In pediatric emergency medicine, sedation is crucial for performing some therapeutic procedures in children. Ketamine is still not widely used, despite being the preferred agent due to its effectiveness and safety profile. Implementing a guideline for intravenous ketamine in emergencies requiring procedural sedation in children, as well as training and evaluating staff competencies in performing this procedure, are the aims of this study.
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View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The literature on the ethics of biobanking often overlooks the practical operations of biobanks. The ethics of stewardship requires that biobank resources are used to conduct beneficial science. Networked biobanks have emerged to increase the scientific benefit of biobank resources, but little is known about whether and how operations of networking may accomplish this goal.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn avascular wound repair, calcium signaling events are the predominant mechanism cells use to transduce information about stressors in the environment into an effective and coordinated migratory response. Live cell imaging and computational analysis of corneal epithelial wound healing revealed that signal initiation and propagation at the wound edge are highly ordered, with groups of cells engaging in cyclical patterns of initiation and propagation. The cells in these groups exhibit a diverse range of signaling behavior, and dominant "conductor cells" drive activity in groups of lower-signaling neighbors.
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