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Waveguide Photoactuators: Materials, Fabrication, and Applications

open access: yesAdvanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Waveguide photoactuators convert guided light into mechanical motion. Their tethered‐flexible design enables minimally invasive surgery and confined‐space robotics. This review aims to guide materials selection, device design, and system integration, accelerating the transition of waveguide photoactuators from laboratory prototypes to versatile ...
Minjie Xi   +4 more
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Durability of Soft Pneumatic Actuators: A Review and Benchmarking Protocol

open access: yesAdvanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Lack of durability is a key challenge hindering the broad scale adoption of soft pneumatic actuators (SPAs) in automation industries. This review provides a comprehensive overview of existing research on SPA durability, introduces a standardized durability benchmarking protocol to consolidate the testing of SPAs, and outlines promising directions for ...
Dickson Chiu Yu Wong   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Convalescent Plasma: Education and Administration Implications

Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing, 2021
Convalescent plasma has emerged as a treatment that merits consideration for COVID-19-positive patients requiring hospitalization. With millions of cases of COVID-19 being reported worldwide, nurses across specialties are caring for infected patients and are often the primary patient educators about convalescent plasma treatment.
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Convalescent plasma in oncohematological patients

Hematological Oncology, 2022
Daniele Focosi   +4 more
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Convalescent Plasma for Covid-19

New England Journal of Medicine, 2022
Michael J, Joyner, Liise-Anne, Pirofski
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The use of Lassa fever convalescent plasma in Nigeria

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 1984
Lassa fever convalescent plasma (LFCP) has been administered to 27 patients in hospitals at Jos and Vom, Nigeria. Among serologically or virologically confirmed cases of Lassa fever (LF) given plasma on or before the 10th day, all eight survived, as did two of three possible LF cases.
J D, Frame   +3 more
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Convalescent Plasma for Immunocompromised Patients

COVID-19 convalescent plasma (CCP) is an important therapeutic option for immunocompromised patients with COVID-19. Such patients are at increased risk for serious complications of infection and may also develop a unique syndrome of persistent infection.
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Convalescent plasma and COVID-19 treatment

Minerva Medica, 2023
Beuy, Joob, Viroj, Wiwanitkit
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Use of convalescent plasma in Ebola virus infection

Transfusion and Apheresis Science, 2017
The recent Ebola virus epidemics which threatened three West African countries (Dec.2014-Apr.2016) has urged global collaborative health organizations and countries to set up measures to stop the infection and to treat patients, near half of them being at risk of death.
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The Safety Profile of COVID-19 Convalescent Plasma

Despite concerns about potential side effects, based both on historical experience with plasma products and more recent concerns about contemporary use of plasma, COVID-19 convalescent plasma has been shown to be a very safe product. Research early in the COVID-19 pandemic documented-among the very large population of convalescent plasma recipients in ...
Michael J, Joyner   +3 more
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