Importance: Parents who experience neonatal loss have the option to participate in autopsy, organ donation, and research donation. However, clinicians are uncomfortable discussing autopsy and may not be aware of research and organ donation opportunities.
Objective: To capture the perspectives of parents who had experienced neonatal loss about autopsy, organ donation, and research donation.
School meals present several cost benefits overtime at the short, medium, and long term for individuals and society. This cross-sectional study aims to analyse the nutritional composition and evaluate the adequacy of school lunches. One hundred and fifty-eight samples were collected and analysed from 10 primary schools in Sintra's municipality, served during one week.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSepsis is a rapidly progressing, severe inflammatory response to infection, causing more than 200,000 deaths per year. Rapid, specific pathogen identification is important to guide sepsis treatment. In this review, we describe and compare currently available commercial products for sepsis diagnosis and pathogen identification, based on microbiological, molecular, and mass spectrometric technologies.
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