Exposures and suspected intoxications during SARS-CoV-2 pandemic: preliminary results from an Italian poison control centre.

Data on cleaner and disinfectant exposure and misuse-related acute intoxications in Italy during SARS-CoV-2 pandemic are still lacking. The aim of the present study was to analyse and describe cleaner and disinfectant-related intoxications during SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in an Italian poison control centre. Data were obtained from the toxicological consultations requested to the Toxicology Unit and Poison Centre, Careggi University Hospital, Florence (Italy).

Development and evaluation of a web-based capacity building course in the EUR-HUMAN project to support primary health care professionals in the provision of high-quality care for refugees and migrants.

Background: The ongoing refugee crisis has revealed the need for enhancing primary health care (PHC) professionals' skills and training.

Objectives: The aim was to strengthen PHC professionals in European countries in the provision of high-quality care for refugees and migrants by offering a concise modular training that was based on the needs of the refugees and PHC professionals as shown by prior research in the EUR-HUMAN project.

Methods: We developed, piloted, and evaluated an online capacity building course of 8 stand-alone modules containing information about acute health issues of refugees, legal issues, provider-patient communication and cultural aspects of health and illness, mental health, sexual and reproductive health, child health, chronic diseases, health promotion, and prevention.

Respiratory rate assessments using a dual-accelerometer device.

Monitoring of respiration-related thoracic movements may be useful to assess respiratory rate (RR) objectively. RR was measured during spontaneous breathing, voluntarily modified breathing, and exercise hyperpnoea in normal subjects via visual inspection, spirometry and a pair of accelerometers positioned on the torso. Spirometric and accelerometric values of RR recorded during relaxed breathing were (mean±SD) 21.

Photoresponses of the compound eye of the sandhopper Talitrus saltator (Crustacea, Amphipoda) in the ultraviolet-blue range.

The semi-terrestrial sandhopper Talitrus saltator uses celestial visual cues to orient along the sea-land axis of the beach. Previous spectral-filtering experiments suggested that it perceives directional information from wavelengths in the ultraviolet (UV)-blue range. Binary choice experiments between dark and UV (380-nm) light carried out on dark-adapted individuals of T.

Thyroid and hypoxic stress in the newt Triturus carnifex.

When specimens of the newt Triturus carnifex, under anaesthesia by submersion in a 0.2% chlorbutol solution for 25 min, are isolated in a respiratory chamber at 18 degrees C containing water with only 1.3 ppm of oxygen, they consume the oxygen completely in about 3 hr, but they can stay alive for many more hours and wake up with no apparent exterior consequences.