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Mean arterial pressure above 65 mmHg is recommended for critically ill hypotensive patients whereas they do not benefit from supranormal cardiac output values. In this study we investigated if the increase of mean arterial pressure after volume expansion could be predicted by cardiovascular and renal variables. This is a relevant topic because unnecessary positive fluid balance increases mortality, organ dysfunction and Intensive Care Unit length of stay.
Thirty-six hypotensive patients (mean arterial pressure < 65 mmH) received a fluid challenge with hydroxyethyl starch. Patients were excluded if they had active bleeding and/or required changes in vasoactive agents infusion rate in the previous 30 minutes. Responders were defined by the increase of mean arterial pressure value to over 65 mmHg or by more than 20% with respect to the value recorded before fluid challenge. Measurements were performed before and at one hour after the end of fluid challenge.
Twenty-two patients (61%) increased arterial pressure after volume expansion. Baseline heart rate, arterial pressure, central venous pressure, central venous saturation, central venous to arterial PCO2 difference, lactate, urinary output, fractional excretion of sodium and urinary sodium/potassium ratio were similar between responder and non-responder. Only 7 out of 36 patients had valuable dynamic indices and then we excluded them from analysis. When the variables were tested as predictors of responders, they showed values of areas under the ROC curve ranging between 0.502 and 0.604. Logistic regression did not reveal any association between variables and responder definition.
Fluid challenge did not improve arterial pressure in about one third of hypotensive critically ill patients. Cardiovascular and renal variables did not enable us to predict the individual response to volume administration.
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ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT00721604.
Fluid administration is the first recommended approach to increase arterial blood pressure in critically ill hypotensive patients [1-3]. If early aggressive fluid resuscitation is useful at the beginning of care in injured and septic patients [3,4], there is evidence that unnecessary fluid administration and positive fluid balance increase mortality, organ dysfunction and Intensive Care Unit length of stay when the whole period of care is considered [5-8]. To avoid fluid overload it is important to identify beforehand the patients for whom volume expansion would increase arterial pressure and those patients who do not benefit from fluid administration.
Previous studies have investigated the possibility of predicting fluid responsiveness through assessing increases in cardiac output after fluid challenge. Dynamic indices, in particular pulse pressure variation, assessed fluid responsiveness better than static indices, such as central venous pressure or pulmonary capillary wedge pressure [9-12]. Fluid responsiveness does not help to predict if patients actually increase arterial pressure after volume expansion but it identifies patients who increase their cardiac output. Moreover it should be considered that fluid responsiveness was mainly studied in critically ill patients with normal-to-high cardiac output [9-12] and any further increase in cardiac output does not improve prognosis in such patients [13,14].
In this study we investigated if the increase of arterial pressure after volume expansion could be predicted by cardiovascular and renal variables in hypotensive critically ill patients.
The protocol was approved by the institutional ethical committee (Comitato Etico delle Istituzioni Ospedaliere Cattoliche) and written consent was obtained by the patients or their next of kin if the patients themselves were not competent. Written consent was not be required in cases where this would delay urgent fluid challenge.
We studied 36 consecutive patients admitted to the Intensive Care Unit of Poliambulanza Foundation Hospital. Patients were recruited if they met the following criteria: mean arterial pressure lower than 65 mmHg, age over 18 years and presence of both central venous and arterial catheters. Excluded were unstable patients and patients during the early resuscitation phase suffering from hypovolemic shock or septic shock/severe sepsis. Accordingly patients were excluded if they had active bleeding and/or required changes in vasoactive agents infusion rate in the previous 30 minutes. Additional exclusion criteria were: central venous pressure higher than 16 mmHg, pulmonary congestion or edema, impending risk of death, or plasma hemoglobin lower than 8 g.dl-1.
Measurements and calculations
Electrocardiography, mean arterial pressure, central venous pressure, pulse oximetry, were continuously monitored (Datex-Engstrom CS/3 Critical Care Monitor, Datex-Engstrom Division, Instrumentarium Corp., Helsinki, Finland). Values of heart rate, mean arterial pressure and central venous pressure (sampled every ten seconds), and waveforms of arterial pressure, central venous pressure and pulse oximetry plethysmography (sampling rate 100 Hz) were recorded for three minutes immediately before and at one hour after the end of fluid challenge and then converted to ASCII files (Datex-Ohmeda S/5 Collect, Datex-Ohmeda Division, Instrumentarium Corp., Helsinki, Finland). The definitive values of heart rate, mean arterial pressure and central venous pressure were the mean values of recorded data and were used for analysis. Data below the 10th centile or above the 90th centile were not included in mean calculation. Pulse pressure variation and pulse plethysmographic variation were calculated only in patients without both arrhythmias and spontaneous respiratory activity as evaluated by airway and flow waveforms. Calculations were performed as previously described [9,10,15].
Samples of arterial blood, central venous blood and urine were simultaneously collected just before and at one hour after the end of the fluid challenge. Central venous saturation, central venous to arterial CO2 partial pressure difference (Δv-aPCO2), arterial blood lactate, plasmatic and urinary creatinine, plasmatic and urinary sodium, urinary potassium and last hour urinary output were measured. Fractional excretion of sodium (FENa) was calculated as: [16].
A maximum of two consecutive fluid challenges was planned. After baseline measurements had been made, patients received a first fluid challenge that was immediately followed by a second fluid challenge, provided that central venous pressure was again lower than 16 mmHg and mean arterial pressure did not exceed 75 mmHg. Both fluid challenges were carried out with 7 ml.kg-1 of 6% hydroxyethyl starch (Voluven, Fresenius Kabi Italia S.r.l., Isola della Scala, Italy) over 30 minutes. Hydroxyethyl starch infusion was stopped if one of the following conditions lasted more than 3 consecutive minutes: central venous pressure increased of more than 20% with respect to the basal value and with a value greater than 16 mmHg; mean arterial pressure greater than 75 mmHg; decrease of pulse oximetry saturation greater than 5%.
The goal of the fluid challenge was to restore mean arterial pressure value to over 65 mmHg or to increase it by more than 20% with respect to the value recorded before fluid challenge. The outcome was evaluated at one hour after the end of hydroxyethyl starch infusion. These patients were defined as responders to fluid challenge.
Throughout the protocol, the ventilator setting and vasoactive drug infusion were not changed. Patients who needed to increase vasoactive drug infusion before the end of the protocol were considered as non-responders.
Study outcome
The main study outcome was to evaluate the accuracy of baseline physiological variables to identify responders to fluid challenge. The planned variables to test were central venous pressure, Δv-aPCO2, arterial lactate, FENa, urinary sodium/potassium ratio, pulse pressure variation, plethysmographic pulse variation.
Data are shown as mean ± sd, median (1-3 quartiles) or count (percentage) as appropriate. Differences in frequency were analyzed by the Fisher exact test. Values obtained before and after fluid challenge were compared by a paired t test or paired Wilcoxon test. Differences between responders and non-responders were evaluated by a t test or Wilcoxon test. Diagnostic performance was firstly evaluated by area under the ROC curve. Accuracy, positive and negative predictive value, sensitivity and specificity were calculated for variables which had an area of greater than 0.8 under the ROC curve. Comparisons between areas under ROC curve were performed only if their values were greater than 0.8. In order to identify variables associated with responders status, we performed univariate analysis and variables with p value lower than 0.1 were included as covariates in multiple logistic regression to estimate adjusted OR with their 95% CI. Statistical analyses were performed using R statistical software, version 2.14.0, with the package pROC (R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna, Austria, http://www.R-project.org webcite).
Patient characteristics are shown in Table 1. All patients had mean arterial pressure lower than 65 mmHg before fluid challenge as set out in the inclusion criteria. All patients completed the first fluid challenge but seven out of 36 patients (19%) met the criteria to stop the second fluid challenge. Four patients required the commencement of vasoactive drug agent infusion or an increased infusion rate immediately after the end of fluid challenge. Individual changes in arterial pressure are shown in Figure 1.
Table 1. Patients characteristics
Figure 1. Individual changes in mean arterial pressure before and after fluid challenge.
Before fluid challenges central venous pressure, central venous saturation and arterial lactate were available in all study patients (100%); Δv-aPCO2 and FENa were obtained in 35 out of 36 patients (97%); urinary sodium/potassium ratio was obtained for 31 patients (86%). Each of these variables was available more frequently than dynamic indices, which were usable in 7 out of 36 patients (19%) (p < 0.001). Dynamic indices were excluded from any further analysis because of their low availability.
Twenty-two out of 36 patients (61%) were responders to fluid challenge. The values of variables collected before and at one hour after fluid challenge are shown in Table 2. Fluid challenge increased mean arterial pressure and urinary output but does not central venous saturation. Central venous pressure was increased by fluid challenge, while the other cardiovascular and renal variables were not. The values of the variables obtained before fluid challenge were similar in responders and non-responders.
Table 2. Cardiovascular, urinary and metabolic variables
When the variables in Table 2 were tested as predictors of the effect of fluid challenge, they showed values of areas under the ROC curve ranging between 0.502 and 0.604. Finally, logistic regression did not reveal any association between variables and responder definition (Table 3).
Table 3. Predictive value and association between outcome (responder) and study variables
This study aimed to identify predictors regarding the increase of arterial pressure after volume expansion. Fluid challenge was ineffective in about one third of patients and the cardiovascular and renal variables analyzed in this study did not allow any kind of prediction regarding the increase of arterial pressure.
Study results
We assessed fluid responsiveness from a clinical instead of physiological point of view. Fluid administration is traditionally considered as effective if it increases cardiac output. This has a pathophysiological rationale and dynamic indices appear quite reliable predictors with this approach [11,12]. Nevertheless a frequent clinical reason for fluid administration is hypotension whereas cardiac output increase is not required in most of intensive care patients [13,14]. In our study dynamic indices were available for prediction only in 19% of the population. This finding was explained by the two main limitations of dynamic indices assessment, namely, the absence of both spontaneous respiratory activity and arrhythmias [9-11]. These requirements are frequently violated in critically ill patients. Arrhythmias have been reported in 15% of patients in Intensive Care Unit [17] and early resumption of some spontaneous respiratory activity is recommended to facilitate weaning from mechanical ventilation and to prevent ventilation-induced diaphragmatic dysfunction [18,19]. We did not consider the use of low tidal volume ventilation as exclusion criteria for use of dynamic indices. Low tidal volume ventilation is recommended during acute lung injury [3] but this ventilatory approach reduces the accuracy of fluid responsiveness prediction by dynamic indices [15,20,21]. If we considered even low tidal volume ventilation as exclusion criteria for dynamic indices evaluation, then dynamic indices would have been available in only 2 out of 36 patients (6%). Therefore dynamic indices could be a useful resource in non-critically ill patients, for example in perioperative settings. Indeed, spontaneous respiratory activity and low tidal volume ventilation are not frequently used during general anesthesia. Moreover, dynamic indices are a good predictor of fluid responsiveness evaluated by cardiac index increase, and supranormal values of cardiac index and oxygen delivery are also associated with better outcomes in high risk patients undergoing major surgery [22].
When we tried to predict the effect of fluid challenge, we obtained frustrating results. Before fluid challenge all variables were similar between responders and non-responders. Moreover, study variables displayed very low accuracy in identifying responders to fluid challenge, with their areas under ROC curves ranging from 0.502 to 0.604. Finally, even logistic regression did not identify any variables associated with responder status. These results further discourage the use of central venous pressure to drive fluid administration in hypotensive patients.
Most variables tested in this study depends mainly on pressure and flow. Therefore our results suggest that physiological variables depending on flow and pressure could not accurately predict arterial pressure changes after fluid administration. For this purpose it appears more appropriate an approach based on the arterial elastance evaluation as calculated by ratio between pulse pressure variation and stroke volume variation [23].
In previous studies fluid challenge increased cardiac output or stroke volume in 40-64% of patients [9,10,15,20,21] and similarly, in our study, fluid challenge worked in 61% of the patients. At least one in every three hypotensive patients does not show any improvement after fluid challenge. On the contrary, inappropriate fluid administration negatively impacts on several relevant outcomes [5-8]. Considering the impossibility of predicting the effect of volume expansion on arterial pressure and the high rate of non-responders, cardiac output monitoring or estimation could help to guide therapy in hypotensive patients whose arterial pressure does not increase after fluid challenge or who are at risk of fluid overload.
The results of this study strongly depended on fluid challenge technique used, the timing of outcome evaluation, study outcome, patient and variable selection.
Fluid challenge
We chose to administer maximal fluid challenge to avoid any possibility of fluid underresuscitation. Each fluid challenge was scheduled to administer about 500 ml over 30 minutes for patients of 70 kg in weight [3,24]. Because some patients could require larger volumes [3], we decided to repeat the fluid challenge provided that there were no criteria for stopping fluid administration. The total amount of hydroxyethyl starch remained largely below the safety threshold dose even when both fluid challenges were carried out [25].
Previous studies on fluid responsiveness have evaluated the outcome either at the end of volume infusion [9,15,20,21] or at 30 minutes after it [10]. We performed outcome measurements at 1 hour after the end of fluid challenge to avoid misclassification of transient effects as clinically relevant effects. At this time, the volume effect of hydroxyethyl starch was fully maintained [25]. Moreover timing of measurement of effect of volume expansion on cardiac output and arterial pressure could strongly influence results. In fact changes of cardiac output and arterial pressure after fluid challenge have different time course. In preload-dependent patients cardiac output can initially increase by a large extent despite minimal arterial pressure increase because of decrease in systemic vascular resistance. Then cardiac output returns to baseline value and arterial pressure increases for the combined effect of an increase of venous capacitance associated to disappearance of initial decrease in systemic vascular resistance. This dynamic process begins immediately after the fluid challenge and it is complete in few hours. In particular the evaluation of fluid responsiveness should be delayed at least 40 minutes after the fluid challenge to allow the first acute stabilization of cardiac output and arterial pressure [26].
Fluid administration should follow different approaches in the first hours of resuscitation and after the stabilization of the patients [3,4,27]. If, in the first hours, more fluid is better than less [4], liberal fluid administration should be avoided in the following phases [5-8]. We aimed to study only stable patients after the start phase of fluid resuscitation. We avoided selecting patients with specific clinical diagnosis because they are often extremely heterogeneous from a pathophysiologic point of view. For example, patients with septic shock/severe sepsis are probably the most studied population of critically ill hypotensive patients. All these patients share an infection-related hypotension but they should be considered a heterogeneous population when they are enrolled in a physiological study. It is well recognized that they could have low or normal or high cardiac preload associated with low or normal or high cardiac output [3]. Therefore we chose to increase the external validity of the study both avoiding apparent homogeneity and including patients independently of cardiac output measurement, cardiac rhythms and modality of ventilation. This study should be considered as a pilot trial and the sample size was considered convenient for this purpose. Nevertheless these preliminary data have shown that predictors were much too weak for a successful prediction even in much more patients.
Study outcome
The study goal was to improve arterial pressure not cardiac output because the indication for fluid challenge was hypotension. We defined as responder those patients whose mean arterial pressure reached values higher than 65 mmHg [1-3] or increased by more than 20%. In this manner we included among the responder group those patients who showed large arterial pressure increases but who did not reach the 65 mmHg threshold because they had started with very low basal arterial pressure values.
We chose only variables that were reliable and available in most of the critically ill patients and were related to tissue perfusion or recommended by guidelines on fluid administration in hypotensive patients [3,12,15,16,28-30]. Measurement of cardiac output could give additional useful information. Nevertheless in daily practice this information is suitable only in selected patients: consequently the external validity of the study would be strongly reduced if patient enrollment would be limited to those with cardiac output monitoring. Moreover we analyzed the urinary sodium/potassium ratio because it is sometimes used in clinical practice despite a lack of evidence to support it. We cannot exclude the possibility that analyzing different variables could enable the reliable prediction of the effect of fluid challenge.
Fluid challenge did not improve arterial pressure in about one third of hypotensive critically ill patients. Cardiovascular and renal variables did not enable us to predict the individual response to volume administration.
FENa: Fractional excretion of sodium; ROC: Receiver operating characteristic; Δv-aPCO2: Central venous to arterial CO2 partial pressure difference.
Competing interests
The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
Authors' contributions
GN conceived of the study, participated in its design, conducted the study, performed statistical analysis and wrote the manuscript. AR participated in the design of the study and conducted the study. CRM analyzed the data. ADM helped to conduct the study. PF helped to conduct the study. MB helped to conduct the study. FdG participated in the design of the study, helped to conduct the study and analyzed the data. AB participated in the design of the study. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
We acknowledge Poliambulanza Foundation to have provided all the materials and the financial support.
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Generally, good programming is considered to be the measured application of an art form, craft or discipline, with the objective of producing a competent and evolving business solution. In traditional environments, computer programming is a practice that has multiple phases, such as designing, developing, testing, debugging and maintaining application code. We programmers use programming languages like C, C++, C#, Java, Python and Smalltalk to create business applications. The process of writing code often requires proficiency in many diverse subjects, including knowledge of the application domain, runtime environment, specific algorithms, programming languages and proper logic.
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In addition, developing and deploying applications is a complex, expensive and time-consuming task. Business applications require hardware resources, operating systems, databases, middleware, Web servers and other software. Once the technology stack and hardware resources are available, a team of developers needs to navigate frameworks, such as J2EE and .NET, for development. A dedicated team of network, database and IT management experts keeps resources and applications available.
Inevitably, business requirements will require changes in the application, which results in a lengthy development, testing and re-deployment cycle. Furthermore, large organizations need specialized facilities to house their data centers and a team to maintain them. A gigantic amount of electricity is used to power the servers as well as to keep them cool.
If you think the complexities end here, then wait. A failover site holds significant importance to mirror the data center so that information and resources can be replicated in case of disaster. Applications built with these complexities are difficult to scale for usage spike demands, fragile to update, and difficult to make mobile and social as business needs change.
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Modern programming has changed in a different manner due to the explosion of devices. Expanding data and new business requirements need different approaches from the previous era. Considering either the traditional approach or modern approach, business applications must satisfy some fundamental properties, such as automation, reliability, robustness, performance and availability. Unfortunately, even in modern times, automated build and test environments don't exist in many organizations, and best practices are not applied everywhere in the software development life cycle.
It is important to understand that an application's reliability depends on the accuracy of algorithms, fewer programming mistakes, the implementation of security best practices, and avoiding logic errors, such as division by zero. Anticipating errors, such as incorrect or compromised data and unavailability of resources, increases robustness. How well application developers and IT teams manage robustness holds more significance in achieving the application's objectives. Efficiency, performance, maintainability, portability and availability of an application are equally important in modern environments. Cloud computing is a revolutionary approach that provides a ray of hope for organizations dealing with these modern challenges.
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This romantic, quaint, standalone cottage is one in a 20 unit condominium village across the street from the southern end of Long Sands Beach near the intersection of Long Sands Road and York Street. Although it is just across from the beach, it's not waterfront as there are other cottages in the area. But you can't beat the location!! It's nicely furnished and will appeal to the romantic couple, a couple of friends, or couple with a child. Unfortunately, it cannot accomodate any party larger.
We rent by the week only from Memorial Day thru Labor Day, and ask for a security deposit & rental agreement (see rental rates below)
It has been updated over the years and has:
* a remodeled galley kitchen
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* a double bed, large windows and ceiling fan
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When you create a new database application, the background picture of Operation Panel and database icon are given by default. You can change both of them for the whole database, or just for a specific form of the database. In the following sections, we'll explain how to do it.
Click "Design" in Menu Bar. Now you are in "Designing Ragic Applications" page. Find the application you want to modify. Hover your mouse to the name of the application and click "Style" at the drop-down box if you want the style change for the whole database. Or you can just click the "Style" link of any form to change the style for the form only.
In the Style Setting page you can see it has three major parts. The upper two parts are for Operation Panel design, and the bottom part is for the setting of database icon.
There are dozens of pictures Ragic Builder provides for you to choose from. You can click any picture and see how it looks in operation Panel right away, as the figure below shows. You can also upload your own picture if you can't find any suitable one in Ragic Builder.
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From Editing Descriptions, you might already know that you can add descriptions to your forms. But barely adding descriptions next to the fields might not be enough because sometimes we would like to make those plain descriptions more obvious to attract our users. Therefore, Ragic Builder provides users with a Desc Style tool for customizing the look and feel of the descriptions.
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The U.S. Supreme Court has confirmed that fee owners of western lands burdened by certain now-abandoned railroad easements granted by the government in the nineteenth century also own the land underlying those railroad easements. In Marvin M. Brandt Revocable Trust v. United States, the Government claimed that it, and not the current fee owner, owned the reversionary interests for the railroad easements, and that it received title when the railroad abandoned any easement granted under the 1875 Railroad Act. Both the trial court and the Tenth Circuit agreed when this case was before them. The decision potentially affected thousands of miles of now-abandoned railroad easements in the West.
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THE BUZZ: Pre-orders for the limited edition of Gears of War 3 have sold out on Amazon's website. READ MORE
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THE BUZZ: Some new footage from the Assassin's Creed Revelations Beta has appeared online showing off a new game mode known as "Easy Deathmatch". READ MORE
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According to a poster found in a Japanese gaming store, the Xbox 360 version of Battlefield 3 will be on 2 discs. READ MORE
RUMOR: Resident Evil 6 To Appear At Tokyo Game Show 2011
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We don't vaccinate the kids, but I don't know a whole lot about pet vaccines. Are they all necessary? I was thinking we'd try to get away with the bare minimum, but I'm not sure what that bare minimum is...
None whatsoever, like every other member of my family. How minimal do you want to go? By law the only vaccination required is rabies. If you are afraid of other diseases, then search Dr Dodd's vaccine protocol and you will come up the schedule many "alternative" vets use.
Some anti-vax info (pro-vax information is plentiful)
The Hayward Study, this is a vaxed vs unvaxed study in dogs (Great Danes and Beagles), every single one of the vaccinated dogs were shown to have autoantibodies.
How Vaccines Affect Both Socialization and Behavior in Dogs
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The Big Scam - Rabies vaccination by Dr John Fudens DVM
Here is an interesting article on case studies of humans damaged by the rabies vaccination and how homeopathy cured the mental health effects of the vaccine. Our dogs are subjected to this vaccine by law at best every three years, but some states still require annual rabies vaccination.
If you ever want to board your dog, chances are they will require "everything." Our dog got everything when we adopted except bordatella, which we are going to give him since we board him. If your dog is going to have any interaction with any other dogs - I'd actually recommend them. They get into some nasty stuff. I've seen unvaxed dogs die of distemper, parvo, rabies, etc. Not fun, and my vaxed dog is socialized wonderfully - that's more on the human's part to deal with and bad socialization is due to lack of exposure.
We vax every 3 years, instead of 1 year unless the license requires it.
Of course, this is just my opinion, feel free to disregard. I will read the pp's articles now :)
For those that do need to board their dogs and don't wish to vaccinate or fully vaccinate, there are ways around it but I just don't wish to go into on this board. Joining a yahoo group like jstsayno2vaccs and truthaboutvaccines (TAV) will give you the information you need.
The minimum would be the 3 year rabies vaccine. If you do not do the rabies vax,and there are issues with animal control you will be fined and the dog may be boarded in some cases of a rabies scare.You will pay for that too.
So I've done some research and called our local vet's office, and I've decided I'd like to do parvo, distemper and (later) rabies. The clinic that we're going to use offers parvo and distemper separately...or I can opt for a 3-in-one...parvo, distemper, and some other virus (I think adenovirus?)
Anyway, I'm wondering if I should just do the combo shot rather than separating them. Is the risk that much higher with the combo? It would be more convenient to do parvo and distemper together. Separating them will include more vet's visits. And I know from researching childhood vaccines that separating shots isn't necessarily safer since it often means more preservatives. (As a sidenote, we don't do vaccines for the kids.)
And what is adenovirus? Worth vaccinating against?
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Depending upon your area, I would not skip heartworm prevention (not a vaccine - oral medication). Our neighbor does not give his dogs heartworm prevention, and, every 3 years his current pet dog develops a cough and dies of heartworm several months later. This is beyond heartbreaking for me to watch. I've now watched 3 dogs go this way. I agree that some vaccines might not be necessary, and, it sounds like you're doing your research, but, please be careful when deciding to skip vaccines/medication.
Yes , that´s what I would say too . I would definitely get the rabies , plus depending on the area you live in , I would get the vaccines against the most common problems , your dog can pick up .
Something like kennel cough , I would only get if you ever board your pet , but otherwise I wouldn´t , since it really is something , they can only pick up in cramped places .
Distemper is a good one for a puppy , but other than that , like I said , depends on , where you live .
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Depending upon your area, I would not skip heartworm prevention (not a vaccine - oral medication). Our neighbor does not give his dogs heartworm prevention, and, every 3 years his current pet dog develops a cough and dies of heartworm several months later. This is beyond heartbreaking for me to watch. I've now watched 3 dogs go this way. I agree that some vaccines might not be necessary, and, it sounds like you're doing your research, but, please be careful when deciding to skip vaccines/medication.
Thanks! Thanks for all the responses, btw.
We brought Hunter to the vet today - he's seven weeks old now. We went ahead and did the Parvo vaccine, and we're going back in a couple of weeks to do distemper. The vet also gave a de-wormer which covers many parasites, and gave us the heartworm medication to start when he's 3 months old. We got a sample of flea medication to start when/if we notice fleas at any time.
Thanks for the advice...I just don't want to do anything without being informed.
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Guest post: The U.S. government should debrief Dennis Rodman
- By Victor ChaVictor Cha formerly served as Director on the National Security Council staff in the George W. Bush Administration. He is the Korea Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Director of Asian Studies at Georgetown University, and a Fellow in Human Freedom at the George W. Bush Institute.
"Call me, Mr. Obama." That was North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's message to the White House, according to the most unlikely diplomatic emissary, former NBA star Dennis Rodman.
Could you imagine an odder couple? The cross-dressing, body-piercing "bad boy" of basketball sitting with a boy dictator who rides astride a renegade nuclear weapons state. Indeed, just weeks before the bizarre piece of basketball diplomacy, which saw Rodman watch an exhibition game featuring a few Harlem Globetrotters players and spend two days palling around with Kim in Pyongyang, North Korean state propaganda broadcast threatening video images of U.S. President Barack Obama in flames and an American city under attack.
Even more disturbing is the spectacle that the North Korea story has become. Watching George Stephanopoulos's efforts to lambast Rodman for his declarations of friendship with Kim during a nationally televised interview on Sunday, I could not tell whether this was real news or a Saturday Night Live routine — the North Korea story has become a caricature of itself. Before Rodman, it was Google chairman Eric Schmidt; then it was the New York Philharmonic; before that, in 1995, it was professional wrestler Ric Flair, with a guest appearance by boxer Muhammad Ali. North Korea has become the ultimate 24/7 cable international news story meets reality TV — hard news mixed with the odd, the outrageous, and the amusing.
Yet the weapons are real, and the North Korean regime's rhetoric has become increasingly belligerent since Kim Jong Un took the reins after his father's death in December 2011. My research shows that more provocations are coming: South Korea inaugurated a new president on Feb. 25, and North Korea has carried out a belligerent act within 12 weeks of every South Korean presidential inauguration since 1992. It has sold nuclear wares to Syria, and missiles to Pakistan and Iran. It is entirely plausible that North Korea's latest nuclear test on Feb. 12 was helpful not just to Kim, but also to Tehran. This threat is very real and should be taken seriously despite the endless amount of comedic material that the Rodman-Kim images provide for late-night comedians.
The U.S. government should bite its tongue and quietly debrief Rodman. As far as we know, no other American has gotten closer to the mysterious leader. Whatever we can learn, even through the Worm's rose-colored shades, could be useful. Every venue where the North Korean leader has been seen in public with non-North Koreans — amusement parks, basketball games — suggests a penchant for Western leisure. Is this a sign of an enlightened young leader willing to break out of decades of broken ideology and reform? Or a sign of an isolated boy-leader who thinks nuclear weapons are toys, just like basketballs and video games? It is a scary thought that the only American "expert" on this is Dennis Rodman.
Victor Cha is senior advisor for Asia and Korea chair at CSIS and professor at Georgetown University. His latest book is The Impossible State: North Korea, Past and Future.
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Sen. Rockefeller challenges Experian credit bureau CEO
Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., who has a reputation for going after data brokers, sent a letter to the CEO of Experian when he learned that one of the credit bureau's recent acquisitions had sold Social Security numbers to identity thieves.
KrebsOnSecurity has been conducting an investigation of a number of surreptitious sales among companies and countries. Former Washington Post writer Brian Krebs and his readers were able to backtrack from "sourceid" metadata attached to consumer records being sold online. The data led to an American company, USInfoSearch.com, whose CEO in turn blamed a third company, Court Ventures, with whom they had signed an information-sharing agreement.
Court Ventures, which "aggregates, repackages and distributes public record data, obtained from over 1,400 state and county sources," was bought by Experian about a year ago.
U.S. Info Search's CEO says that the people selling this extraordinarily sensitive information accessed Experian's records by posing as a U.S.-based private investigator. They are based in Vietnam.
U.S. Info Search found out about the leak only because it was contacted by the Secret Service, which had obtained a grand jury subpoena against the company. In other words, there's a possibility that Experian might be prosecuted. Acquisitions come with liabilities.
Rockefeller is demanding answers from Donald Robert, Experian's CEO. What seems particularly worrying to Rockefeller, as Natasha Singer reported in The New York Times, is "whether Experian as a company has appropriate practices in place for vetting its customers and sharing sensitive consumer data with them, regardless of the particular line of business."
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PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) - General Motors will add a wing to its engine and transmission development headquarters in Pontiac, Mich., with hopes of getting new technology into cars and trucks much faster.
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The gas tanker reaches Bab el-Mandeb, the entrance to the Gulf of Aden. There's steak, fries and ice cream for lunch -- it probably feels like Sunday to the crew.
At 5:30 p.m., the GasChem Antarctic reaches the Internationally Recommended Transit Corridor protected by the EU mission Atalanta. A dhow, a traditional Arab sailing boat, appears about five nautical miles away from the merchant ship to the port side with three skiffs bobbing behind it, a classic pirate formation. "Hoses on!" the captain commands. The gas tanker passes by without the suspicious boats moving closer.
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This looks very interesting,after you overclock gpu/shaders/ram/voltages you can burn it into bios and not have to use desktop apps to set it for you each boot.If you clock it too far it has a safemode switch at the rear that returns it to standard clocks.It also features extensive ram tuning with presets/manual settings.
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I used to do this all the time.... for my 6800 GT I overclocked it to Ultra speeds (modest bumps to core and memory clocks) and then once it was stable (through drivers) you could go in and edit the original bios file you pulled off of it... change the 3d / 2d clocks to what you want, reflash and there you go.... 6800 GT @ ultra speeds.... you can do this with any card though..
I know flashing the bios was popular back when you were going from like a 6800 to 6800 ultra bios.... but instead of doing the bios which had differences in voltage and what not it was probably a bit safer to just modify your cards bios and reflash with modified clocks.... glad to see they're making it easier though.
What was the tool called now to pull off your bios and reflash? I used to get it off of mvktech.net
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NiBiTor to read, copy & edit your bios & nvFlash to flash.
Yeah i usually flashy my cards bios too once i fount stable clocks(i have with my current card) .. Ive been saying for years somthing like this sould come as standard.
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Command & Conquer: Generals
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"This, my freind, is a must."
First let me start by saying that I have been awaiting this title since, ohh say... early November, not as long as some, but pretty darn long. That said, my opinion may be a bit buyist, but you will get the just of it. Here it goes.
These. are. amazing. For an RTS that is, but still, they are superb. tanks don't go around trees, oh no no no, they roll through them, you hear the splintering of the wood as the crush them. Car alarms go off as the automobiles are crushed by an incoming Chinese Overlord division. These simple things are what makes a great game, the only thing graphics-wise you can complain about is the requirerments it takes to run then full blast.
Balance is always a key factor in RTS games, you can have one super side. Generals does a nice job in balancing everything out, what the GLA lacks in tank power it makes up for in mobility and not needing power. China has massive ground forces, but they are often slow and bulky. The USA has a so-so superweapon, but rules the sky. Dozens of other little checks and balances can be named.
Single Player
This is where the game lacks a bit. While having 3 full campaigns, they just simply don't grab you like some of the other RTS games out there do. Plot is almost non-existent, but a nice relief is that almost none of the missions simply say ''Go and obliterate the enemy base, use these tanks'' some say ''Protect the retreating convoy'' or ''Rescue the downed pilots from the terrorists.'' So while the campaigns are still very enjoyable, if you are looking for a story driven plot, just stick to multi-player.
Hmm... well all of the menus are nice and all, but just average, also of note is that unlike Red Alert 2 the install screens do not introduce you to the story (nor is there any FMV in the entire game).
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Well, all of the sides have their own distinct music. USA has bold militaristic marches. China, while having only one song, has a distinctly orient themed song with a bit of march. The GLA has songs that are sneaky and sometimes get a bit somber.
Well, I hope that gave you some basic info on the Game. I think personally and as expressed by my reveiw that this game is worthy of a buy.
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