Strategies to Increase Willingness to Receive a COVID-19 Vaccine among Nursing Home Staff.

Background: Nursing home (NH) staff and residents have been prioritized to receive COVID-19 vaccinations. However, NH staff have been hesitant. This study explored what strategies were used to overcome this hesitancy and which of these were found to be important by NH staff to increase their willingness to take a COVID-19 vaccine.

Distancing Measures and Challenges Discussed by COVID-19 Outbreak Teams of Dutch Nursing Homes: The COVID-19 MINUTES Study.

The most severe COVID-19 infections and highest mortality rates are seen among long-term care residents. To reduce the risk of infection, physical distancing is important. This study investigates what physical distancing measures were discussed by COVID-19 outbreak teams of Dutch long-term care organizations and what challenges they encountered.

Where to do number two: Lizards prefer to defecate on the largest rock in the territory.

Many animals use their excrements to communicate with others. In order to increase signal efficacy, animals often behaviourally select for specific defecation sites that maximize the detectability of their faecal deposits, such as the tip of rocks by some lizard species. However, the field conditions in which these observations are made make it difficult to reject alternative explanations of defecation site preference; rock tips may also provide better opportunities for thermoregulation, foraging, or escaping predators, and not solely for increasing the detectability of excrements.

Warm water vapour in the sooty outflow from a luminous carbon star.

The detection of circumstellar water vapour around the ageing carbon star IRC +10216 challenged the current understanding of chemistry in old stars, because water was predicted to be almost absent in carbon-rich stars. Several explanations for the water were postulated, including the vaporization of icy bodies (comets or dwarf planets) in orbit around the star, grain surface reactions, and photochemistry in the outer circumstellar envelope. With a single water line detected so far from this one carbon-rich evolved star, it is difficult to discriminate between the different mechanisms proposed.

Multiple neurinomas of the parapharyngeal space.

The authors describe a rare case of three neurinomas arising in the parapharyngeal space. In spite of the large extension of the neoplasms, the only symptom reported by the patient was some dysphagia. Magnetic resonance imaging allowed us to identify the three masses and suppose their diagnosis.

[Mental decompensation during vacation abroad].

Objective: To inventory psychiatric syndromes occurring during holidays and reported to an alarm centre.

Design: Descriptive.

Setting: Office of SOS-International Amsterdam.

Gastrointestinal complaints in relation to dietary intake in triathletes.

This study examined the relationship between gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms and dietary intake in triathletes. Fifty-five male triathletes (age 31 +/- 6 yrs) were surveyed regarding the most recently completed half Iron Man triathlon. Questions were asked regarding GI symptoms and dietary intake.

[Comparison of the results of surgery and radiotherapy in 175 cases of T2 glottic carcinoma: 116 operated and 59 irradiated cases].

The results were analyzed of 175 patients with glottic squamous cell carcinomas who were treated with curative purposes (1970-1986). One hundred and sixteen of them underwent surgery at the Otolaryngology Department of the University of Florence, and 59 were treated by radiation therapy at the Florence University and Hospital Departments of Radiotherapy. In the surgical series 78 cases were treated with radical surgery and 38 with conservative surgery.

[Paraganglioma (chemodectoma) of the larynx. Presentation of 2 cases].

Two rare cases of laryngeal paraganglioma are reported. The first patient was a 14-year-old girl, that had a new laterocervical paraganglioma, 4 years after the excision of a laryngeal tumor. The other patient was a 33-year-old man.

Malignant parotid tumors. Diagnostic considerations and therapeutic suggestions.

This paper presents our experience of the problem of diagnosis and surgical treatment of malignant parotid tumors, based on a retrospective evaluation of a series of 478 parotid tumors, of which 100 were malignant. Out of 75 primaris malignant tumors of epithelial origin, 35 belonged to the "epidermoid" group (adenocarcinomas, undifferentiated carcinomas, malignant mixed tumors, squamous cell carcinoma), 20 were mucoepidermoid carcinomas, 15 adenoid cystic carcinomas and 5 were acinic cell carcinoma. Altogether, 58.

Total parotidectomy--a routine treatment for parotid gland swellings?

The results of 25 years of quasi-routine total parotidectomy performance are shown. At the Department of Otolaryngology of the University of Florence, 582 patients were treated as follows: on 527 occasions by total parotidectomy with facial nerve preservation; 24 occasions by lateral lobectomy; 27 occasions by total parotidectomy with removal of the whole facial nerve; four times by enucleo-resection of the disease. Benign tumours were 378; primary and metastatic malignant tumours--100; non tumoral lesions--104.

The effect of isosorbide dinitrate following experimental coronary occlusion.

The results of the present investigation indicate that ISDN infusion following experimental coronary occlusion in anesthetized dogs (1) lowers systemic, cardiac, and pulmonary blood pressures; (2) decreases systemic resistance; (3) has no significant effect on cardiac output, heart rate, and stroke volume; (4) decreases serum CPK levels; and (5) has little effect on blood biochemical parameters. These results suggest that ISDN may have a minimal effect on the ischemic heart by means of a slight decrease in peripheral vascular resistance and systemic blood pressure.

Nitroglycerin treatment following experimental coronary occlusion.

The effect of sublingual (0.2 mg.) nitroglycerin (TNG) was studied in anesthetized dogs before and after coronary occlusion.