Publications by authors named "A Brase"
Nonrigid forms of motion are commonplace in everyday life. Given previously documented age-related deteriorations in various tasks involving motion (discriminating speed, identifying motion direction, etc.), an experiment was conducted to evaluate the potential effect of age upon the visual ability to detect rigid and nonrigid object motion.
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- The study aimed to evaluate the impact of laser acupuncture on postoperative pain in women after a cesarean section, using a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled design.
- 99 women participated, receiving either active or placebo laser treatments over three days, while pain severity and other factors like analgesic use and recovery time were monitored.
- The results showed no significant differences in pain levels, medication use, or recovery time between the two groups, concluding that laser acupuncture did not effectively reduce postoperative pain in this context.
A Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)-specific Hospital-at-Home was implemented in a 400-bed tertiary hospital in Barcelona, Spain. Senior or immune-compromised physicians oversaw patient care. The alternative to inpatient care more than doubled beds available for hospitalization and decreased the risk of transmission among patients and health care professionals.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective Admission hyponatremia is related to poor outcomes in patients with heart failure (HF). Few studies have examined the influence of hyponatremia in the prognosis of HF patients without previous admissions. Our aim is to determine whether baseline hyponatremia predicts worse outcomes in a cohort of real-world HF patients admitted because of a first episode of acute HF.
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