Publications by authors named "Emma Harmon"
Background: The 2019 coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak was declared a global pandemic in March 2020. It quickly spread across all continents, causing significant social, environmental, health, and economic impacts. During the pandemic, there has been consideration of repurposing and repositioning of medications, such as corticosteroids, for the treatment of hospitalised COVID-19 patients.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA new patient transfer assessment scale for use in inpatient rehabilitation facilities (IRFs) is warranted to assess level of assistance, adaptations needed for success, and movement strategies. This study presents initial psychometric analyses for the Comprehensive Inpatient Transfer Tool (CITT). CITT items were developed through interdisciplinary team discussions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFProteins and their mimics that contain negatively charged sequences are important in natural and biomimetic mineralization. The mechanism by which these sequences affect calcium phosphate mineralization is not well understood. Here, peptides containing different numbers of repeat units of contiguous glutamic acid residues, oligo(l-glutamic acid) ( = 3, 7, 8, 10), were investigated with regards to the mechanism in delaying the crystallization of amorphous calcium phosphate (ACP) while holding the amount of carboxylic acid groups in solution constant.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe understanding of calcium phosphate precipitation is of major interest in different fields of science, including medicine, biomaterials, and physical chemistry. The presence of additive biomacromolecules has been known to influence various stages of the precipitation process from nucleation to crystal growth. In the current work, well-defined sequences of short, negatively charged peptides, oligo(l-glutamic acids), were utilized as a model, inspired by contiguous sequences of acidic amino acids in natural biomineralization proteins.
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- The objective of the study was to train staff and implement a new stroke rehabilitation method called Modified Approach to Stroke Rehabilitation (MAStR) that focuses on using procedural memory instead of explicit memory, which is often compromised in stroke patients.
- The MAStR method simplifies instructions to just three words and ensures that all staff use the same approach, leading to better consistency and practice during patient transfers.
- Results showed that 31 staff members were trained in 15 minutes, five stroke patients experienced no injuries or negative feedback with this approach, and everyone involved reported a positive experience, indicating the method’s feasibility for further research.