Operating Tips. 1  In general, all that is necessary to hook up a receiver and PC to receive ACARS is a good shielded connection from the speaker or earphone of the scanner to the soundcard. A discriminator tap is not required, since it is not involved in AM reception.
Ohio had the second-highest number of drug overdose deaths nationwide in 2014, a number that's soaring, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report released Friday. Heroin and prescription pain relievers took many of those 2,744 lives in Ohio. That's nearly one death every three hours last year. In Kentucky, there were more than 1,000 deaths. These grim totals placed both Ohio and Kentucky among the five states with the highest rates of drug overdose deaths as measured per 100,000 residents.
Table Of Iatrogenic Deaths In The United States. (Deaths induced inadvertently by a physician or surgeon or by medical treatment or diagnostic procedures) We could have an even higher death rate by using Dr. Lucien Leape's 1997 medical and drug error rate of 3 million. (14) Multiplied by the fatality rate of 14% (that Leape used in 1994 (16) we arrive at an annual death rate of 420,000 for drug errors and medical errors combined.