[Does reluctance to perform mouth-to-mouth ventilation exist among emergency healthcare providers as first responders?].

Background: Only 30% of survivors from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest receive basic life support (BLS) before the arrival of emergency personnel. This is also due to reluctance to perform BLS, especially mouth-to-mouth ventilation without barrier devices in victims who are unknown to the rescuer (either layperson or healthcare provider).

Methods: To evaluate the incidence of reluctance to perform mouth-to-mouth ventilation without barrier devices and its consequences in a simulated BLS scenario proposed by a questionnaire to healthcare providers of critical area in a public general hospital.

Expression of NRL/NGAL (neu-related lipocalin/neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin) during mammalian embryonic development and in inflammation.

The neu-related lipocalin (NRL) is a protein overexpressed in rat mammary cancer induced by activated neu (HER-2/c-erbB2). This protein belongs to the family of the lipocalins or low molecular weight proteins able to bind and transport small hydrophobic molecules. The NRL homologue in mouse is SIP24, an acute phase protein induced in the animal by turpentine injection; the human homologous protein is NGAL expressed in granulocytes and epithelial cells in pathological conditions, such as inflammation and malignancy.

[Compromised function of the masticatory apparatus in juvenile rheumatoid arthritis].

A clinical and epidemiological study was conducted on a sample of 30 J.R.A.