Evaluation of the Fight BAC! The Story of Your Dinner Campaign Video: A Multistate Study.

Abstract: This study was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of the holiday food safety campaign, "The Story of Your Dinner," launched in 2016 by the Partnership for Food Safety Education. The campaign was designed to change knowledge, risk perception, and perceived behavioral control ideas among U.S.

High Variance in Pupillary Examination Findings Among Postanesthesia Care Unit Nurses.

Purpose: On arrival to the postanesthesia care unit (PACU), patients are observed closely for significant neurological status changes. In particular, patients require frequent neurological examinations, which include assessment of the pupils for changes and/or abnormalities.

Design: This is a prospective, nonrandomized, observational study to examine the findings of pupillary examinations by nurses using different light sources in patients with existing pupillary assessments as ordered by standard of care.

Toward a Unified Treatment for Emotional Disorders - Republished Article.

Over 40 years of development of cognitive behavioral approaches to treating anxiety and related emotional disorders have left us with highly efficacious treatments that are increasingly widely accepted. Nevertheless, these manualized protocols have become numerous and somewhat complex, restricting effective training and dissemination. Deepening understanding of the nature of emotional disorders reveals that commonalities in etiology and latent structure among these disorders supercedes differences.

Impact of Video Laryngoscopy on Advanced Airway Management by Critical Care Transport Paramedics and Nurses Using the CMAC Pocket Monitor.

Accurate endotracheal intubation for patients in extremis or at risk of physiologic decompensation is the gold standard for emergency medicine. Field intubation is a complex process and time to intubation, number of attempts, and hypoxia have all been shown to correlate with increases in morbidity and mortality. Expanding laryngoscope technology which incorporates active video, in addition to direct laryngoscopy, offers providers improved and varied tools to employ in management of the advanced airway.

Pulse pressure and arterial compliance prior to pregnancy and the development of complicated hypertension during pregnancy.

We examined the relationship between prepregnant pulse pressure (PP), mean arterial pressure (MAP), cardiac output (CO)/PP, a measure of arterial compliance, and development of complicated hypertension (CH) during pregnancy with the goal of identifying a potential predictor of CH. Twenty nulliparous participants were studied before pregnancy; 17 had normal pregnancies (control; CTL) and 3 CH. Blood pressure monitoring was performed using tonometry.

Chlorido(η-1,5-cyclo-octa-diene)[(penta-fluoro-eth-yl)diphenyl-phosphane]iridium(I).

The title structure,[IrCl(C(8)H(12))(C(14)H(10)F(5)P)], reveals that (C(2)F(5))PPh(2) (penta-fluoro-ethyl-diphenyl-phosphane or pfepp) disrupts the iridium dimer [(cod)IrCl](2) (cod = cyclo-octa-1,5-diene) by rupturing the bridging chloride ligands and binding in the open coordination site to form (cod)Ir(pfepp)Cl with the Ir(I) atom in a distorted square-planar coordination environment. The structure deviates very little from the Ir(I)-triphenyl-phosphine analog, although a significantly (∼20σ) shorter Ir-P bond is noted for the title compound.

Emergence of Streptococcus pneumoniae with very-high-level resistance to penicillin.

Penicillin resistance threatens the treatment of pneumococcal infections. We used sentinel hospital surveillance (1978 to 2001) and population-based surveillance (1995 to 2001) in seven states in the Active Bacterial Core surveillance of the Emerging Infections Program Network to document the emergence in the United States of invasive pneumococcal isolates with very-high-level penicillin resistance (MIC > or = 8 microg/ml). Very-high-level penicillin resistance was first detected in 1995 in multiple pneumococcal serotypes in three regions of the United States.

Scotopic sensitivity: relation to age, dietary patterns, and smoking status.

Purpose: Although previous data suggest that rod-mediated sensitivity decreases with age, this decrease may be insignificant when only healthy individuals younger than 65 years are considered. In this study, we assess the relationship between age and scotopic sensitivity loss in subjects younger than 65 years to determine whether scotopic sensitivity losses can be detected when confounding factors are considered (including iris color, smoking status, and dietary patterns) and a large sample size is used.

Methods: A total of 121 subjects (aged 20 to 63 years) were tested under dark-adapted (scotopic) conditions.

T cells expressing the gamma delta T-cell receptor potentiate coxsackievirus B3-induced myocarditis.

Initial studies determined whether intraperitoneal (i.p.) injection of BALB/c mice with 0.

Infrared wheelchair controls.

A joystick controlled wheelchair can be an awkward steering apparatus for a person with poor motor skills. An alternate steering apparatus would be a set of four sensors placed underneath a wheelchair's lapboard. There would be one set of sensors for each direction the wheelchair can move.

Early asymptomatic lead exposure and development at school age.

Sixty-seven 7-year-old children, who had asymptomatic lead exposure between 1 and 3 years of age, were compared in their performance on a series of psychologic tests to 70 children of the same age and socioeconomic background who presumably did not have significant exposure to lead. Exposed children had deficits in global IQ and associative abilities, in visual and fine motor coordination, and in behavior. School failure due to learning and behavior problems was more frequent in the lead exposed than in the control group.