Our geographic illiteracy constitutes a threat to national security, contributing to poorly informed decision making in foreign policy and to ill-advised military interventions.
Finally, what predictions can be made in critically ill patients?
We did not have data about this issue in our setting, so we decided to perform a prospective trial in order to observe the main characteristics of tracheostomies made in critically ill patients in two of our centers: a general ICU and a trauma ICU.
Moreover, taken in their entire seven minute context -- and not just this 46-second edited video clip -- it appears that Williams' remarks, although bigoted and fairly stupid, were made in an ill-executed attempt to counter O'Reilly's even stupider and more bigoted assertions.
Zimmermann [8] introduced several operations research principles to help select the most appropriate method for solving a specific multi-criteria decision-making in ill-structured situations by using the analytic hierarchy process (AHP).
Introduction: Withholding and withdrawing life-sustaining therapy (LST) are complex ethical decisions made in many critically ill patients.
A total of 283 haemodynamic measurements were made in 45 critically ill patients (10 patients with ARDS, 10 patients with acute cardiogenic pulmonary oedema, 15 patients with septic shock and 10 patients with hepatic cirrhosis requiring TIPS).
"Thinking the Twentieth Century" concludes with a recapitulation of the defense of the welfare state made in his 2010 book "Ill Fares the Land," as well as a prolonged castigation of the Bush administration for the Iraq war and rising inequality.
Major advances have been made in monitoring the critically ill patient following the introduction in the 1970s of intravascular pressure and flow recording catheters [ 1].
In a world where rules quickly change, few trust or respect the law, and big profits can be made in grey areas of ill-regulated markets, the legitimacy of almost any businessman's wealth is open to question.
Until the 19th century, much of world history was made in the bedroom, where ill-assorted partners from strategically placed countries tried with varying success to get it together.
