A systematic mixed methods review: Recovering from a hip fracture in a health promoting perspective.

Aim: To describe and interpret how older adults who have returned home to recover from a hip fracture cope with life in a health promoting perspective.

Design: Data were collected through the search in seven electronic databases during 2014. Inclusion criteria were peer reviewed, empirical studies.

Nursing staffs' attentiveness to older adults falling in residential care - an interview study.

Aims And Objectives: The focus of this study is to explore how nursing staff experience safety promotion and fall prevention in residential care settings for older adults. The article calls for attentiveness to fall prevention within a broader lifeworld context of well-being and health promotion.

Background: There is limited research on fall prevention and safety promotion where the lifeworld and well-being provide a direction for care.

Older persons' narrations on falls and falling—stories of courage and endurance.

Fall related injuries in nursing homes have a major impact on the quality of life in later adulthood and there is a dearth of studies on falling and fall prevention from the older person's perspective. The aim of the study was to identify how older persons perceive falling, fall prevention, and fall accidents. Six in-depth interviews were carried out and a hermeneutic phenomenological method was used to describe and interpret the older persons' accounts.

Home as a health promotion setting for older adults.

Background: The number and the proportion of older persons is growing in the Nordic Countries. The growth in the older population has a clear impact on the care system for older persons. One trend is to prioritise home care instead of care in institutions.

Appetite and falls: Old age and lived experiences.

Falling among older adults is a well-known public health problem but the association between falling and appetite is seldom studied although poor nutritional status is accepted as a risk factor for falls. On this background the aim of this study was to understand how older adults, who have fallen several times within a year, related their experiences of appetite as a phenomenon in everyday life. In narrative in-depth interviews, eight women and four men contributed with their stories.

Detection of rheumatoid arthritis by evaluation of normalized variances of fluorescence time correlation functions.

Fluorescence imaging using the dye indocyanine green as a contrast agent was investigated in a prospective clinical study for the detection of rheumatoid arthritis. Normalized variances of correlated time series of fluorescence intensities describing the bolus kinetics of the contrast agent in certain regions of interest were analyzed to differentiate healthy from inflamed finger joints. These values are determined using a robust, parameter-free algorithm.

Near-infrared imaging of the breast using omocianine as a fluorescent dye: results of a placebo-controlled, clinical, multicenter trial.

Objectives: To evaluate the efficacy of the near-infrared (NIR) dye Omocianine in a placebo-controlled, dose-escalating multicenter trial for the detection of malignant breast lesions by using a NIR imaging system.

Materials And Methods: The study was approved by the ethical review board of Berlin and Münster,, and all participants provided written informed consent. Fifty-two consecutive patients were examined with NIR imaging before, during, and after intravenous injection of Omocianine.

Fear of falling from a daily life perspective; narratives from later life.

Fear of falling is a well-known condition in later life. The aim of this study was to illuminate the experiences and the meaning of fear of falling in a daily-life context. The method used was a qualitative study inspired by interpretive phenomenology.

First-pass and equilibrium-MRA of the aortoiliac region with a superparamagnetic iron oxide blood pool MR contrast agent (SH U 555 C): results of a human pilot study.

The purpose of this study was to study different doses for first-pass and equilibrium phase MRA of aortoiliac vessels with a superparamagnetic iron oxide (SPIO) intravascular MR contrast agent (SH U 555 C) after single i.v. bolus injection.

Myocardial perfusion and MR angiography of chest with SH U 555 C: results of placebo-controlled clinical phase i study.

Purpose: To evaluate SH U 555 C for contrast material-enhanced three-dimensional magnetic resonance (MR) angiography of the chest and myocardial perfusion.

Materials And Methods: For chest MR angiography, SH U 555 C was intravenously injected at four doses (5, 10, 20, and 40 micromol iron [Fe] per kilogram of body weight) into three healthy volunteers per dose group, and placebo (saline) was injected into one additional volunteer per dose group (16 subjects). With a body phased-array coil, serial high-spatial-resolution breath-hold three-dimensional MR angiography of the chest was performed at baseline, first pass, and 6, 12, 18, 24, 30, 36, and 42 minutes after injection.

Coronary arteries: contrast-enhanced MR imaging with SH L 643A--experience in 12 volunteers.

Purpose: To assess SH L 643A for three-dimensional breath-hold and respiratory-gated magnetic resonance (MR) imaging in the depiction of coronary arteries.

Materials And Methods: Twelve healthy male volunteers underwent either three-dimensional breath-hold (n = 6) or respiratory-gated (n = 6) coronary MR angiography before and after intravenous injection of 0.1 mmol SH L 643A per kilogram of body weight.