Paramedic-Initiated Home Care Referrals and Use of Home Care and Emergency Medical Services.

Objective: We examined the association between paramedic-initiated home care referrals and utilization of home care, 9-1-1, and Emergency Department (ED) services.

Methods: This was a retrospective cohort study of individuals who received a paramedic-initiated home care referral after a 9-1-1 call between January 1, 2011 and December 31, 2012 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Home care, 9-1-1, and ED utilization were compared in the 6 months before and after home care referral.

On the signals underlying conscious awareness of action.

To investigate whether conscious judgments of movement onset are based solely on pre-movement signals (i.e., premotor or efference copy signals) or whether sensory feedback (i.

Effect of delta9-tetrahydrocannabinol on quinine palatability and AM251 on sucrose and quinine palatability using the taste reactivity test.

Here we provide evidence that the cannabinoid agonist, Delta9-tetrahydrocannabinol (Delta9-THC) enhances quinine palatability and the CB1 antagonist/inverse agonist, AM251, reduces sucrose and quinine palatability using the taste reactivity test, which provides a direct measure of palatability independently of appetitive behavior. In Experiment 1, rats were treated with a low dose of Delta9-THC (0.5 mg/kg) or Vehicle 30 min, 60 min, 120 min or 240 min prior to a 5-min intraoral infusion of a highly unpalatable 0.