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Durable mechanical circulatory support in paediatric heart failure: The experience at Great Ormond Street Hospital

open access: yesCirugía Cardiovascular, 2019
Durable ventricular assist devices (VAD), despite being a standard therapy for adults in end-stage heart failure, are not so extended among the paediatric population for some reasons.
Ana Redondo   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Advances in Sustainable and Wearable Textile Based Soft Robotics

open access: yesAdvanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This Review examines advances in wearable textile‐based soft robotics, focusing on sustainable materials, integrated sensing, and scalable actuation. It discusses manufacturing and system integration across healthcare, assistive robotics, prosthetics, and human–machine interfaces, and highlights key challenges in circular design, including life‐cycle ...
Zahir Abbas   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Creating innovation in lymphoedema nursing through collaboration [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Against a background of fiscal and regulatory pressure to rationalize and justify health-care interventions, there is an underlying political message that greater cooperation and collaboration would improve health-care for all.
Davies, R., Jones, J.
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From the field: Educating DR patients on gaining better diabetes control

open access: yesCommunity Eye Health Journal, 2015
As part of the Vision 2020 Links Programme, a team from the Diabetes Eye Screening Department at Homerton University Hospital in London, UK visited the University Hospital of West Indies (UHWI) in Kingston, Jamaica in June 2015.
Zhara Gregory
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Functional Blood‐Brain Barrier Crossing by Biomimetic M13 Phage Vectors for Targeted Neuronal Delivery

open access: yesAdvanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
This study investigates the M13 bacteriophage as a biomimetic nanovector capable of crossing in vitro models of the blood–brain barrier. By exploiting peculiar transcellular pathways, M13 avoids lysosomal degradation and preserves its structural integrity and functionality.
Silvia Vercellino   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Shadow‐Free Back‐Contact Perovskite Thin‐Film Detectors for Direct Extreme‐Ultraviolet and Soft X‐Ray Sensing

open access: yesAdvanced Materials Interfaces, EarlyView.
A triple‐cation perovskite detector with a quasi‐interdigitated back‐contact architecture enables highly sensitive and linear EUV/soft x‐ray detection by minimizing electrode shadowing and enhancing charge extraction. Efficient interfacial carrier collection and rapid temporal response highlight the potential of back‐contact‐engineered perovskites for ...
Jingying Liu   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The cancer nurse coordinator service in Western Australia: Perspectives of specialist cancer nurse coordinators

open access: yes, 2016
Objective: In Western Australia the cancer nurse coordinator (CNC) role is unique, state wide and situated in nursing. It requires the domains of clinical expert, resource consultant, educator, change agent, researcher and advocate to facilitate seamless
Platt, V   +9 more
core   +1 more source

Lived experiences of an advanced practice nurse in a rural New Zealand emergency department [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Advanced practice nursing signifies those roles encompassing a more complex level than traditionally accepted for a registered nurse (Sheer & Wong, 2008). They are distinguished by the autonomy to practice at the edges of the ever-expanding nursing role,
Stratton, Jenny
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Perceived stress levels and professional quality of life aspects among nurses during COVID-19 pandemic in Saudi Arabia

open access: yesInternational Journal of Africa Nursing Sciences
Background: Frontline healthcare personnel treating patients with COVID-19 were observed to have an increased susceptibility to a low professional quality of life compared to those dealing with non-COVID-19 patients.
Sleiman Rabee, Abd Alhadi Hasan
doaj   +1 more source

The development of a model for dealing with secondary traumatic stress in mental health workers in Rwanda

open access: yesHealth SA Gesondheid: Journal of Interdisciplinary Health Sciences, 2015
Introduction: Mental health workers who listen to stories of fear, pain and distress of traumatised clients may develop deleterious emotional, cognitive and physical consequences (Cairns, 2007). This phenomenon has been called secondary traumatic stress (
Jean D. Iyamuremye, Petra Brysiewicz
doaj   +1 more source

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