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Laryngoscopic Examination During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Turkish Voice Speech and Swallowing Disorders Society and Turkish Professional Voice Society Recommendations

Turkish Archives of Otorhinolaryngology, 2020
COVID-19 is highly transmissible and spreads rapidly in the population. This increases the occupational risk for health care workers. In otolaryngology clinic practice, patients with upper respiratory tract infection symptoms are common.
H. Bengü Çobanoğlu, Necati Enver, Sevtap Akbulut, E. Özlem Atmış, Hakan Birkent, Çiler Büyükatalay, Erhan Demirhan, İlter Denizoğlu, Ramil Haşimli, Müge Özçelik Korkmaz, Selmin Karataylı Özgürsoy, Kayhan Öztürk, Ceki Paltura, Seher Şirin, Emel Çadallı Tatar, Arzu Tüzüner, Kürşat Yelken, H. Hakan Coşkun, Haldun Oğuz, Ferhan Öz   +19 more
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Comparison of strategies to reduce meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus rates in surgical patients: a controlled multicentre intervention trial. [PDF]

, 2016
Objective: To compare the effect of two strategies (enhanced hand hygiene vs meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) screening and decolonisation) alone and in combination on MRSA rates in surgical wards.
Brun-Buisson, Christian, Carevic, Biljana, Chalfine, Annie, Cooper, Ben S., Daikos, George L., Fankhauser, Carolina, Goossens, Herman, Harbarth, Stephan, Lee, Andie S., Lemmen, Sebastian, Malhotra-Kumar, Surbhi, Martínez, José Antonio (Martínez Martínez), Masuet Aumatell, Cristina, Pan, Angelo, Phillips, Gabby, Rubinovitch, Bina   +15 more
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AI‐Assisted IoT‐Enabled ECG Monitoring: Integrating Foundational and Generative AI Tools for Sustainable Smart Healthcare—Recent Trends

AI &Innovation, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The rapid evolution of the Internet of Things (IoT) has significantly advanced the field of electrocardiogram (ECG) monitoring, enabling real‐time, remote, and patient‐centric cardiac care. This paper presents a comprehensive survey of AI assisted IoT‐based ECG monitoring systems, focusing on the integration of emerging technologies such as ...
Amrita Choudhury, Kandarpa Kumar Sarma, Lachit Dutta   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Post-exposure prophylaxis among Ugandan nurses: “Accidents do happen”

International Journal of Africa Nursing Sciences, 2014
Purpose: In 2009 we conducted a study to explore Ugandan nurses’ practice of universal precautions while caring for persons living with HIV. During our interviews about universal precautions, nurses’ also shared their experience with post-exposure ...
J. Mill, E. Nderitu, S. Richter
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Bringing HIV Prevention to Scale: An Urgent Global Priority [PDF]

, 2007
Illustrates the need for a scaled-up HIV prevention response in order to stem the epidemic, describes impediments to HIV prevention efforts and examples of successful initiatives, and includes recommendations for governments, health agencies, and ...

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Intraspecific variation in stomatal architecture, gas exchange, and drought response of a dominant prairie grass sourced from broad climatic gradients

American Journal of Botany, EarlyView.
Abstract Premise Understanding how plant populations adapt to water limitation through stomatal traits is key to predicting drought responses. The dominant C4 grass Andropogon gerardi, distributed across sharp climate gradients in North America, offers an excellent focal species to study stomatal architecture (size and density).
Jack Sytsma, Allison Ricker, Helen Winters, Brian Maricle, Ryann Patterson, Kian Fogarty, Loretta Johnson   +6 more
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Commentary on Notification and Recordkeeping of Occupational Mesothelioma in India

American Journal of Industrial Medicine, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In India, some occupational diseases are notifiable under the Mines Act, 1952, and the Factories Act, 1948. Mesothelioma, primarily attributable to asbestos exposure, has been listed specifically as one of the notifiable diseases under the Mines Act, 1952, and is notifiable under the category of occupational cancer in the Factories Act, 1948 ...
Raja Singh, Arthur L. Frank
wiley   +1 more source

Attitude, Adherence, and Nursing Students\' Knowledge, about Preventive Standard Precautions of Blood Borne Diseases

پژوهان, 2019
Background and Objective: The risk of transmission of various infections, always threatened nursing students life and leads to a high cost for diagnosing and treatment of these diseases.
Azad Fatahi, Zahra Khalili, Maryam Seyedtabib   +2 more
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Do nursing students know and practise the Universal Precautions to prevent transmission of infectious agents?

Curationis, 2013
Background: Nursing students, like other healthcare students, are at high risk of occupational exposure to blood and bodily fluids. Studies have shown that use of the Universal Precautions(UPs) lowers this risk, but do students know and practise these ...
Lindy S. van der Berg, Felicity M. Daniels   +1 more
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Universal Precautions and Distrust [PDF]

Pain Medicine, 2006
Dear Sir: The letter by Drs. Gourlay and Heit highlights important issues regarding universal precautions for opioid therapies. They raise concern about the term “distrust” in relation to universal precautions, but support this concern by arguing that we should always screen for substance-use disorders.
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