Publications by authors named "C Beaver"
Importance: Delirium is common after cardiac surgery and associated with adverse outcomes. Intraoperative benzodiazepines may increase postoperative delirium but restricting intraoperative benzodiazepines has not yet been evaluated in a randomized trial.
Objective: To determine whether an institutional policy of restricted intraoperative benzodiazepine administration reduced the incidence of postoperative delirium.
The 18 Workshop on Recent Issues in Bioanalysis (18 WRIB) took place in San Antonio, TX, USA on May 6-10, 2024. Over 1100 professionals representing pharma/biotech companies, CROs, and multiple regulatory agencies convened to actively discuss the most current topics of interest in bioanalysis. The 18 WRIB included 3 Main Workshops and 7 Specialized Workshops that together spanned 1 week to allow an exhaustive and thorough coverage of all major issues in bioanalysis of biomarkers, immunogenicity, gene therapy, cell therapy and vaccines.
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- Wastewater can help scientists understand public health by showing how germs and viruses are present in communities over time and space.
- Researchers studied wastewater in Miami Dade County from 2020 to 2022 to track different viruses and bacteria, linking them to COVID-19 cases in hospitals and universities.
- They found harmful germs and bacteria in the water, showing connections between wastewater, human health, and the use of antibiotics, which can help improve public health decisions in the future.
Breaking the habit: isolating nicotine-degrading bacteria in undergraduate microbiology teaching labs.
J Microbiol Biol Educ
August 2024
Nicotine is a major alkaloid in tobacco plants and an addictive component of tobacco products. Some bacteria grow on tobacco plants and have evolved the ability to metabolize nicotine. As part of our microbiology teaching lab, we used minimal media with nicotine as the sole carbon source to isolate nicotine-degrading bacteria from tobacco leaves and commercial tobacco products.
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- - Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) is used to monitor COVID-19 infections by detecting SARS-CoV-2 RNA in wastewater, with the effectiveness possibly changing due to virus mutations over time.
- - This study examined wastewater samples from the University of Miami and Miami-Dade County across different COVID-19 variant periods, comparing RNA levels to clinical COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations.
- - While correlations were generally strong, they varied by variant; the Omicron period showed a steeper relationship between wastewater RNA levels and case numbers, while the Initial wave had the strongest correlation for hospitalizations.