Biomedical subjects
Publications and source records attributed to R Fowles.
The AIDMAN pilot project will connect health clinics on remote Greek islands with a mainland hospital. We have developed a virtual consultation workstation for the project, together with a satellite communication network. A UK pilot site has been used to test the concepts and applications between a surgery in Chorleywood and St Mary's Hospital in London.
In this paper we show that there is weak statistical evidence for a blood lead-blood pressure relationship in the second National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey data. The significance and magnitude of this relationship for 40-59 year old white males as originally reported by Pirkle, Schwartz, Landis, and Harlan does not characterize other age and sex samples and is sensitive to the use of blood pressure data of questionable quality.
The details of three-dimensional cardiac anatomy are complex, and structure recognition is difficult in tomograms produced with recently developed two-dimensional ultrasonic sector scanners. This article presents a method we have found useful for systematic inclusion of most cardiac structures during such echocardiographic examinations. Orthogonal planes, aligned parallel and perpendicular to the long or major left ventricular axis, are obtained from each of three transducer positions on the body surface. Moving this X-Y image plane through the heart perpendicular to the plane (z axis) allows the viewer to integrate the images into a mental picture of the whole structure. The illustrations are oriented as they are displayed by ultrasonic sector scanners so they aid rapid recognition of cardiac structures.