Standardized Neonatal ICU Progress Note Template and Feedback System: A Clinical Documentation Improvement Initiative.

Introduction This quality improvement (QI) initiative aimed to improve the clinical documentation of daily progress notes in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) by applying a standardized documentation template and conducting regular cycles of audit and feedback to ensure compliance and improvement. Methods Firstly, to better assess documentation practices impacting patient care, members of the NICU auditing team identified seven key points in medical records. These points were then used for the audit of 30 randomly selected "progress notes" for infants admitted to the NICU between January and June 2022.

Predictors of Extubation Failure in Very Low Birth Weight Infants at a Tertiary Care Hospital in Al Ain: A Retrospective Study.

Objectives: To identify and analyze the factors leading to extubation failure among very low birth weight infants in a specific tertiary care setting in Al Ain, emphasizing clinical and demographic variables. The study used medical data of Very Low Birth Weight (VLBW) infants admitted to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) from 1st January 2015 to 31st December 2019, and evaluated the incidence and risk factors associated with extubation failure.

Methods: Data was collected from the hospital's electronic records and tabulated in Excel sheets, with extubation failure defined as reintubation due to deterioration of respiratory condition within seven days post-extubation.

Assessment of initial vancomycin trough levels and risk factors of vancomycin-induced nephrotoxicity in neonates.

Objectives: Vancomycin is a glycopeptide antibiotic commonly used in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) to treat late onset sepsis. It is recommended that vancomycin trough levels at steady state following intermittent dosing regimen be maintained at 10-20 mg/L, which is largely dependent on the type of infection. Our objective is to assess the ability of initial vancomycin dosing regimens to obtain target trough levels and to assess the percentage and risk factors associated with the development of acute kidney injury (AKI) while on vancomycin.

Melatonin Positively Influences the Photosynthetic Machinery and Antioxidant System of during Salinity Stress.

Recent studies have demonstrated melatonin protects various crops against abiotic stresses. However, the effects of melatonin on the photosynthetic apparatus of stressed plants is poorly characterized. We investigated the effects of melatonin pretreatment on photosynthesis and tolerance to salinity stress in (oat) plants.

Prevalence and outcome of acute kidney injury, as defined by the new Kidney Disease Improving Global Outcomes guideline, in very low birth weight infants.

Aim: To evaluate the prevalence, risk factors and outcome of acute kidney injury (AKI) in very low birth weight (VLBW) infants.

Methods: In this retrospective study of VLBW infants, we analyzed the prevalence of AKI, as defined by changes in serum creatinine and urine output, associated risk factors and outcomes.

Results: A total of 293 VLBW infants (mean gestational age 28.

The ability of single-chain surfactants to emulsify an aqueous-based liquid crystal oscillates with odd-even parity of alkyl-chain length.

The physical properties of many organic molecules often oscillate when the number of carbons in their aliphatic chains changes from odd to even. This odd-even effect for single-chain surfactants in solution is rarely observed. Here, we report the ability of single-chain surfactants to emulsify a class of non-amphiphilic organic salts, disodium cromoglycate (5'DSCG) oscillates as a function of the odd or even number of the aliphatic carbons.

Surface control of blastospore attachment and ligand-mediated hyphae adhesion of Candida albicans.

Adhesion on a surface via nonspecific attachment or multiple ligand-receptor interactions is a critical event for fungal infection by Candida albicans. Here, we find that the tri(ethylene glycol)- and d-mannitol-terminated monolayers do not resist the blastospore attachment, but prevent the hyphae adhesion of C. albicans.

Emulsion of aqueous-based nonspherical droplets in aqueous solutions by single-chain surfactants: templated assembly by nonamphiphilic lyotropic liquid crystals in water.

Single-chain surfactants usually emulsify and stabilize oily substances into droplets in an aqueous solution. Here, we report a coassembly system, in which single types of anionic or non-ionic surfactants emulsify a class of water-soluble nonamphiphilic organic salts with fused aromatic rings in aqueous solutions. The nonamphiphilic organic salts are in turn promoted to form droplets of water-based liquid crystals (chromonic liquid crystals) encapsulated by single-chain surfactants.

Prevalence and relationship of human papilloma virus type 16 and type 18 with oral squamous cell carcinoma and oral leukoplakia in fresh scrappings: a PCR study.

Introduction: It has been always an area of diffuse clarity when you study malignancy and its pathogenesis. Recently, it has invited lot of interest among the researchers about the possibility of role of viruses in the initiation of carcinogenesis. Recent advances in the field of molecular biology and biotechnology have solved some problems with regard to pathogenesis.

Noncovalent polymerization and assembly in water promoted by thermodynamic incompatibility.

This work studies the phase separations between polymers and a small molecule in a common aqueous solution that do not have well-defined hydrophobic-hydrophilic separation. In addition to poly(acrylamide) (PAAm) and poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA), poly(vinyl pyrrolidone) (PVP) also promotes liquid crystal (LC) droplet formation by disodium cromoglycate (5'DSCG) solvated in water. In the presence of these polymers, the concentration of 5'DSCG needed for forming LC droplets is substantially lower than that needed for forming an LC phase by 5'DSCG alone.

Loss of escape-related giant neurons in a spiny lobster, Panulirus argus.

When attacked, many decapod crustaceans perform tailflips, which are triggered by a neural circuit that includes lateral giant interneurons, medial giant interneurons, and fast flexor motor giant neurons (MoGs). Slipper lobsters (Scyllaridae) lack these giant neurons, and it has been hypothesized that behavioral (e.g.