Comprehensive Image Quality Evaluation and Motion Phantom Studies of an Ultra-Fast (6-Second) Cone-Beam Computed Tomography Imaging System on a Ring Gantry Linear Accelerator.

Purpose: To evaluate the image quality of an ultrafast cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) system-Varian HyperSight.

Methods And Materials: In this evaluation, 5 studies were performed to assess the image quality of HyperSight CBCT. First, a HyperSight CBCT image quality evaluation was performed and compared with Siemens simulation-CT and Varian TrueBeam CBCT.

Mixed-methods multicenter assessment of healthcare workers' knowledge, perceptions, and practices related to blood culture utilization in hospitalized adults.

Objective: To understand healthcare workers' (HCWs) beliefs and practices toward blood culture (BCx) use.

Design: Cross-sectional electronic survey and semi-structured interviews.

Setting: Academic hospitals in the United States.

Enhanced Recovery Canada (ERC) Clinical Pathway for Cesarean Delivery.

Enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) is a process to promote optimal recovery after a variety of operations utilized by many surgical specialities. This evidence- based series of interventions was developed to decrease the physiological stress and risks associated with surgery. In April of 2023, Enhanced Recovery Canada released its new Clinical Pathway for cesarean delivery.

Resilient livelihoods in Africa's pastoral-agropastoral transition zones will increasingly depend on heat stress adaptation and systemic change.

Pastoral-agropastoral transition zones across the African continent are projected to face crop production difficulties due to climate change. A greater emphasis on livestock production may be an appropriate response in some places. Here we explore how heat stress may impact livestock productivity and human work capacity.