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Treatment of Acute Pulmonary Thromboembolism with Left Atrial Thrombus via Atrial Septal Defect - A case report- (심방중격결손을 통해 좌심방으로 유입되어 있는 혈전을 동반한 급성 폐동맥 혈전색전증의 치험)

  • 김시욱;최재성;유재현;임승평;이영;나명훈
    • Journal of Chest Surgery
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    • v.37 no.12
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    • pp.1010-1014
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    • 2004
  • Though acute pulmonary thromboembolism is usually managed medically with the use of thrombolytics or anticoagulants, an emergent life-saving surgery would be required. In a case of acute pulmonary thromboembolism with acute severe right heart failure and deferment of it could result in fatal outcomes in a short time. In addition, the mortality is raised considerably if it is combined with right heart thrombi. Despite paradoxical thromboembolism via patent foramen ovale was reported, few report might be presented, in which showed the thrombus in right atrium has traversed atrial septal defect into left atrium and left ventricle like this case as the evidence of paradoxical thromboembolism. We report a case of acute pulmonary thromboembolism with acute right heart failure arising from deep vein thrombosis, developed immediately after low anterior resection for colon cancer in a 63-year-old male, who was managed successfully by emergent thromboembolectomy with cardiopulmonary bypass.

A Study on the Paperless Waiting Order Count System for Green IT (Green IT를 위한 Paperless 순번대기표 시스템에 관한 연구)

  • Kang, Min-Sik
    • Journal of Digital Contents Society
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    • v.12 no.4
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    • pp.511-518
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    • 2011
  • One of the most important paradigms in society has recently been a set of efforts to prepare for the future and to protect the environment by saving carbon that occurs in everyday life as well as in the industry. In order to successfully deal with this new paradigm, Korean government has adopted and implemented various policies including the green certification, the development of green technologies and green growth. Many agencies and organizations in both public and private sectors have established plans about the carbon savings and performed a lot of research using IT technology. For example, attempts have been made in Korea to use as electronic documents instead of paper documents using these green IT and mobile devices. This paper proposes a 'Paperless' waiting order count system using QR code and mobile phone as an example of green IT for 'Low carbon and Green growth'.

EMERGENCY BLEEDING CONTROL BY RAPID ENTIRE OROPHARYNGEAL PACKING IN A PATIENT WITH ACTIVE OROPHARYNGEAL BLEEDING FOLLOWING BASAL SKULL FRACTURE: REPORT OF A CASE (뇌기저부 골절후 발생된 과도한 구인두 출혈의 구인두 전체 신속압박에 의한 응급지혈: 증례보고)

  • Mo, Dong-Yub;Yoo, Jae-Ha;Choi, Byung-Ho;Kim, Ha-Rang;Lee, Chun-Ui;Ryu, Mi-Heon
    • Maxillofacial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
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    • v.32 no.2
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    • pp.189-195
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    • 2010
  • Excessive oral and maxillofacial bleeding causes upper airway obstruction, bronchotracheal & gastric aspiration and hypovolemic shock. Therefore, the rapid & correct bleeding control is very important for life-saving in the medical emergency room. In spite of the bleeding control methods of the wound suture & direct pressure, the postoperative bleeding can be occurred, because of the presence of various bleeding disorders & postoperative delayed wound infections. The proper care of bleeding disorders & wound infections are very important for the control of the delayed postoperative rebleeding. In spite of these methods, active oral bleeding can be presented by the other causes of head injury. A rare but particularly dangerous sort of bleeding that may have an especial importance to the patient with severe basal skull fracture that damage large vessels and even the cavernous sinus. The occurrence of profuse nasal or oropharyngeal bleeding may arise from damage to the anterior and posterior ethmoidal vessels, but when mixed with brain tissue it is evidence of mortal damage. In this condition, rapid entire oropharyngeal packing is essential for the control of active oral bleeding. This is a case report of rapid rational bleeding control method by much amount of wet gauze packings, in a 44-years-old male patient with active oropharyngeal bleeding by basal skull fractures.

Performance Comparison of Modulation Schemes according to the Dimming Control in MIMO-VLC System (MIMO-VLC에서 디밍제어에 따른 변조방식들의 성능 비교)

  • Lee, Min-Jung;Lee, Byung-Jin;Ju, Sang-Lim;Kim, Yong-Won;Kim, Kyung-Seok
    • The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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    • v.14 no.4
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    • pp.63-69
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    • 2014
  • Visible light communication is a communication method using an LED's blinking(ON/OFF), it has a feature of light because of the limit of perception by the human's optic nerve. LED' dimming control used in the VLC system is important factor needed to provide energy saving and life benefits. With advances in VLC system, MIMO technology has received much attention in that it can be obtain channel capacity proportionate to the number of antenna. Therefore, in this paper, with RC method which is one of the MIMO style in VLC system, it is compared communication performance using RZ-OOK, VPPM, MPPM and OPPM. As a result of the simulation was run against this, MPPM works well in terms of Power requirement and OPPM works well in terms of Spectral efficiency and Bandwidth requirement, also it was confirmed that there is a significant impact on the communication performance of each modulation scheme according to the dimming.

Development Guidelines of Environmental planning Indicators for Environmentally friendly Urban and Architectural Planning (친환경적 도시건축계획을 위한 환경계획지표개발의 방향)

  • Chang, Dong-Min
    • KIEAE Journal
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    • v.1 no.2
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    • pp.5-12
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    • 2001
  • Through the harmony of natural and artificial systems a city is composed of, the ecology-oriented urban planning seeks for qualitative improvements of a city on which our life is based. To enhance the ecology-oriented urban planning, the followings are suggested by a comparative analysis of Korea with Germany regarding the development process, the instruments, and the establishment of indicators for the planning. Firstly, though our national land development plan is closely connected with B-plan, it has little to do with the natural environment. Moreover, the natural environment plan of the Ministry of Environment is almost impossible to carry out in terms of urban construction work. For this reason, the instrument for dealing with the development and environment plan systems together as well as the completion of the current plan system is needed for the ecologically acceptable urban development in the long term. Secondly, in order to realize what is mentioned above in the concrete it seems to be desirable for the system and the instrument to be devised at the extent of B-plan. The regulations of the plan should have strong legal binding force and practicality as well. The element of ecology-oriented urban planning are (1) degree of independence and appropriate density, (2) conservation of natural elements such as soil, water, animals and plants etc., (3) energy saving in land use, (4) activation of B-plan and inducement of active participation of residents. Thirdly, it will be useful to develop various kinds of indicators for the environment plan provided in advance so that the ecology-oriented urban developments may be under control. It also should be taken into consideration that the indicators are supposed to be comprehensive, representative, and practical enough to make the most of at the early stage of drawing up a plan. The kinds of indicators which can be used in the ecology-oriented urban development include (1) soil, (2) water, (3) vegetation and plants, (4) animals, (5) climate, and (6) transportation.

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Insulation Level Assessment on the Military Residential Facilities Considering the Investment Payback Period (투자회수기간을 고려한 군 주거시설의 단열수준 산정 연구)

  • Park, Young Jun;Meang, Joon Ho;Kim, Taehui;Kim, Sung Joong;Lee, Seung-Min;Son, Kiyoung
    • KIEAE Journal
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    • v.15 no.6
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    • pp.57-62
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    • 2015
  • Purpose: This study, which is based on the investment payback periods, aims to suggest the proper insulation level which can be adapted to the Defense Military Facility Criteria regarding the military residential condominiums. For the energy performance simulation, it is required to collect the residential data regarding the military condominiums and climatic data concerning the regions they belongs to. The estimates through energy performance simulation are the regional heating loads and the heating transmission coefficients of building components. Method: With the heating loads, the annual heating cost saving per square meters is assessed. With the heating transmission coefficients of building components, the additional insulation installment cost per square meters is evaluated. With two outcomes, one as an annual value and the other as a present value, the investment payback period is calculated. Result: In result, it could be concluded that 55~70% insulation ratio can lead a superior residental environments as well as be contributed to the national policy associated with zero-energy buildings because the estimated investment payback period is shorter than the life span of the military residental condominiums. This upshot can be used as a foundation to enactment the Defense Military Facility Criteria associated with military residential condominiums.

A Study on the Measures for Safety Management at the Coastal Sea Area in Korea (국내 연안해역 안전관리 방안에 관한 연구)

  • Chang, In-Shik
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Marine Environment & Safety
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    • v.15 no.4
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    • pp.393-399
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    • 2009
  • Most of marine casualties occur at the coastal sea areas where maritime traffics are heavy and on the coastal regions such as the beaches and breakwaters, etc. where a lot of people visit. Recently, tile risk of casualties along the coasts has been on the increase due to the revitalization of marine leisure activities in Korea. However, the measures to prevent accidents along the coasts have not kept step with increasing rate of the accidents and the safety management system has not been organized. Recent marine casualties were analyzed to propose alternative measures for safety management to minimize marine casualties along the coasts. Comprehensive safety system and networks are necessary to be established and the integration and unification of the relevant authorities in charge should be accomplished in Korea. In rapid response to marine casualties, the search and rescue system should be established for the systematic and effective life-saving operations in Korean coastal areas.

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Development of Computer Based Ultrasonic Flaw Detector for Nondestructive Testing (컴퓨터 내장형 비파괴검사용 초음파탐상기 개발)

  • Lee, Weon-Heum;Kim, J.K.;Kim, Y.R.;Choi, K.S.;Kim, S.H.;Lee, S.H.
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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    • v.17 no.2
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    • pp.108-113
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    • 1997
  • Ultrasonic testing is one of the most widely used method of nondestructive testing for pre-service inspection(PSI) & in-service inspection(ISI) in structures of bridges, power plants, chemical plants & heavy industrial fields. It is very important to estimate safety, life, quality of structures. Also, a lot of research for quantities evaluation & analyses inspection data is proceeding. But traditional portable ultrasonic flaw detector had been following disadvantages. 1) Analog ultrasonic flaw detector decreased credibility of ultrasonic test, because it is impossible for saving data & digital signal processing. 2) Stand-alone digital ultrasonic flaw detector cannot effectively evaluate received signals because of lack of its storage memory. To overcome this shortcoming, we develop the computer based ultrasonic flaw detector for nondestructive testing. It can store the received signal and effectively evaluate the signal, and then enhance the reliability of the testing results.

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Study on Expression Characteristic of Fashion Bag Products of Up-cycle Brand (업사이클 브랜드 패션가방제품의 표현 특성 연구)

  • Park, Hae-In;Kwak, Tai-Gi
    • Journal of the Korea Fashion and Costume Design Association
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    • v.19 no.2
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    • pp.1-14
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    • 2017
  • The consumption trend of fashion in modern industrial society is developing from the rapid changes, and the lifespan of fashion products becomes shorter due to the various industrial wastes. Due to the attitude change caused by the ethical consumption consciousness and environment awareness, the up-cycle fashion products got to receive attention, and it is in the limelight as a new trend to realize the sustainable fashion products in the domestic and foreign fashion. The purpose of this study lies in drawing the expression characteristics by investigating and analyzing the cases of each type on the fashion bag products of up-cycle brand, and contributing to the diversification of product family fitting to the characteristics of fashion bag product of up-cycle brand, systematic strategies of up-cycle fashion products, and activation of up-cycle fashion market. In research methods, the theatrical researches were conducted centered the relevant domestic literature materials, preceding papers, etc., which ran paralleled with the actual case analysis study. Through the preceding research and websites related to selected products, websites of up-cycle companies, relevant books, related articles, etc., the expression characteristics of up-cycle fashion bag products were drawn. The results of this study are as follows: First, as it has the feature of historicality, the designs can be created by containing the designer's story, story of materials, and consumer's story. Second, since it has the characteristic of sustainability, the application of manufacturing process and materials, extension of product life, conversion of original material's function, etc. can be sustainable. Third, as it's a trait of scarcity, all products may be produced by hand, and it can have the specialty which the original materials have. Fourth, since it has an eco-friendly trait, even while saving the original materials, the aesthetic needs could be met according to the consumers' continuous demand.

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Successful Opening of Ductus Arteriosus with Milrinone in a Newborn with Tetralogy of Fallot and Pulmonary Atresia

  • Won, Chong-Bock;Kim, Min-Young;Choi, Duk-Young;Cho, Hye-Jung;Shim, So-Yeon;Son, Dong-Woo
    • Neonatal Medicine
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    • v.18 no.2
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    • pp.365-369
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    • 2011
  • Tetralogy of Fallot (TOF) assumes its' most severe form when accompanied by pulmonary atresia (PA). Preserving the patent ductus arteriosus to maintain pulmonary blood flow is life-saving for patients with this congenital heart disease. Milrinone, a selective phosphodiesterase III inhibitor, is a potent vasodilator. Here, we report the successful use of milrinone for a newborn infant with TOF and PA for keeping the ductus arteriosus open and thereby maintaining pulmonary circulation. Milrinone is a useful drug because of its inotropic, lusitropic, and pulmonary vasodilating effects, in addition to its ability to keep the ductus arteriosus open and its relatively mild side-effects. Case series and comparative studies will be needed in the future to verify the effectiveness of this drug.