Publications by authors named "L Chavarria"

Introduction Despite simulation being widely recognized as an essential component of medical education, there remains a dearth of literature on its implementation and effectiveness in pre-clerkship medical education. In order to effectively encompass healthcare simulations within medical instruction, it is imperative to first address the often neglected gap in faculty development and training. With this in mind, we aim to present our experience in implementing the Debriefing Assessment for Simulation in Healthcare (DASH) tool in training faculty at Nova Southeastern University Dr.

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  • Bacterial toxins, specifically enterotoxigenic toxins like LT, can affect heart function by binding to receptors on heart cells (cardiomyocytes), which may lead to conditions like cardiomyopathy and sudden cardiac death (SIDS).
  • LT disrupts calcium homeostasis in heart cells, impacting their electrical activity and leading to significant alterations in heart performance, such as increased heart rate variability and changes in action potentials.
  • The findings suggest that the B subunit of the LT toxin plays an active role in heart dysfunction and points to a possible link between enterotoxigenic bacteria and instances of sudden cardiac death, emphasizing a need for further understanding of this connection.
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Inwardly rectifying potassium (Kir) channels play a key role in maintaining the resting membrane potential and supporting potassium homeostasis. There are many variants of Kir channels, which are usually tetramers in which the main subunit has two trans-membrane helices attached to two N- and C-terminal cytoplasmic tails with a pore-forming loop in between that contains the selectivity filter. These channels have domains that are strongly modulated by molecules present in nutrients found in different diets, such as phosphoinositols, polyamines and Mg.

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Introduction: Around the world 60,000 people die from rabies each year. The main form of exposure to rabies is by the bite of animals infected with the virus. More than 20,000 cases of rabies-transmitting animal bites are reported each year, in El Salvador, a country located in Central America.

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Lead and mercury are heavy metals that are highly toxic to life forms. There are no known physiological processes that require them, and they do not have a particular threshold concentration to produce biologic damage. They are non-biodegradable, and they slowly accumulate in the environment in a dynamic equilibrium between air, water, soil, food, and living organisms.

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