Electrical burns and complications: Data of a tertiary burn center intensive care unit.

Background: To review the records of electrical burn patients hospitalized in our burn intensive care unit (ICU) and to report the complications together with our treatment results.

Methods: Demographic data, burn mechanism, presentation, percentage of burn total body surface area (TBSA), abbreviated burn severity index (ABSI) scores, complications and treatment approaches of electrical burn patients admitted to our burn ICU between September 2017 and August 2018 were evaluated retrospectively in this study.

Results: Electrical burn injury patients consisted of 17.

Response of GNSS-R on Dynamic Vegetated Terrain Conditions.

Global navigation satellite system reflectometry (GNSS-R) has the potential to offer a cost-effective solution for global land observations. In this study, we aim to understand GNSS-R sensitivity to changing land geophysical parameters. For this objective, we performed simulations of a ground-based receiver using a recently developed coherent bistatic vegetation scattering model (SCoBi-Veg) to detect GNSS-R signatures under varying soil moisture (SM), vegetation water content (VWC), and surface roughness during a full corn growing season.

Objective clinical pain analysis using serum cyclooxygenase-2 and inducible nitric oxide synthase in American patients.

Background: Pain is a multidimensional condition of multiple origins. Determining both intensity and underlying cause are critical for effective management. Utilization of painkillers does not follow any guidelines relying on biomarkers, which effectively eliminates objective treatment.

The prognostic value of cystatin C compared with trauma scores in multiple blunt trauma: a prospective cohort study.

Background: Many scoring systems have been developed to predict the prognosis of the traumatized patients in Emergency Departments, and the necessary calculations make complex scoring systems difficult to use as a part of the initial trauma patient assessment, and they also have limited accuracy.

Study Objective: This study compares the accuracy of cystatin C with trauma scoring systems in predicting the mortality of trauma patients.

Methods: Serum cystatin C levels were measured upon arrival in consecutive adult multiple blunt trauma patients during a 12-month period.

Ultrasonography by emergency medicine and radiology residents for the diagnosis of small bowel obstruction.

Objective: Our objective was to study the accuracy of emergency medicine [(EM) bedside ultrasonography (BUS)] and radiology residents performed ultrasonography (RUS) in patients with suspected mechanical small bowel obstruction (SBO).

Methods: After a 6-h training program, from January to June 2009, four EM residents used BUS to prospectively evaluate the patients presenting to the emergency department with suspected SBO. Then, patients underwent RUS.