Publications by authors named "M C Ing"
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- Pulmonary and pleural infections related to syphilis are rare and not commonly encountered.
- Most previously documented cases relied on clinical signs and positive blood tests instead of analyzing pleural fluid or biopsies.
- This report presents a unique case of secondary syphilis confirmed by the identification of syphilitic pleural effusion through a procedure called thoracentesis.
Mixture modeling is a latent variable (i.e., a variable that cannot be measured directly) approach to quantitatively represent unobserved subpopulations within an overall population.
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- Hospitalized infants often receive opioids to manage pain during procedures, but prolonged use can adversely affect their neurodevelopment.
- A systematic review revealed 14 studies addressing opioid dosing conversions for infants under 1 year, but the conversion factors were inconsistent and mainly based on adult data.
- To improve opioid management for these infants, there is a need for a standardized, evidence-based approach that considers their unique physiological needs.
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- High-risk infants hospitalized in the U.S. face extremely high healthcare costs, especially those exposed to opioids, which are not fully understood.
- Researchers analyzed data from 126,897 high-risk infants admitted to children's hospitals between 2010 and 2020, focusing on factors like opioid usage and its financial impact on hospitalization costs.
- Findings indicate that each day of opioid use increases healthcare costs significantly, emphasizing the need for future research on the long-term implications and expenses related to opioid exposure in these vulnerable infants.
Background: Pleural effusions often cause disabling breathlessness, however the mechanism is unknown. Patients with pleural effusions are subjected to pleural fluid drainage on a 'trial and error' basis, as symptom relief varies. This population commonly complain of bendopnoea (breathlessness on bending forward) which has not been investigated.
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