Development and Characterization of Hemoglobin Microbubbles for Acoustic Blood Oxygen Level Dependent Imaging.

Oxygen levels in tissues and organs are crucial for their normal functioning, and approaches to monitor them non-invasively have wide biological and clinical applications. In this study, we developed a method of acoustically detecting oxygenation using contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) imaging. Our approach involved the use of specially designed hemoglobin-based microbubbles (HbMBs) that reversibly bind to oxygen and alter the state-dependent acoustic response.

Delayed Emergence in Pediatric Patients with Neurologic Disease Presenting for Ambulatory Surgery.

Objectives: Management of pediatric patients with neurological diagnoses can be challenging for anesthesiologists. We sought to determine whether preexisting neurologic disease could serve as an intrinsic risk factor for prolonged emergence.

Methods: Following institutional review board approval, we conducted a database search from 2012 to 2015.

Influence of body position on severity of obstructive sleep apnea: a systematic review.

Aim. The aim of this review is to determine the relationship between sleeping body posture and severity of obstructive sleep apnea. This relationship has been investigated in the past.

Cryopreservation of Lomandra sonderi (Asparagaceae) shoot tips using droplet-vitrification.

A cryopreservation protocol was developed for Lomandra sonderi (Asparagaceae), an endemic plant of southwest Western Australia used for mine site restoration. Thermal analysis of L. sonderi shoot tips using differential scanning calorimetry was used to detect the formation of ice in shoot tips and consequently allowed optimisation of the time of incubation in plant vitrification solution 2 (PVS2), which attempted to minimise phytotoxicity of, and excessive dehydration by, its cryoprotective components.