Publications by authors named "Kathrin Schmid"
Despite improvement in vaccinations, Hepatitis B remains a major health concern due to the difficulty of prevention even in low endemic areas such as Europe. In this report we describe the performance characteristics of the new HBsAg Next Qualitative and HBsAg Next Confirmatory assays designed for blood screening and diagnostic purposes on the Alinity i and ARCHITECT fully automated systems. The new assays were evaluated in comparison to the ARCHITECT HBsAg Qualitative II and Confirmatory assays on seroconversion, analytical sensitivity, and mutant panels along with testing of over 400 clinical positive samples demonstrating excellent improvements in sensitivity.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Paediatric patients with an unanticipated poor grade of laryngoscopic view during tracheal intubation represent a challenging situation potentially associated with increased morbidity and mortality. The aim of this study was to investigate the frequency of modified Cormack-Lehane (MCL) views and to elucidate variables for poor views in a large collective of children without anticipated airway difficulties.
Methods: The departmental anaesthesia patient database was searched for patients who had undergone general anaesthesia with tracheal intubation between January 2007 and March 2017.
Airway dimensions from fetal life to adolescence-A literature overview.
Pediatr Pulmonol
August 2018
Background: Data on airway dimensions in pediatric patients are important for proper selection of pediatric airway equipment such as endotracheal tubes, double-lumen tubes, bronchial blockers, or stents. The aim of the present work was to provide a synopsis of the available data on pediatric airway dimensions.
Methods: A systematic literature search was carried out in the PubMed database, Scopus, Embase, Web of Science, Prisma, and Google Scholar and secondarily completed by a reference search.
Background: This study investigated the extent of traditional knowledge and use of homemade herbal remedies for livestock by farmers in 3 Swiss cantons (Aargau, Zurich, Schaffhausen). The study focused on organic farms.
Methods: At 21 farms, 24 farmers aged 36-83 years were interviewed with a semi-structured, detailed questionnaire.
Article Synopsis
- A new microarray platform has been created that lets scientists quickly do experiments with tiny pieces of DNA right at their lab bench.
- This platform can make special DNA probes using light, allowing researchers to customize their experiments in just a few hours.
- The results from experiments on this platform showed that it works really well, providing accurate and consistent data about gene activity, similar to other advanced methods used in labs.