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Showing 1 to 20 of 115 for “"Life Support"”.
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Daily life support : building a collective neighborhood
… in the U.S. accommodate the present needs and lifestyles of the people who live in them? The single-family detached house and multi-family units like the triple-decker originated in an era quite unlike the one in which we now find ourselves. I intend to explore the possibility that we may not …
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Commonality analysis for exploration life support systems
… systems, offers opportunities to improve the lifecycle costs of portfolios of complex systems. In this thesis, a proposed methodology for commonality analysis is tested by application to a portfolio of life support systems for planetary surface exploration. A database of environmental control …
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Automatic temperature regulation in portable life support systems.
Thesis: M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1972
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Extended Reality Simulator for Advanced Training Life Support System
… medical professionals in Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) and pulse palpation. Existing pulse simulators have the disadvantages of being bulky, expensive, and unsuitable to be used as training tools. In addition, none of the simulators were designed to incorporate the auditory feedback …
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Preparing providers for advanced life support in the prehospital environment
… the skills and equipment to implement advanced life support (ALS). Despite the essential role of prehospital advanced emergency care in the treatment of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, at the time this research was commenced, ALS training courses had been designed for those responding to cardiac …
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An Intervention to Involve Family in Decisions about Life Support
… teams in the decision-making process about life support for critically ill patients in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). Setting. Adult medical-surgical ICU at a Canadian academic teaching hospital. Methods. The International Patient Decision Aid Standards (IPDAS) criteria and the …
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An Analysis of Hybrid Life Support Systems for Sustainable Habitats
… has motivated strategic planning with respect to life support (LS) system technology development and habitat design. Such planning requires LS system analyses including both high fidelity modeling and high level trade space exploration of candidate architectures. A particularly relevant trade for …
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How can we optimize bystander basic life support in cardiac arrest?
… The Emergency call services played an important supportive role and guided spouses in performing CPR (V). Conclusion: CPR training for cardiac care patients and co-habitants is important and feasible. The outcome of training has to be enhanced. Simplification of the message and reduction in …
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Newborn-Life-Support (NLS)-Kurse in Deutschland - Analysen von Kursen zur Neugeborenenreanimation
In Deutschland sowie in anderen Ländern wird eine Vielzahl von Reanimationskursen zur Neugeborenenreanimation angeboten. Gleichwohl wurde bisher noch kein in Deutschland angebotener Kurs hinsichtlich seiner Effektivität evaluiert. Ebenso wurde bisher nicht untersucht, in welchen Abständen ein …
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Homopolar bearingless slice motors with magnet-free rotors for extracorporeal life support
Extracorporeal life support (ECLS) is a medical therapy that uses an external blood pump and oxygenator to provide cardiac or cardiopulmonary support. One common system-related challenge is to reduce blood damage, e.g., hemolysis, which is primarily caused by the stress and heat from the pump …
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An evaluation of the knowledge and practices of basic cardiac life support instructors
U of I Only Restriction set for Item 115299 on 2020-06-26T15:07:11Z with date by lac7@illinois.edu.
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A needs assessment for continuous professional development for South African advanced life support providers
Dissertation submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Technology: Emergency Medical Care, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2011.
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Design and evaluation of elements of a life support system for mechanical counterpressure spacesuits
… design and testing of several key parts of the life support system for the BioSuit[superscript TM]. First, a breathing compensation bladder that covers the chest and is pneumatically continuous with the helmet is discussed. This bladder eases the burden of respiration associated with …
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An investigation into recruitment, retention and motivation of advanced life support practitioners in South Africa
… recruiting, retaining and motivating advanced life support (ALS) practitioners. The persistent shortage of ALS practitioners in South Africa (SA) poses a challenge to the effective delivery of prehospital emergency medical care. The global demand for SA trained ALS practitioners is steadily …
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Interprofessional Team Training in the Pediatric Life Support Program: Effects on Teamwork and Quality of Resuscitations
… program incorporated into Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) curriculum relative to resuscitation performance, presence of specific teamwork behaviors and perceptions of teamwork when compared to control group members. Although there were no significant differences in resuscitation …
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Multiple Perspectives, One Decision: An Ethnographic Study of Life Support Withdrawal After Severe Traumatic Brain Injury
… of a ""difficult"" case involving withdrawal of life support after severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) underscores the cultural contexts, national, biomedical, and local, in which medical decisions are made. The contributions of this project are threefold: (1) contextualization of clinical …
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Quantitative probabilistic modeling of environmental control and life support System resilience for long-duration human spaceflight
… human spaceflight, the Environmental Control and Life Support Systems (ECLSS) that sustain the crew in their habitat will have to function without rapid resupply or abort-to-Earth capability in the event of an emergency. In this environment, reliability and resilience will become more dominant …
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Waveform capnography in the South African prehospital setting: knowledge assessment of qualified advanced life support (ALS) paramedics
… survey of 80 out-of-hospital advanced life support paramedic providers in South Africa working in the private industry where capnography is available. Participants will be recruited with the assistance of the company's research committee using an email platform, and consent process. The …
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A description of practices of analgesia administration by advanced life support paramedics in the City of Cape Town
… of analgesic drug administration by advanced life support (ALS) paramedics. Patient care records (PCRs) generated in t he City of Cape Town during an 11 month period containing administrations of Morphine, Ketamine, Nitrates and 50% Nitrous Oxide/Oxygen were randomly sampled. Variables studied …
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