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Effectiveness of lateral femoral cutaneous and femoral nerve block in managing postoperative pain for hemiarthroplasty patients

Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University Journal
Background: The fascia iliaca compartment block is commonly used for postoperative analgesia after hemiarthroplasty. However, the method often fails to adequately manage pain due to frequent sparing of the lateral femoral cutaneous nerve.
Kazi Mahzabin Arin, Shofina Sultana, Ayesha Sultana, Abdul Hannan Mohammad, Chandra Shekhar Karmakar, AKM Akhtaruzzaman   +5 more
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Procalcitonin for the diagnosis of invasive candidiasis: what is the evidence?

Journal of Intensive Care, 2017
s Procalcitonin is a widely used marker for the evaluation of infection and sepsis and to guide antibiotic therapy. During the last decade, several studies evaluated its role and diagnostic performance as a surrogate marker for the identification of ...
Santi Maurizio Raineri, Andrea Cortegiani, Filippo Vitale, Pasquale Iozzo, Antonino Giarratano   +4 more
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Transferrin-Pep63-liposomes accelerate the clearance of Aβ and rescue impaired synaptic plasticity in early Alzheimer’s disease models

Cell Death Discovery, 2021
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is characterized by aberrant accumulation of extracellular β-amyloid (Aβ) peptides in the brain. Soluble Aβ oligomers are thought to be the most neurotoxic species and are correlated with cognitive dysfunction in early AD ...
Xiu Yang, Xu Li, Le Liu, Yuan-Hao Chen, Yue You, Yin Gao, Yue-Ying Liu, Li Yang, Kun Tong, Di-Shi Chen, Jing-Ru Hao, Nan Sun, Zi-Ming Zhao, Can Gao   +13 more
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Medical masks and Respirators for the Protection of Healthcare Workers from SARS-CoV-2 and other viruses

Pulmonology, 2020
The use of medical masks and respirators as personal protective equipment is pivotal to reducing the level of biological hazard to which healthcare workers are exposed during the outbreak of highly diffusible pathogens, such as the recent novel ...
Mariachiara Ippolito, Filippo Vitale, Giuseppe Accurso, Pasquale Iozzo, Cesare Gregoretti, Antonino Giarratano, Andrea Cortegiani   +6 more
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Patient attitudes towards analgesia and their openness to non-pharmacological methods such as acupuncture in the emergency department [PDF]

, 2018
Aims: To investigate patient attitudes to analgesia, opioids and non-pharmacological analgesia including acupuncture, in the ED. Methods: ED patients with pain were surveyed regarding: pain scores, satisfaction, addiction concern, non-pharmacological ...
Aldridge, Emogene S, Bulsara, Max K, Hince, Dana A, Jan, Andrew L, Rogers, Ian R, Visser, Eric J   +5 more
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The challenge of evaluating pain and a pre-incisional local anesthetic block. [PDF]

, 2014
Background. Our objective was to test the effectiveness of a local anesthetic line block administered before surgery in reducing postoperative pain scores in dogs undergoing ovariohysterectomy (OVHX). Methods.
Kass, Philip H, Lascelles, B Duncan X, McKune, Carolyn M, Pascoe, Peter J   +3 more
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Establishment of a humanized patient‐derived xenograft mouse model of high‐grade serous ovarian cancer for preclinical evaluation of combination immunotherapy

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
We have established a humanized orthotopic patient‐derived xenograft (Hu‐oPDX) mouse model of high‐grade serous ovarian cancer (HGSOC) that recapitulates human tumor–immune interactions. Using combined anti‐PD‐L1/anti‐CD73 immunotherapy, we demonstrate the model's improved biological relevance and enhanced translational value for preclinical ...
Luka Tandaric, Line Bjørge, Martine Rott Lode, Cecilie Fredvik Torkildsen, Pia Aehnlich, Rammah Elnour, Daniela Elena Costea, Lars Andreas Akslen, Liv Cecilie Vestrheim Thomsen, Emmet McCormack, Katrin Kleinmanns   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ingestion of Amniotic Fluid Enhances\ud Opiate Analgesia in Rats [PDF]

, 1986
Placenta ingestion has recently been shown to enhance opiate-mediated analgesia produced by morphine injection, footshock, or vaginal/cervical stimulation.
Abbott, Patricia, Kristal, Dr. Mark B., Thompson, Alexis C.   +2 more
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Topical analgesia for acute otitis media [PDF]

, 2006
BACKGROUND: Acute otitis media (AOM) is a spontaneously remitting disease for which pain is the most distressing symptom. Antibiotics are now known to have less benefit than previously assumed.OBJECTIVES: To assess the effectiveness of topical analgesia ...
Del Mar, C, Dooley, L, Foxlee, R, Johansson, A, Wejfalk, J   +4 more
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Added Prognostic Value of EEG Reactivity in Comatose Patients Following Cardiac Arrest

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objectives To evaluate the added prognostic value of EEG reactivity for favorable outcome compared with background analysis during and after targeted temperature management (TTM). Methods Prospective observational cohort study of comatose post–cardiac arrest patients admitted to a single academic center between 2017 and 2022, all undergoing ...
Sarah Caroyer, Marie Obrecht, Charlotte de Maeseneire, Charlotte Damien, Chantal Depondt, Lorenzo Ferlini, Estelle Rikir, Filippo Annoni, Fabio Silvio Taccone, Nicolas Mavroudakis, Benjamin Legros, Nicolas Gaspard   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source