... saline versus lactated Ringer’s solution for intraopera-
Commentary
Paper reports overview: Cranberry juice, fluid replacement and
bad innovations
Jonathan Ball
Lecturer in Intensive Care Medicine, ... effects of this
therapy, and most certainly significantly increased the risk for
haemorrhage. On a more optimistic note, early experimental
work into the efficacy of a natur...
... problem in ICU.
Ely and colleagues have aided identification and
standardisation of this problem by designing and validating an
assessment system (see paper report) [12]. An interesting
paper on the ... effectiveness of employing heliox as an
adjunctive therapy in spontaneously breathing infants with
moderate–to-severe acute bronchiolitis [9].
Clinical chemistry
A pilot study by Abi...
... bind carbohydrates specifically and reversibly
are termed as lectins. They occur ubiquitously in nature and
have diverse role in plants, animals and microbes. T he
recognition of c arbohydrate m ... thermally denatured protein was
followed b y c ooling t he heate d samples to 3 5 °C, re moving
any p articulate matter by centrifuging, and t hen recording
the fluorescence spectra and...
... and B. cepacia were 0.17
µg/ml and 8.40 µg/ml, respectively. The C
L
and MAC val-
ues for P. aeruginosa and B. cepacia differed significantly
(P exact = 0.004) when the data were analyzed by ... TSB,
and 1% BSA. Samples were layered over 0.3 ml of a cush-
ion composed of 5 parts of dibutyl phthalate and 3 parts of
di-isodecyl phthalate (density
20
= 1.01) and centrifuged at
ap...
... and
physostigmine; interestingly, as in most things, septic delay of
treatment beyond 6 hours negated any positive effects on
survival. So far, studies on the cholinergic inflammatory
pathway ... nicotine
(400 μg/kg), physostigmine (80 μg/kg) and neostigmine
(80 μg/kg) demonstrated improved survival, and treatment
with physostigmine significantly reduced lethality as efficiently
as dire...
... ST-T
abnormalities, myocarditis and cardiomyopathy with H
1
N
1
influenza in
pregnancy: two case reports and review of the literature. Journal of
Medical Case Reports 2011 5:314.
Submit your next manuscript ... influenza while pregnancy is a
rare cause of cardiomyopathy. Pregnancy was identified as a major risk factor for increased mortality and morbidity
due to H
1
N
1
influenza in...
... h omozygous patients are in danger of
increased perioperative mortality and have a reduced life
expectancy. In particular, conditions such as hypother-
mia, hypoxia, acid osis and de hydration ... triggered an
acute exacerbation of SCD, such as hypoxia, hypovole-
mia, hypothermia and hyperviscosity, were prev ented by
monitoring his vital signs and maintaining them within
tight ranges...
... subcutaneous hydatid cysts was 2%,
but some of the patients had hydatid cysts in other organs
too [3]. Subcutaneous hydatid cyst may be secondary or
primary. In secondary cysts, there is a primary location ... palmar hydatid cyst in a literature review. In our cases,
the hydatid cysts were located subcutaneously, the
patients had not undergone previous surgery for hydatid
cysts, and no hyda...
... generalist
(something which is most likely in health care systems
that have a strong and established primary care system).
Secondly, we all have a responsibility to add to the medi-
cal corpus of ...
University College London).
References
1. Peveler R, Kilkenny L, Kinmouth A-L: Medically unexplained phys-
ical symptoms in primary care: A comparison of self-report
screening questionnaires...
... [http://www.ihealthcoalition.org/ethics/
ehcode.html].
2. HON Code of Conduct [http://www.hon.ch/HONcode/Conduct.
html].
3. Wall RJ: Is UpToDate ready for the ICU? Crit Care 2002, 6:in
press.
4. Chapman MG: Antibiotic guide. Crit Care 2002, 6:in