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The authors used multivariate logistic regression to identify a set of factors associated with failure to accomplish ETI in adult out-of-hospital patients. Findings from this analysis could provide the basis for clinical protocols or decision rules aimed at minimizing the incidence of out-of-hospital ETI failure.

We have examined the effect of preoperative administration of nebulized lignocaine or saline on the intraocular pressure (IOP) response to tracheal intubation in 20 adults. In the saline group, tracheal intubation was associated with a significant increase in IOP above control and preintubation values (P less than 0.01); in the lignocaine group there was no change in IOP following intubation. After intubation, IOP was significantly less in the lignocaine group than in the saline group (P less than 0.05).

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Detection of the onset of seizure-activity in the EEG record of an epileptic patient is an important step in the localization of seizure foci. This study employs the use of three multilayer recurrent neural-network architectures to detect seizure-activity onset in multi-channel subdural EEG (SEEG) data. Representing each architecture as (input layer-hidden layer-output layer), the three neural networks examined were 5-10-5, 5-5-1, and 5-10-1.