Disease relevance of Medical Assistance

• Formate analysis is considered important in any patient with suspected methanol poisoning who presents for medical assistance with metabolic acidosis [1].

High impact information on Medical Assistance

• Socioeconomic status, education, marital status, and medical assistance of the parent is similarly distributed between lactose absorbers and malabsorbers [2].
• GOLD stage 0 was characterised by the presence of the same risk factors as COPD and by the same high demand for medical assistance [3].
• MEASUREMENTS: Pulmonary function data, gas exchange, use of hospital resources (emergency department visits, admissions, and hospital stay) and the cost of medical assistance were investigated in both groups before and after 1 year of study [4].
• OBJECTIVE: To determine the incidence and type of requests for medical assistance and the treatment required in 21 sports at the 1994 Star of the North Summer Games and to develop a plan, based on these findings, for efficient allocation of medical supplies and staff [5].
• BACKGROUND: Patients with varicose veins seek medical assistance for many reasons, including esthetic ones [6].

Anatomical context of Medical Assistance

• RESULTS: A 62-year-old Filipino man with a history of incompletely treated papillary thyroid cancer sought medical assistance in the emergency department because of weakness of the right upper extremity [7].

Associations of Medical Assistance with chemical compounds

• Detection of tetrahydrocannabinol and cocaine was more common in newborns of women of color, those receiving medical assistance, and those over age 23 years [8].
• The Centre for Reproductive Medicine considered it morally justified to give medical assistance to couples in need of an HLA matched sibling [9].
• In a study of patients attending a methadone maintenance clinic in South London, 66 of 114 (58%) had previously attempted to detoxify themselves from opiates without medical assistance [10].
• The patient was instructed to avoid all wheat containing foods and to carry a kit containing an epinephrine pre-loaded syringe and an antihistamine tablet to be used in the event of inadvertant consumption with an instruction to seek medical assistance as soon as possible [11].
• Update: the Maryland Medical Assistance Oxygen and Related Respiratory Equipment Program [12].

Gene context of Medical Assistance

• Health complaints, remedies and medical assistance in a peri-urban area [13].
• A 63-year-old woman with rheumatoid arthritis sought medical assistance for dull and chronic pain in her left ear two and half years after her initial diagnostic examination [14].
• Early post-tsunami disaster medical assistance to Banda Aceh: a personal account [15].
• The results indicated that the continuers were at admission older, White, not dependent on medical assistance, previously treated, using less heroin, and smoking less marijuana than the noncontinuers [16].
• Recently I participated in one large effort (USNS MERCY), commanded a second (MED EL, JTF-Bravo, Honduras), was "neighbor" and visitor to a third (Medical Assistance Team in El Salvador), and had staff level interface with others (Ahuas Tara 88, Fuertes Caminos 88, and Special Operating Forces Humanitarian Assistance Team, all in Honduras) [17].

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of Medical Assistance

• After her intense battle for the decriminalization of assisted suicide in the Supreme Court of Canada, Sue Rodriguez committed suicide with medical assistance in 1994 [18].

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