Acute pain assessment by using NRS is a part of a vital sign monitoring parameter included into the triage protocol of the department.
Imaging was performed at two time points post-injection of 18F-FDG: an initial early acquisition at 101.5 ± 15.0 min and a later acquisition at 251.7 ± 18.4 min, as per the standard clinical protocol of our department for characterisation of masses in patients with NF1 [8].
According to Missouri's law (to take just one example), "The identities of members of the execution team, as defined in the execution protocol of the department of corrections, shall be kept confidential".
Pregnancies were monitored as requested by the obstetric observation protocol of our department.
All patients had received a clinical examination and regular ECG's, following the standard protocol of the department, with no indication of unrecognized somatic disease.
All patients had a laryngeal biopsy before modified SCL and the stage was determined by videolaryngoscopy, neck ultrasound, and contrast whole body computed tomography, in accordance with the staging protocol of our department.
The standard tumor follow-up protocol of the ENT department was used to examine patients' medical status.
Despite the brutality of the accusations — and their echo of previous events, like the 1997 sodomy of Mr. Louima in a Brooklyn station house — and despite early attention, Mr. Mineo's case has not sparked the same kind of public protest, or changes of protocol within the department.
The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of department protocol, called the latest wave of arrests "a last gasp effort to maintain control over things".
Extrapolating our results to department level, we showed a difference of €7.891 between a complete and incomplete administration protocol per department per year, which is comparable to the costs of three preventable ADEs.
"Looking at this after the investigation, I don't think we found any criminality -- certainly no criminality and certainly no serious violation of department protocols," said Assistant Chief Thomas P. Fahey, a spokesman.
