Publications by authors named "K L SMART"
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- The highlights cover research from 2022 divided into three sections: preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative, focusing on advancements in heart transplantation.
- The preoperative section discusses candidate assessment, donor optimization, and factors like cannabis use and comorbidities that impact transplantation success.
- The intraoperative section emphasizes teamwork and surgical techniques while the postoperative section highlights managing complications like tricuspid regurgitation and exploring xenotransplantation options.
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- * Critical issues in research include poor governance, lack of diversity, inadequate stakeholder engagement, and issues with data transparency and reporting, which can lead to misguided clinical practices and low value care.
- * The article proposes the ENTRUST-PE framework to enhance the reliability of pain research, aiming to build trust among stakeholders and calling for collective action to improve the quality and outcomes of pain science.
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- - The study investigates the effectiveness of next-generation sequencing (NGS) versus traditional culture methods in identifying bacteria and testing antibiotic resistance in dogs with superficial bacterial folliculitis (SBF), primarily caused by Staphylococcus pseudintermedius.
- - Twenty-four dogs with SBF were sampled using sterile swabs, and the results showed that NGS identified more bacterial organisms than culture methods, but there was no significant difference in turnaround time.
- - Ultimately, the research concludes that NGS is not a suitable replacement for traditional culture methods in diagnosing and treating SBF in dogs at this time due to inconsistencies in resistance detection.
Understanding the relationship between empathy, subjective effects of addictive reinforcers and dopamine function in people with gambling disorder (PGD) vs. healthy controls (HCs) may inform GD treatment. The current investigation addressed this issue via retrospective analysis of data from three studies using amphetamine and a slot machine (SLOTS) as reinforcers in PGD and HCs.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPhysiotherapist managers views on advanced practice physiotherapy in Ireland. A qualitative study.
Physiother Theory Pract
July 2024
Introduction: The introduction of physiotherapists working with advanced scope of practice has contributed to improvements in healthcare services.
Objective: This qualitative study explores the views of physiotherapist managers on the Advanced Practice Physiotherapy role and the barriers and enablers to progression of this career pathway.
Methods: A qualitative focus group study was conducted online with 10 purposefully sampled physiotherapist managers.