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Contents. ASA physical status classification system. The ASA physical status classification system is a system for assessing the fitness of patients before surgery. In 1963 the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) adopted the five-category physical status classification system; a sixth category was later added. These are: Healthy person.
The Indiana State Teachers’ Retirement Fund (TRF) was created by the Indiana General Assembly in 1921. Today, TRF manages and distributes the retirement benefits of educators in all public schools, as well as some charter schools and universities, throughout Indiana. Headed by a governor-appointed executive director and a six-member Board of ...
The Revised Cardiac Risk Index (RCRI) is a tool used to estimate a patient's risk of perioperative cardiac complications. The RCRI and similar clinical prediction tools are derived by looking for an association between preoperative variables (e.g., patient's age, type of surgery, comorbid diagnoses, or laboratory data) and the risk for cardiac complications in a cohort of surgical patients ...
The American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) is an educational, research and scientific association of physicians organized to raise the standards of the medical practice of anesthesiology and to improve patient care. As of 2023, the organization included more than 57,000 national and international members and has more than 100 full-time ...
Relative accessible surface area or relative solvent accessibility (RSA) of a protein residue is a measure of residue solvent exposure. It can be calculated by formula: [1] where ASA is the solvent accessible surface area and MaxASA is the maximum possible solvent accessible surface area for the residue. [1]
Argininosuccinic aciduria. Argininosuccinic aciduria is an inherited disorder that causes the accumulation of argininosuccinic acid (also known as "ASA") in the blood and urine. Some patients may also have an elevation of ammonia, a toxic chemical, which can affect the nervous system. Argininosuccinic aciduria may become evident in the first ...
Aspirin, also known as acetylsalicylic acid (ASA), is a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) used to reduce pain, fever, and/or inflammation, and as an antithrombotic. [10] Specific inflammatory conditions which aspirin is used to treat include Kawasaki disease , pericarditis , and rheumatic fever .
How the age of a Korean person, who was born on June 15, is determined by traditional and official reckoning. Traditional East Asian age reckoning covers a group of related methods for reckoning human ages practiced in the East Asian cultural sphere, where age is the number of calendar years in which a person has been alive; it starts at 1 at birth and increases at each New Year.