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Trials, 2018 Background The reported incidence of peripheral intravenous catheter (PIV) failure has been as high as 69%. This is in part due to inadequate stabilisation or securement to the skin, which allows micro-motion of the catheter within the vein.
Nicole Marsh +7 more
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Data centers, the material backbone of smart cities, power the digital economy and advanced digital services. Metaphors of ‘the cloud’ and ‘cloud computing’ obscure the massive computing and storage infrastructures, the resource flows and the land uses they mediate.
Jochen Monstadt, Katherine Saltzman
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The use of wet-to-dry dressings for mechanical debridement [PDF]
, 2013 Clinical management of complex wounds is essential to promote wound healing. Prolonged healing time may lead to longer and more costly hospitalizations and poorer patient outcomes. The removal of nonviable, necrotic tissue via debridement is vital to the
Villa, Katherine
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Skin graft donor site: a procedure for a faster healing [PDF]
, 2017 Background: The authors want to evaluate the efficacy of fibrillary tabotamp dressing in skin graftdonor site. A comparison was made with Vaseline gauzes.
Brandi, Cesare +4 more
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Hydrogel Dressings as Insulin Delivery Systems for Diabetic Wounds
Frontiers in Bioscience-EliteDiabetic wounds are one of the most common and challenging complications of diabetes. Similar to chronic wounds, diabetic wounds are difficult to treat due to prolonged inflammation, a lack of angiogenesis, abnormal differentiation of new scar tissue ...
Agnieszka Kłapcia +1 more
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Effectiveness of double tie-over dressing compared with bolster dressing
Archives of Plastic Surgery, 2018 Background Skin grafting is a commonly performed operation in plastic and reconstructive surgery. The tie-over dressing is an effective technique to secure the grafted skin by delivering persistent downward pressure. However, if an additional
Seo Hyung Lee, Yu Jin Kim
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A Randomized Control Trial of The Effectiveness of OpSite Wound Versus lV. 3000 In Maintaining An Occlusive Central Line Dressing [PDF]
, 1991 The use of both percutaneous and tunnelled central venous catheters in hospitalized patients has increased markedly over the last decade (Camp-Sorrell, 1990).
Neufeld, Marilyn
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A randomized clinical trial comparing hydrocolloid, phenytoin and simple dressings for the treatment of pressure ulcers [ISRCTN33429693] [PDF]
, 2004 BACKGROUND: Pressure sores are important and common complications of spinal cord injury. Many preventive and therapeutic approaches have been tried and new trials are evolving.
A Alm +48 more
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Death and Nationalism's Moral Imperative: The Battle for Britain, Industry and the ‘Left Behind’
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper is concerned with how nationalism is convened and condensed in this moment by exploring the function of loss and death and their centrality to nationalism's articulation. The discussion attempts to make sense of how death possesses an ideological currency that wields an alluring quality and equips nationalism with a moral imperative.
Bethan Harries
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MirrorFlow: Exploiting Symmetries in Joint Optical Flow and Occlusion Estimation [PDF]
arXiv, 2017 Optical flow estimation is one of the most studied problems in computer vision, yet recent benchmark datasets continue to reveal problem areas of today's approaches. Occlusions have remained one of the key challenges. In this paper, we propose a symmetric optical flow method to address the well-known chicken-and-egg relation between optical flow and ...
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