Extract: Serial studies of arterial and alveolar oxygen, carbon dioxide, and nitrogen tensions, arterial pH, and ratios of dead space: tidal volume were made in 24 nondistressed premature infants. By ...

When you breathe, a certain fraction of your air enters the lungs and blood flows through the capillaries. When this ratio is above or below 0.8, you may have ventilation/perfusion (V/Q) mismatch. A V ...

The time to initiate intravenous thrombolysis for acute ischemic stroke is generally limited to within 4.5 hours after the onset of symptoms. Some trials have suggested that the treatment window may ...