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The sensitivity of the human thirst response to changes in plasma osmolality: a systematic review

Perioperative Medicine, 2018
Background Dehydration is highly prevalent and is associated with adverse cardiovascular and renal events. Clinical assessment of dehydration lacks sensitivity. Perhaps a patient’s thirst can provide an accurate guide to fluid therapy.
Fintan Hughes, Monty Mythen, Hugh Montgomery   +2 more
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Effectiveness of thirst intervention package on thirst intensity and thirst distress among patients of heart failure with fluid restriction at a tertiary care center

Heart India
Background: Heart failure (HF) is a global burden since it is a widespread, expensive, and potentially life-threatening illness. Thirst is one of the most common symptoms of HF as well a major concern for patients.
Farah Naaz, Suchana Roy Bhowmik, Akshyaya Pradhan   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Assessment of the thirst dimension: integrative review

Revista Eletrônica de Enfermagem, 2017
Thirst is a multifactorial and subjective symptom that request multiple measuring instruments. The objective of this study was to identify the assessment dimensions of thirst and the measurement tools used.
Pamela Rafaela Martins, Lígia Fahl Fonseca   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Adipsic hypernatremia in a young sudanese child, challenges in a limited-resource setting: a case report

The Pan African Medical Journal, 2021
Adipsia is a rare condition characterized by a lack of thirst due to a defect in specific osmoreceptors located in the hypothalamus. The disorder is characterized by failure to maintain the body’s normal plasma osmolality (POSM), resulting in chronic or ...
Mohammed Abdulrahman Alhassan, Asmahan Tagelsir Abdalla, Samar Sabir Hassan, Mohamed Ahmed Abdullah   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Thirst management: perspective of burnt surgical patient

Semina: Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde, 2022
Objective: explore thirst perception of a burnt surgical patient and its management in the preoperative and immediate postoperative period. Case report: study with a qualitative and exploratory approach, named as case study.
Renata Pires de Arruda Faggion, Roberto Emanuel Bueno Ferreira, Aline Korki Arrabal Garcia, Isadora Pierotti, Marilia Ferrari Conchon, Lígia Fahl Fonseca   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Dietary Protein Intake and Peritoneal Protein Losses in Peritoneal Dialysis Patients

Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Peritoneal dialysis (PD) patients lose protein in their waste dialysate, potentially increasing their risk for malnutrition. We wished to determine whether there was any association between losses and dietary protein intake (DPI). Methods DPI was assessed from 24‐h dietary recall using Nutrics software.
Haalah Shaaker, Andrew Davenport
wiley   +1 more source

Analysis of Traditional Chinese Medicine Constitutions Attributable to the Burden of Wasting Thirst Disorder among the Middle-aged and Older adults in Guangzhou Based on ICD-11 [PDF]

Zhongguo quanke yixue
Background The 72nd World Health Assembly reviewed and adopted the International Classification of Diseases Eleventh Revision (ICD-11) , which for the first time included traditional medicine originating from traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) in its ...
ZHAO Lanhui, GAO Jing, ZHOU Shangcheng
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The Effect of Oral Honey Syrup (ma-ol-asal) Consumption on Preoperative Thirst and Hunger before Surgery and Hemodynamic Symptoms in Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy Patients: A Double-Blind Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial [PDF]

Journal of Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, 2023
Background and purpose: Laparoscopic cholecystectomy is known as the standard treatment for inflammatory diseases of the gallbladder. This surgical method causes complications in the patients. To prevent gastric aspiration during anesthesia, long fasting
Sahar Qorban-Shamsi, Ebrahim Nasiri-Formi, Seyed Ezzatollah Hosseini Hashemi, Peyman Asghari, Abolfazl Hossein Nataj   +4 more
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Sermon at the Holy Communion [PDF]

, 1981
(Excerpt) I have been told that when you are dying of thirst, you crave salt--not water, but salt. Your last efforts are spent seeking desperately that very thing which will hasten your end. So it is, I fear, with all of our terrible thirsts.
Niedner, Frederick A, Jr.
core   +1 more source

Ideal Molecular Sieving with a Dense MOF for Helium Upgrading with Highly Diffusion Selective Mixed Matrix Membranes

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
The separation of Helium gas from natural gas is challenging but highly important. MIL‐116(Ga), a “non‐porous” metal–organic framework is used as a molecular sieve to separate He from CH4. Druse‐like MIL‐116(Ga) particles are integrated into polysulfone mixed matrix membranes.
Ayisha Komal, Laura Calderón‐Rodríguez, Oksana Smirnova, Eren Grossmann, Aparna Binu Varghese, Karen Marlenne Garcia Alvarez, Andreas Schneemann, Thomas Hoyer, Ralf Wyrwa, Felix Helmut Schacher, Alexander Knebel   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source