dyspepsia, chronic gastrointestinal bleeding, progressive unintentional weight loss, progressive difficulty in swallowing, persistent vomiting, iron deficiency anaemia or epigastric mass that warrant further clinical investigations.
