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    Inventing the Future: Barlow and Beyond

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    Syfte: Syftet med studien var att kartlĂ€gga preventiva omvĂ„rdnadsĂ„tgĂ€rder för att förhindra ventilator-associerad pneumoni pĂ„ en thoraxintensivvĂ„rdsavdelning. Bakgrund: De vanligaste vĂ„rdrelaterade infektionerna pĂ„ intensivvĂ„rdsavdelningar Ă€r pneumonier och bland dessa Ă€r 80 % ventilatorassocierade. VĂ„rdrelaterade infektioner innebĂ€r stora kostnader för samhĂ€llet och ökat vĂ„rdlidande för den drabbade patienten. För att förhindra uppkomsten av ventilator-associerad pneumoni (VAP) finns ett antal omvĂ„rdnadsĂ„tgĂ€rder som har visat sig vara effektiva vad gĂ€ller att motverka VAP. Design: Studien Ă€r en journalgranskning med retrospektiv deskriptiv design. Metod: Ett klusterurval gjordes dĂ€r patienter som vĂ„rdats minst tvĂ„ pĂ„började dygn i respirator valdes ut. Totalt togs 126 journaler fram varav 17 journaler exkluderades och slutligen ingick totalt 109 journaler i studien. Journalerna granskades med hjĂ€lp av ett protokoll dĂ€r följande omvĂ„rdnadsĂ„tgĂ€rder kontrollerades: tandborstning, munvĂ„rd med klorhexidinlösning, antal utförda kufftrycksmĂ€tningar, registrerat kufftryck, höjd huvudĂ€nda, subglottisaspiration, sederingsgrad enligt Richmond Agitation Sedation Scale (RASS) samt gurgling med klorhexidinlösning. Datan analyserades i statistikprogrammet SPSS. Resultat: Deltagarna delades in i tvĂ„ grupper utifrĂ„n Ă„lder (grupp 1 ≀ 69 Ă„r, grupp 2 ≄ 70 Ă„r). MunvĂ„rd med klorhexidin var den Ă„tgĂ€rd som utfördes flest gĂ„nger per dygn med medianvĂ€rde fyra i bĂ„da Ă„ldersgrupperna. DĂ€refter följde kufftrycksmĂ€tning med en median pĂ„ tvĂ„ kontroller per dygn. MedianvĂ€rdet för höjd huvudĂ€nda var ett i bĂ„da grupperna. Tandborstning var den Ă„tgĂ€rd som utfördes minst antal gĂ„nger. Det var inga signifikanta skillnader mellan de olika Ă„ldersgrupperna vad gĂ€ller utförda omvĂ„rdnadsĂ„tgĂ€rder. Konklusion och kliniska implikationer: En rimlig bedömning Ă€r att kontinuerlig uppdatering betrĂ€ffande den senaste forskningen hos vĂ„rdpersonal samt revidering av PM kommer att ge bĂ€ttre vĂ„rdresultat, kortare vĂ„rdtider, mindre kostnader för samhĂ€llet och mindre vĂ„rdlidande. Resultatet pekar pĂ„ behov av antingen bĂ€ttre följsamhet till befintliga rekommendationer, eller noggrannare och tydligare dokumentation av utförda Ă„tgĂ€rder

    Inventing the Future: Barlow and Beyond

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    Inventing the future

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    Inventing the Future of Flight

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    Inventing The Future 2005 Planning Retreat

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    Foster an integrated, holistic approach to managing and stewarding public lands. Focus initially on externally funded cooperative conservation projects, research initiatives, and capital improvement projects. Attract projects that are local, regional, and national in scope

    They read in a Koolhaas »

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    Aline Girard a visitĂ© pour nous la bibliothĂšque publique de Seattle dans le cadre de la confĂ©rence de mi-mandat de la section des bibliothĂšques mĂ©tropolitaines de l’Ifla (ex-Intamel), qui a rĂ©uni 58 participants du 6 au 11 mai 2007 sur le thĂšme « The changing face of metropolitan libraries : Inventing the future, anchored in the past »

    Attributing scientific and technical progress: the case of holography

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    Holography, the three-dimensional imaging technology, was portrayed widely as a paradigm of progress during its decade of explosive expansion 1964–73, and during its subsequent consolidation for commercial and artistic uses up to the mid 1980s. An unusually seductive and prolific subject, holography successively spawned scientific insights, putative applications and new constituencies of practitioners and consumers. Waves of forecasts, associated with different sponsors and user communities, cast holography as a field on the verge of success—but with the dimensions of success repeatedly refashioned. This retargeting of the subject represented a degree of cynical marketeering, but was underpinned by implicit confidence in philosophical positivism and faith in technological progressivism. Each of its communities defined success in terms of expansion, and anticipated continual progressive increase. This paper discusses the contrasting definitions of progress in holography, and how they were fashioned in changing contexts. Focusing equally on reputed ‘failures’ of some aspects of the subject, it explores the varied attributes by which success and failure were linked with progress by different technical communities. This important case illuminates the peculiar post-World War II environment that melded the military, commercial and popular engagement with scientific and technological subjects, and the competing criteria by which they assessed the products of science

    Stonyfield Farm Founder Named 2015 Social Innovator of the Year at UNH

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