Medical factors

Elizabeth Lloyd No, these are all non-contagion related medial situations. I mean, these are all countries in which contagion is not a significant medical factor. 

In a review it has been suggested that hepatotoxicity with pioglitazone and rosiglitazone may not be causal but due to confounding medical factors (117). For example, hepatotoxicity has been attributed to rosiglitazone, secondary to cardiac failure (118). 

National Transportation Safety Board. Fatigue, alcohol, other drags, and medical factors in fatal-to-the-driver heavy truck crashes. Safety Study NTSB/SS-90/01 Washington, DC NTSB, 1990. 

Detailed history and physical examination to exclude the presence of medical factors that may indicate a susceptibility of the individual to adverse effects, including precipitation of incipient disease(s), resulting from pesticide overexposure. This should pay particular attention to hepatorenal, respiratory, peripheral and central nervous, visual, cutaneous, and cardiovascular systems. This should include a determination of a history of allergies or asthma that could be aggravated by the anti-ChE or common formulation ingredients... 

The results of the tests must be made available to the employer, employee, and others (such as the employee s physician) upon the employee s written authorization. The physician must provide a written opinion including the results of the examination, whether the examination revealed any conditions that the employee s occupational exposure would aggravate, and whether there should be any restrictions placed on the employee or modification to the employee s duties to reduce exposure. The physician must also state that he has discussed the results of the examinations with the employee and any follow-up actions that should ensue. If there are any extraneous medical factors not pertinent to the work-related activities of the employee discovered in the course of the examination, the employee has the right to expect complete confidentiahty of this information. The medical records must be maintained, according to the provisions of 29 CER 1910.20, by the employer for the duration of the employee s employment plus 30 years. Much of the supporting data records, such as exposure information, must be kept for a similar period. 

Medical factors conducive to work-related ill health and... 

Some individual medical factors may lead to increased work-related ill health, disability... 

Ophthalmic examination was performed on Days 7, 21, 42 and 63. At each presentation the following ocular assessments were documented Condition and disorders of visual function, lids, third eyelid, STT, conjunctiva, cornea (including pachymetry of corneal thickness) and the response to therapy was evaluated by both, the investigator and the client. In addition any adverse reaction or complicating medical factors were recorded individually. 

Decisions will be needed to resolve conflicting information sources and arrive at a concise description of the medical factors, user needs, and purpose(s) to be addressed by the medical device. Following these decisions, it is necessary to define, from a black box perspective, the requirements of the medical device in measurable engineering terms. The actual requirements in the DIR will fall into two broad categories the standards that the product shall meet such as sterility, biocompatibility, International electrical standards and American National Standards Institute (ANSI), etc., and those specific to the medical device (i.e., functional, performance, and interface requirements). 

In this chapter we will consider some of the medical factors that may be significant for assessing any health risks caused by an employee s exposure to specific hazards used in biomedical research. We will also examine certain medical conditions that predispose an individual to additional risk if he or she is engaged in research involving biohazardous agents. 

A fiequently overlooked medical factor that may tend to limit the research activities of many laboratory workers is the existence of a history of severe atopic allergies, such as hay fever and asthma. Allergic reactions are a normal result of heightened activity of the immune system of the individual, and they may be classified into the four following types of... 

Each of the outcome measures proved to have an individual profile of confounding. The WISC was mainly influenced by social factors, but not by medical factors, while 3% of the variance in the Bender was explained by medical factors. Within the group of social factors the profile also varied according to the measure. Thus, WISC was mostly influenced by mother s age, SES and birth order, whereas the Bender test was mostly influenced by MES and sex of the child. 

The medical factors are related to the health impact of the sensor. Questions such as Is it biocompatible , TXies it trigger any immunologic response , Is it safe for the subject , among others, enable the assessment of the sensor performance in this criterion. 

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