Effect of different compression bandaging techniques on the healing rate of venous leg ulcers: a literature review.

Venous leg ulcers (VLUs) are a common health problem in older adults, for which the widely used method of treatment includes compression therapy. There are various compression bandages and hosiery systems available for use, but it remains unclear as to which types of compression systems are most effective in enabling healing of VLUs. This study aimed to determine which type of the two most commonly used compression bandaging (four-layer and two-layer) is more effective in providing complete ulcer healing of VLUs.

IMPULSE Moment-by-Moment Test: An Implicit Measure of Affective Responses to Audiovisual Televised or Digital Advertisements.

IMPULSE is a novel method for detecting affective responses to dynamic audiovisual content. It is an implicit reaction time test that is carried out while an audiovisual clip (e.g.

Providing Excellent Consumer Service Is Therapeutic: Insights from an Implicit Association Neuromarketing Study.

This paper reports the results of a combined biometric and implicit affective priming study of the emotional consequences of being the provider or receiver of either positive or negative customer service experiences. The study was conducted in two stages. Study 1 captured the moment-by-moment implicit emotional and physiological responses associated with receiving and providing good customer service.

Evaluation of a CO2 partial rebreathing functional residual capacity measurement method for use during mechanical ventilation.

Objective: There is a need for an automated bedside functional residual capacity (FRC) measurement method that does not require a step change in inspired oxygen fraction. Such a method can be used for patients who require a high inspired oxygen fraction to maintain arterial oxygenation and for patients ventilated using a circle breathing system commonly found in operating rooms, which is not capable of step changes in oxygen. We developed a CO(2) rebreathing method for FRC measurement that is based on the change in partial pressure of end-tidal carbon dioxide and volume of CO(2) eliminated at the end of a partial rebreathing period.

Measurement of functional residual capacity by modified multiple breath nitrogen washout for spontaneously breathing and mechanically ventilated patients.

Background: There is a need for a bedside functional residual capacity (FRC) measurement method that performs well in intensive care patients during many modes of ventilation including controlled, assisted, spontaneous, and mixed. We developed a modified multiple breath nitrogen washout method for FRC measurement that relies on end-tidal gas fractions and alveolar tidal volume measurements as inputs but does not require the traditional measurements of volume of nitrogen or oxygen. Using end-tidal measurements, not volume, reduces errors from signal synchronization.