The association between increasing fluid balance, acute kidney injury and mortality in patients with sepsis and septic shock: A retrospective single center audit.

Purpose: To determine whether a positive fluid balance is associated with AKI and mortality in sepsis and septic shock patients.

Methods: A retrospective chart review of 482 patients treated for sepsis or septic shock. Patients were stratified according to quartiles of cumulative fluid balance on days 1 and 3.

A case report: septic shock due to (tropical) pyomyositis and multiple metastatic embolisms caused by Panton Valentine Leukocidin-positive methicillin-sensitive staphylococcus aureus in a 12-year-old boy.

Case Report: A 12-year-old boy, of Congolese roots and without medical history, first presented to our Emergency Department 3 days after blunt trauma of the left ankle. The boy represented on two more occasions in the next 3 days due to ongoing pain. On the last occasion he presented with severe hypoglycaemia.

Flexibility as a Mediator between Personality and Well-Being in Older and Younger Adults: Findings from Questionnaire Data and a Behavioral Task.

Background: Personality is a predictor of subjective well-being in older and younger adults, but less is known about the underlying mechanisms. One possible mechanism is psychological flexibility, which is the ability to keep an open mind-set in order to make flexible choices adapted to the situation at hand.

Methods: We recruited 60 younger and 60 older adults and measured personality and well-being by questionnaires.

The relationship between attentional processing of emotional information and personality: A comparison between older and younger adults.

Older adults have been found to focus more on positive and less on negative information compared to younger adults. Yet, results on this attentional positivity effect are inconsistent. Since personality has been related to attentional processing in younger adults, we explored whether (mal)adaptive personality traits are also linked to the occurrence of the positivity effect measured with eye tracking paradigms.