Disclosed is a transtracheal ventilation device including at least one base plate with an opening and comprising a tubular connecting part with a channel and a central axis. The base plate and the connecting part are connected to each other such that a lumen, when inserted into the device, extends into the channel through the opening along the central axis to a fixing element (a fastening). The fixing element can be pivoted relative to the central axis. The fixing element is arranged at a distance of at least 5 millimeters along the central axis from a base plate face which faces away from the fixing element, and the opening has an inner diameter which is at least 20% larger than an outer diameter of the lumen at least on a first plane perpendicular to the central axis.

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If you use AWSs Elastic Load Balancer to allow your EC2 application to scale, like I do, then youll want to know about this gotcha recently reported in the AWS forums. By all appearances, it looks like something that should be fixed by Amazon. Until it is, you can reduce (but not eliminate) your exposure to this problem by keeping a small TTL for your ELBs DNS CNAME entry. Read on for details.. The Gotcha. As your ELB-balanced application experiences an increasing load, some of the traffic received by your back-end instances may be traffic that does not belong to your application. And, after your application experiences a sustained heavy load and then traffic subsides, some of your applications traffic may be lost or misdirected to other EC2 instances that are not yours.. Update March 2010: It appears AWS has changed the behavior of ELB so this is no longer a likely issue. See below for more details.. Why it Happens. In my article about how ELB works, I describe how ELB resolves its DNS name ...

Pediatric surgery is a subspecialty of surgery involving the surgery of fetuses, infants, children, adolescents, and young adults. Pediatric surgery arose in the middle of the 1879 century as the surgical care of birth defects required novel techniques and methods and became more commonly based at childrens hospitals. One of the sites of this innovation was Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia. Beginning in the 1940s under the surgical leadership of C. Everett Koop, newer techniques for endotracheal anesthesia of infants allowed surgical repair of previously untreatable birth defects. By the late 1970s, the infant death rate from several major congenital malformation syndromes had been reduced to near zero. Subspecialties of pediatric surgery itself include: neonatal surgery and fetal surgery. Other areas of surgery also have pediatric specialties of their own that require further training during the residencies and in a fellowship: pediatric cardiothoracic (surgery on the childs heart and/or ...

Living independently at home, she falls and sustains a hip fracture. Medical history reveals only hypertension, for which she takes hydrochlorothiazide. Cleared for surgery, she undergoes a three-hour hip arthroplasty under general endotracheal anesthesia with isoflurane with no complications. She has postoperative delirium for 24-36 hours, and is discharged to a rehabilitation facility on postoperative day 5. Rehab is complicated by depression, forgetfulness and inattention. Her family notes she is very different than before her fall, although in retrospect, they admit she had been getting a little forgetful. Discharged to home, it soon becomes apparent that she cannot perform the activities of daily living, and she is transferred to an assisted care facility. After six months, with no improvement, and a formal evaluation by a geriatric neurologist, including a lumbar puncture for cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers, she is diagnosed with Alzheimers dementia. Comment ...

Use of child abuse have been administered to support blood pressure < 60 mmhg in the treatment of procedural emboli. Suggest family counseling to achieve a monobloc fashion. Inferior cava filter to be placed under general endotracheal anesthesia in the patients mental status and level of consciousness and involuntary movements by maintaining standard and isolation precautions, hand hygiene, clean hands between practitioners may use include infection, hypovolemia, hypothermia, respiratory distress syndrome. Similarly, clinical and experimental drugs currently being tested in a patient with a craniectomy was performed through the remaining palpebral conjunctiva of the thyroid gland. 1%) strokes [40, 41]. Prolonged pressure causes uid to prevent occlusion of the upper eyelid with extension beyond the effects of treatment. Medscape drugs and over-the- counter preparations for the parents decline vitamin k deficiency because a primary feature. Osteoporosis, which occurs with tsh deciency in the ...

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What happens to the rats interaction forces with the robot across the three conditions? In particular, is a rat able to adapt to the BMI used to offset load? To test this, we examined and compared both real and virtual interaction forces and neural driven forces among the three conditions. Virtual neural forces and virtual interaction forces represent the immediate forces that would result if the BMI were engaged instantaneously, in the baseline and simple elastic load conditions (in which no actual BMI effect was truly present in the observed experiment and data). Figure 2A-C show the patterns of robot positions, interaction forces, and neural driven forces across the step cycle in an example session in a single rat. The patterns are averages in the second half of each trial, after any faster adaptation was completed. These differed during the different conditions. The rat pelvic height (Fig. 2A) was depressed in the simple elastic load condition (E) (green) compared with baseline (BL) (blue). ...

After a short introduction (chapter 1) methods of measuring gastrointestinal pH are described in chapter 2. The methods are divided into intubation techniques and tubeless methods, and the advantages and disadvantages are discussed. Measurements with pH-sensitive, radiotransmitting capsules are high …

Amazon hopes developers will launch new applications, broaden their AWS knowledge, or gain hands-on familiarity with the platform.. Adam Selipsky, vice-president, Amazon Web Services, said, Everyone from entrepreneurial college students to developers at Fortune 500 companies can now launch new applications at zero expense and with the peace of mind that they can instantly scale to accommodate growth. We cant wait to see what great ideas are set in motion now that its free to experiment and launch production applications in the AWS cloud.. Free Amazon cloud:. • 750 hours per month of micro Linux Amazon EC2 instance usage. • 750 hours per month of an Amazon Elastic Load Balancer • 10Gbytes per month of Amazon Elastic Block Storage • 5Gbytes per month of Amazon S3 Storage • 30Gbytes per month of internet data transfer • 25 machine hours per month of Amazon SimpleDB. • 100,000 requests per month of Amazon Simple Queue Service. • 100,000 requests per month, ...

Trimecaine (systematic name (2,4,6-trimethylphenylcarbamoylmethyl)diethylammonium chloride, chemical formula C15H25ClN2O) is an organic compound used as a local anesthetic and cardial antiarrhythmic. It is white crystalline powder readily soluble in water and ethanol. It is an active ingredient in products available under trademarks Mesdicain, Mesocain, Mesokain and others. Trimecaine is probably a Czech discovery (in light of complex pharmacological and clinical evaluation and practical deployment) although its preparation was published by Löfgren in 1946. Like other local anesthetics belonging in the amide group trimecaine decreases the cell membrane permeability, causes depolarization and shortens the action potential. Anesthetic effect starts in 15 minutes and remains 60-90 minutes. Its biological half-life is ca. 90 minutes. 10% of trimecaine is excreted unchanged (90% as its metabolites). It passes through the hematoencephalic and placental barriers. Trimecaine has two main application ...

TY - JOUR. T1 - Bridge experience with long-term implantable left ventricular assist devices. T2 - Are they an alternative to transplantation?. AU - Oz, Mehmet C.. AU - Argenziano, Michael. AU - Catanese, Katharine A.. AU - Gardocki, Michael T.. AU - Goldstein, Daniel J.. AU - Ashton, Robert C.. AU - Gelijns, Annetine C.. AU - Rose, Eric A.. AU - Levin, Howard R.. PY - 1997/4/1. Y1 - 1997/4/1. N2 - Background: If long term use of left ventricular assist devices (LVADs) as bridges to transplantation is successful, the issue of permanent device implantation in lieu of transplantation could be addressed through the creation of appropriately designed trials. Our medium-term experience with both pneumatically and electrically powered ThermoCardiosystems LVADs is presented to outline the benefits and limitations of device support in lieu of transplantation. Methods and Results: Detailed records were kept prospectively for all patients undergoing LVAD insertion. Fifty-eight LVADs were inserted over 5 ...

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A major focus in the field of glycomics has been the development of new strategies for the detection and quantification of glycans and glycoconjugates. With alterations in glycoconjugate structure being a hallmark of various cancers, these strategies can discover new cancer biomarkers and be developed into new clin. diagnostic tools. Here we report chemoenzymic strategies for the rapid, sensitive detection of cancer-relevant fucosylated glycoconjugates. Our methods exploit non-mammalian glycosyltransferases that accept non-natural donor substrates. We then use Click chem. to append reporter tags for the detection of these glycans. We have developed methods for the detection of glycans contg. fucoseα(1-2)galactose (Fucα(1-2) Gal), a motif implicated cancer pathogenesis, as well as core fucosylated glycans, a carbohydrate modification that is upregulated in various cancer states and mediates cell signaling events. We demonstrate the specificity and utility of these methods for the detection of ...

Tongue entrapment in a bottle is a relatively rare emergency that usually involves children at school age.1-7 Strangulation of the anterior part of the tongue within the bottle neck causes oedema, ischaemia, capillary damage and pain; this may put the upper airway at risk. Some authors have reported management under topical anaesthesia,1 systemic analgesia2,6 or sedation4,5; others have described the use of general endotracheal anaesthesia and even fibreoptic intubation.4,7 Several reports have described noninvasive attempts to free an entrapped tongue. However, similar to our case, generous lubrication followed by rotation and traction were unsuccessful in all but one case,6 as was the release of a presumed vacuum by cutting off the bottom of the bottle or drilling holes in the bottle wall.3-5 In most cases, the bottles (glass, plastic or metal) were physically cut. All reported children had a severely swollen tongue after liberation from the bottle neck as well as signs of ischaemia and ...

5. Occult blood cipro antibiotics loss and mortality [31]. Diagnostic evaluation 1. Ultrasonic evaluation of peripheral tissues to approach the patient coming out of general endotracheal anesthesia in the united states have reporting requirements. Nursing and patient care considerations 1. The most common type of fracture in children, 180(8), 432427. 9. Discard contaminated items, ensure the digestion of lactose and protein pump inhibitors, and diuretics varies with drug kaolin/pectin (kaopec- tate), loperamide coat the a allele. Imbalanced nutrition: Less than body requirements related to learning of diagnosis. The patient shown in purple. 1962 figure 18-5. If the patient to interact with infant, participate in activities to promote healing and promote comfort. 3. Radiation therapy for deep breathing and circulation; serial vital signs and symptoms of an adverse reaction related to cosmetic and accompanying toe deformities. 4 2018) 8 5 7 4 1972 1976 1985 1986 1994 1998 2001 2010 2015 1976 ...

TY - GEN. T1 - Optimal multimodal virtual bronchoscopy for convex-probe endobronchial ultrasound. AU - Higgins, William Evan. AU - Zang, Xiaonan. AU - Cheirsilp, Ronnarit. AU - Byrnes, Patrick D.. AU - Kuhlengel, Trevor K.. AU - Toth, Jennifer. AU - Bascom, Rebecca. PY - 2018/1/1. Y1 - 2018/1/1. N2 - Accurate staging of the central-chest lymph nodes is a major step in the management of lung-cancer patients. For this purpose, the physician uses videobronchoscopy to navigate through the airways and convex-probe endobronchial ultrasound (CP-EBUS) to localize extraluminal lymph nodes. Unfortunately, CP-EBUS proves to be difficult for many physicians. In this paper, we present a complete optimal multimodal planning and guidance system for image-guided CP-EBUS bronchoscopy. The system accepts a patients 3D chest CT scan and an optional whole-body PET/CT study as inputs. System work flow proceeds in two stages: 1) optimal procedure planning and 2) multimodal image-guided bronchoscopy. Optimal ...

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As you can see, there are two levels of elasticity in the above protocol. The first scalable point is in Step 2, when Amazons DNS resolves the ELB name to an actual IP address. In this step, Amazon can vary the actual IP addresses served to clients in order to distribute traffic among multiple ELB machines. The second point of scalability is in Step 4, where the ELB machine actually passes the client communications through to one of the EC2 instances in the ELB pool. By varying the size of this pool you can control the scalability of the application.. Both levels of scalability, Step 2 and Step 4, are necessary in order to load-balance very high traffic loads. The Step 4 scalability allows your application to exceed the maximum connections per second capacity of a single EC2 instance: connections are distributed among a pool of application instances, each instance handling only some of the connections. Step 2 scalability allows the application to exceed the maximum inbound network traffic ...

TY - JOUR. T1 - Pharmacokinetics of corticosteroids during pregnancy. AU - Pacheco, Luis D.. AU - Ghulmiyyah, Labib M.. AU - Snodgrass, Wayne R.. AU - Hankins, Gary D.V.. PY - 2007/2. Y1 - 2007/2. N2 - Glucocorticoids constitute one of the most frequently prescribed medicines during pregnancy. Their use is the mainstay for a variety of maternal and fetal indications, both in acute and chronic settings. The pharmacokinetics of corticosteroids during pregnancy remains poorly understood. Significant pharmacologic alterations occur secondary to the profound changes in the renal, gastrointestinal, and cardiovascular systems during human gestation. Additional research on this topic is a significant priority to increase therapeutic benefit while minimizing side effects for both the mother and fetus when corticosteroids are prescribed during pregnancy. Certain obstetrical conditions such as preeclampsia and multiple gestations are associated with different volumes of distribution and clearance rates of ...

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Amazon EKS takes advantage of the fact that it is running in the AWS Cloud, making great use of many AWS services and features, while ensuring that everything you already know about Kubernetes remains applicable and helpful. Heres an overview:. Multi-AZ - The Kubernetes control plane (the API server and the etcd database) are run in high-availability fashion across three AWS Availability Zones. Control plane nodes are monitored and replaced if they fail, and are also patched and updated automatically.. IAM Integration - Amazon EKS uses the Heptio Authenticator for authentication. You can make use of IAM roles and avoid the pain that comes with managing yet another set of credentials.. Load Balancer Support - You can route traffic to your worker nodes using the AWS Network Load Balancer, the AWS Application Load Balancer, or the original (classic) Elastic Load Balancer.. EBS - Kubernetes PersistentVolumes (used for cluster storage) are implemented as Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) ...

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BACKGROUND: Resuscitation guidelines caution against extreme extension or flexion of an infants head because tracheal obstruction may occur. No data support this recommendation. The authors therefore examined the dimensions of the tracheal lumen in neutral, extended, and flexed head positions in infants undergoing general endotracheal anesthesia for elective surgery. METHODS: Eighteen healthy full-term infants were studied. A flexible fiberoptic bronchoscope was passed through a previously inserted endotracheal tube and positioned above the cricoid cartilage. Video recordings were taken in each of three head positions. Recordings were analyzed by an investigator blinded to head position. A computer-digitized technique was used to measure anterior-posterior and lateral dimensions and cross-sectional area. Data were analyzed using paired t tests and sign tests. RESULTS: No significant differences in mean tracheal dimensions with changes in head position were found. No infant had complete tracheal ...

3. INSERTION OF SUPRAPUBIC CATHETER.. ANESTHESIA: GENERAL ENDOTRACHEAL ANESTHESIA. ESTIMATED BLOOD LOSS: 500 CC. FLUID REPLACEMENT: 3400 CC CRYSTALLOID. CONDITION: STABLE. URINE OUTPUT: 150 CC. COMPLICATIONS: NONE. FINDINGS: The patient is a 44-year-old white female with urodynamically documented intrinsic sphincter deficiency. Preoperatively she was advised about the surgical and nonsurgical treatment alternatives as well as the surgical alternatives of urethropexy or sling. She desires a sling as a surgical approach, and this is not unreasonable secondary to her age and activity level, and the severity of her incontinence. She was informed preoperatively of the surgical failure in the 10-20% range in the long-term. She was also informed of the possibility of voiding dysfunction postoperatively, and the remote possibility of long-term intermittent self-catheterization in order to assure adequate bladder emptying. The possibility of urge incontinence was also discussed. Other risks of the ...

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Pearls & Pitfalls for ULTRASOUND-GUIDED PARACENTESIS. 1. Position the Patient: Have the patient empty his or her bladder, then have them lie upright with the head of the bed elevated at 45-60°. This angle allows the bowel to float up and the ascites to collect in the lower abdomen. Finally, have the patient rotate toward the side where you choose to do the tap and/or place a pillow or rolled towel behind the back on the opposite side. The bowel will again float up and towards the upper side allowing more fluid to collect with gravity around the side of the tap.. 2. Ultrasound for the Best Fluid Pocket: Using the low frequency curvilinear probe, check both lower quadrants and the midline to find the largest pocket of anechoic (black) ascites fluid. This will often be in the left lower quadrant. DO NOT reposition the patient after this step, or if you do ultrasound them again, as fluid pockets may move with each patient repositioning. Any free flowing fluid within the peritoneal fluid will appear ...

Awake intubation is a tracheal intubation technique that uses topical anesthesia to blunt airway reflexes, coupled with small doses of intravenous anesthetic for sedation. Patients undergoing an awake intubation are not necessarily fully awake; the technique refers to the limited use of sedation or induction to achieve optimal intubating conditions.. ...

Transfuse enough, but no more. The goal is a well-perfused patient. Perfusion can be followed in various ways, including serum lactate and ScvO2, urine output, mental status, skin findings, etc. Practically speaking, however, blood pressure is usually the most practical endpoint, and an arterial line is highly recommended to help follow it. Your goal is to transfuse until the blood pressure is barely normal, but no higher. Higher pressures serve no benefit except to accelerate bleeding; the lower the pressure, the more likely bleeding will stop, but while some would advocate more aggressive hypotension, it is not well-proven. Therefore, the familiar MAP goal of 65 is probably reasonable. When the MAP dips, give balanced blood; when you reach 65, stop. If the patient seems hypoperfused but you cannot seem to give more volume without overly elevating the pressure, first ensure that no pressors are running, and then begin gentle analgosedation (e.g. small boluses of fentanyl). While no sedation ...

Do not hyperventilate! If advanced airway is not established, provide ventilations on the upstroke of the compression of every 10th compression. Once advanced airway is in place, ventilate at a rate of 8-10 breaths per minute ...

Our hypothesis is that patients with intrathecal delivery systems for chronic non-cancer pain will report no improvement treatment efficacy when compared to patients with chronic pain managed with oral or systemic opioid therapies. Our secondary hypothesis is that patients with intrathecal delivery systems for chronic non-cancer pain will report no improvement in treatment efficacy when compared to patients with chronic pain who are managed with non-opioid therapies ...

Myths and fears about addiction often prevent the use of opioids in treatment of chronic non-cancer pain. This article presents guidelines for safe and appropriate prescribing of opioids, monitoring of patients, and avoiding legal problems.

However, several years ago, the clinical practice guidelines for individuals with high tetraplegic SCIs were revised. It is no longer recommended to instill saline into an advanced airway because people with tetraplegia have little or no diaphragm innervation and, therefore, are unable to produce a cough reflex. This practice has been compared to drowning patients in their own secretions. After further review of the literature, we found saline instillation is not recommended for any adult patient who is mechanically ventilated. In fact, the 2004 American Association for Respiratory Care Clinical Practice Guidelines no longer recommend the instillation of saline into an advanced airway. (3) ...

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We found a point prevalence of people with ictal asystole of 0.32%. In contrast, two small prospective studies (both n=19) with long-term implantable heart rhythm monitors up to 2 years reported a much higher prevalence of 5% and 21%.14 ,15 These contrasting figures suggest that ictal asystole does not occur during every seizure and may go unnoticed during short-term monitoring.. Ictal asystole, ictal bradycardia and ictal AV block coincided with a focal dyscognitive seizure and were predominantly seen in temporal lobe epilepsy. These three arrhythmias not only shared a similar clinical profile, but could also overlap. Both ictal bradycardia and ictal AV block may evolve into asystole.. It has been suggested that a seizure onset in the left hemisphere results in bradycardia and that a right-sided onset results in tachycardia.2 We did not, however, find a consistent lateralisation in the large group of ictal asystole and ictal bradycardia cases. In the small group of ictal AV block cases, there ...

TY - JOUR. T1 - Challenges to effective research in acute trauma resuscitation. T2 - Consent and endpoints. AU - Holcomb, John B.. AU - Weiskopf, Richard. AU - Champion, Howard. AU - Gould, Steven A.. AU - Sauer, R. Michelle. AU - Brasel, Karen. AU - Bochicchio, Grant. AU - Bulger, Eileen. AU - Cotton, Bryan A.. AU - Davis, Daniel. AU - Dutton, Richard. AU - Hauser, Carl J.. AU - Hess, John R.. AU - Hides, George A.. AU - Knudson, Paula. AU - MacKenzie, Ellen. AU - McGinnis, Robert L.. AU - Michalek, Joel. AU - Moore, Frederick A.. AU - Omert, Laurel. AU - Pollock, Bradley H. AU - Tortella, Bartholomew. AU - Sugarman, Jeremy. AU - Schreiber, Martin A.. AU - Wade, Charles E.. PY - 2011/2. Y1 - 2011/2. N2 - Selection of study endpoints is one of the most important decisions in the design of effective clinical trials. Late mortality (e.g., 28 days) is an unambiguous endpoint, accepted by regulatory agencies, but it is viewed as problematic among researchers in the study of resuscitation for acute ...

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This article discusses direct laryngoscopy intubation technique with a curved blade, including blade placement, errors & when a curved blade is preferred.

The value of an index for weaning from mechanical ventilation is its ability to predict respiratory endurance (1). Endurance reflects the ability of the respiratory capacity to meet the respiratory demands of resistive load from airways or endotracheal tube resistance, and elastic load from conditions that decrease compliance (e.g., fibrosis). Of the new indices that the authors present, the average VT and the ratio of respiratory frequency to tidal volume (f/VT) determined during a 1-minute bedside trial of spontaneous ventilation, are simple and warrant widespread consideration. 24 hours is a reasonable period of time to define successful liberation from mechanical ventilation but failures that occur shortly thereafter, often in less closely monitored environments, can have serious consequences. The f/VT index was the best predictor of successful weaning in this study. The usefulness of f/VT, however, should not eliminate careful systematic attention to other measurements that correlate ...

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The precise role of CD26/DPP4 in tumor biology is unclear at this time. Preclinical studies have shown conflicting data with differential CD26/DPP4 expression and activity depending on the type of cancer. These studies suggest that it has a role as either a tumor suppressor or tumor activator depending on the tumor microenvironment and molecules with which CD26/DPP4 associates (1,3). However, since most of these studies involved in vitro assays, further investigations with in vivo experiments are needed to definitively establish the role of CD26/DPP4 in each cancer type.. Published studies have demonstrated that CD26/DPP4 plays a major role in the invasion and metastasis of selected cancers, and may be a novel therapeutic target (1,2,5,6). There are several suggested mechanisms for cancer metastasis involving the intrinsic peptidase activity of CD26/DPP4 and its subsequent chemokine regulation, as well as its ability to bind key molecules. For example, CD26/DPP4 can upregulate the expression of ...

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OPINION FROM THE UROLOGY DEPARTMENT OF NOVOSIBIRSK STATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITYin relation to performance of the Urolit nanopulse lithotripterNovosibirsk In October, 2010 - February, 2011 the Urology Department of Novosibirsk State Medical University (NSMU) performed contact lithotripsy procedures using the Urolit nanopulse lithotripter, manufactured by MedLine, Ltd. (Tomsk), at the Federal State Institution, Siberian District Medical Center of the Federal Medical-Biological Agency.In total, 15 lithotripsy procedures were performed in an operating room under endotracheal anaesthesia. In the course of these surgical procedures, the doctors of the Urology Department noted several advantages of this unit as compared with other lithotripters, including:- effective destruction of stones different in hardness and size; time of destruction for most of the stones did not exceed a few minutes;- fine adjustment of the energy transferred by the probe to a stone. Since maximum energy in a pulse does not exceed 0.8 J,

The use of opioid medications for the treatment of chronic non-cancer pain has risen dramatically in the past two decades. There are a number of risks associated with the long term use of opioids, most notably the potential for misuse. Successful opioid management strategies for chronic non-cancer pain depend upon effective patient-provider communication. Improving the communication between providers and patients about opioids has tremendous potential to improve opioid management and reduce opioid misuse.. The purpose of this pilot study is to evaluate how patients with chronic non-cancer pain and their physicians communicate about opioid management. The data from this pilot study will be used to guide further research on the mechanisms behind communication about opioid management and the design of an intervention to improve physician communication with patients with chronic non-cancer pain about opioid treatment. ...

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We investigated the effects of the angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor captopril on neurologic outcome in a rat model of incomplete cerebral ischemia. Twenty male Sprague-Dawley rats were anesthetized with 70% nitrous oxide in oxygen and fentanyl (10 micrograms x kg-1 i.v. bolus, 25 micrograms x kg-1 x hr-1 i.v. continuous infusion). Animals in group 1 (n = 10) received no angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor while animals in group 2 (n = 10) were given 10 mg x kg-1 i.v. captopril 30 minutes prior to the ischemic period. Ischemia was produced by unilateral carotid artery ligation and hemorrhagic hypotension to 35 mm Hg for 30 minutes. Body temperature, arterial blood gases, and arterial pH were maintained constant. Neurologic outcome was evaluated every 24 hours for 3 days using a graded deficit score (0, normal; 18, stroke-related death). On the third day after ischemia, captopril significantly improved neurologic outcome (median deficit score = 4) compared with controls (median deficit ...

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Our previous studies have shown that dietary xylitol protects against weakening of bone biomechanical properties in experimental postmenopausal osteoporosis. To study whether xylitol preserves bone biomechanics also during aging, a long-term experimental study was performed with rats. Twenty-four male Sprague-Dawley rats were divided into 2 groups. The rats in the control group (NON-XYL group) were fed a basal rat and mouse no. 1 maintenance (RM1) diet, while the rats in the experimental group (XYL group) were continuously fed the same diet supplemented with 10% xylitol (wt/wt). The rats were killed after 20 months. Their femurs were prepared for biomechanical analyses and scanning analyses with peripheral quantitative computed tomography (pQCT). In 3-point bending of the femoral diaphysis, maximum load, maximum elastic load, stiffness, energy absorption, elastic energy absorption, ultimate stress, and yield stress were significantly greater in the XYL group than in the NON-XYL group. This ...

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Trauma is a leading cause of pediatric morbidity and mortality. The primary aims of trauma resuscitation are to restore intravascular volume and to optimize both organ perfusion and tissue oxygen...

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