[Assessment of teleradiology patients in a major regional hospital].

Purpose: To evaluate teleradiology examinations regarding the most frequently requested exams and examined body regions. Additionally, the frequency of pathological changes depending on the examined region and clinical situation as well as the time profile for requesting teleradiology (daytime, day of the week) were analyzed.

Materials And Methods: A retrospective analysis of all consecutive teleradiology exams in 2018 that were reported in the radiology department of a major regional hospital and scanned in three referring primary health care institutions regarding clinical history, working diagnosis and requested body region was performed.

Ketamine inhibits transcription factors activator protein 1 and nuclear factor-kappaB, interleukin-8 production, as well as CD11b and CD16 expression: studies in human leukocytes and leukocytic cell lines.

Background: Recent data indicate that ketamine exerts antiinflammatory actions. However, little is known about the signaling mechanisms involved in ketamine-induced immune modulation. In this study, we investigated the effects of ketamine on lipopolysaccharide-induced activation of transcription factors activator protein 1 (AP-1) and nuclear factor-kappaB (NF-kappaB) in human leukocyte-like cell lines and in human blood neutrophils.

A comprehensive study of survival, tissue damage, and neurological dysfunction in a murine model of cardiopulmonary resuscitation after potassium-induced cardiac arrest.

There are only few strategic and therapeutic options to improve the functional outcome of patients after cardiac arrest and resuscitation (CPR). The pathophysiology of reperfusion injury after global ischemia is not completely understood. We present here a murine model of cardiac arrest and resuscitation that allows an analysis of the pathophysiology of reperfusion injury, especially focusing on survival, tissue damage, and functional neurological parameters.

Are women more sensitive to a pre-curarization dose of rocuronium than men?

Background: There is increasing evidence that there are gender-related differences in the pharmacodynamics of neuromuscular blocking drugs. However, it is not known whether gender influences the pharmacodynamics of a pre-curarizing dose.

Methods: In the first part, we measured the neuromuscular blockade after administration of rocuronium 0.