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Preventing High-Pressure Injection Injury: A Hazard of Hydraulics and Pneumatics [PDF]

, 2019
[Excerpt] A high-pressure injection injury involves air, fluid, or solids forced into the skin by high pressure. Typically these occur when we feel for leaks with our fingers, such as when air or hot hydraulic fluid is forced into the skin by high ...
Brown, Nellie J
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Fibrinogen Changes Before and After Intravenous Thrombolysis as Predictors of Cerebral Injury and Clinical Outcomes in Acute Ischemic Stroke: A Multicenter Prospective Cohort Study

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Plasma fibrinogen is essential in thrombosis and fibrinolysis, yet its dynamic changes pre‐ and post‐intravenous thrombolysis (IVT) for predicting brain injury severity and prognosis in acute ischemic stroke (AIS) patients remain unclear.
Wenhai Zhai, Yang Qu, Reziya Abuduxukuer, Kejia Zhang, Peng Zhang, Xin Tang, Huaimei Zhang, Lijuan Wang, Lichong Yang, Shuangxu Tan, Zhimei Yuan, Ce Han, Lili He, Yuping Zheng, Fenglan Zhao, Lijie Guo, Ligang Jiang, Jinfeng Li, Yongfei Jiang, Xuexia Zou, Dan Xu, Han Xu, Xiaojia Wang, Yingbin Qi, Xuefeng Hu, Yu Zhang, Zhen‐Ni Guo, Hang Jin, on behalf of the Biomarkers of Brain Injury Investigator Study Group   +28 more
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How to deal with an open abdomen? [PDF]

, 2015
Appropriate open abdomen treatment is one of the key elements in the management of patients who require decompressive laparotomy or in whom the abdomen is left open prophylactically.
Bjorck, Martin, De Waele, Jan, Kaplan, Mark, Sibaja, Pablo, Sugrue, Michael   +4 more
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Changes in Immune‐Inflammation Status and Acute Ischemic Stroke Prognosis in Prospective Cohort

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Inflammation is a critical risk factor for poor outcomes in cerebral infarction. Prior studies focused primarily on baseline inflammation status, neglecting dynamic longitudinal changes. We try to investigate the association between immune‐inflammation status alterations and stroke prognosis, and evaluated three systemic biomarkers'
Songfang Chen, Wenting Huang, Yitian Liu, Xuan Chen, Buyu Ke, Qian Shen, Hanyu Cai, Jing Sun, Yan Li, Yungang Cao, Beilei Hu, Keyang Chen   +11 more
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Pressure injury prevalence in critical care settings: An observational pre‐post intervention study

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Aim To explore pressure injury prevention practices and evaluate the impact of an educational intervention on PI prevalence before and after an educational intervention. Design A multi‐centre observational study.
Bassam Alshahrani, Rebekkah Middleton, Kaye Rolls, Jenny Sim   +3 more
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Advancements in the Mechanism and Application of Electrical Stimulation forPreventing and Treating Pressure Injuries

Guoji laonian yixue zazhi
Pressure injury have emerged as a significant public health concern in societies with increasing elderly populations.Electrostimulation stands out as a non-invasive and proactive microenvironmental intervention for both the prevention and treatment of ...
Linyan Yuan, Menghang Wu, Xiaoyan Liu, Xue Yang, Lingli Li   +4 more
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The Effects of Malpractice Pressure and Liability Reforms on Physicians’ Perceptions of Medical Care [PDF]

, 1997
Considerable evidence suggests that the medical malpractice liability system neither provides compensation to patients who suffer negligent medical injury nor seeks to penalize physicians whose negligence causes patient injury.
Kessler, Daniel P., McClellan, Mark B.
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Transient limb ischemia induces remote ischemic preconditioning in vivo [PDF]

, 2002
Background-Ischemic preconditioning reduces local tissue injury caused by subsequent ischemia-reperfusion (IR), but may also have a salutary effect on IR injury of tissues remote from those undergoing preconditioning.
Hoschtitzky, JA, Kharbanda, RK, Kristiansen, SB, MacAllister, R, Mortensen, UM, Redington, AN, Schmidt, MR, Sorensen, K, Vogel, M, White, PA   +9 more
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Acoustic Measures Capture Speech Dysfunction in Spinocerebellar Ataxia

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Spinocerebellar ataxias (SCA) are hereditary cerebellar degenerative disorders with a common feature of dysarthria, involving impaired phonatory and articulatory control of speech, thereby affecting social communication. In this study, we investigated whether acoustic measures could objectively measure speech dysfunction and identify
Zena Fadel, Charlotte Hennessey, Hannah Lee, Pia Parekh, Sheng‐Han Kuo, Ami Kumar   +5 more
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Pressure Ulcer Prevention System [PDF]

, 2018
Pressure ulcers, also known as bedsores, are a widespread but often understated problem. A pressure ulcer is an injury that develops with constant pressure on an area of skin for a long time.
Palomares, Rey-David, Rao, Ojus
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