A period prevalence study of palliative care need and provision in adult patients attending hospital-based dialysis units.

Background: Advanced chronic kidney disease is a life-limiting disease that is known to benefit from palliative care. Unmet palliative care need in patients with kidney failure is commonly reported but the level of need among patients receiving haemodialysis is unknown.

Methods: A period prevalence study of adult patients attending two hospital-based dialysis units was conducted.

Rapid Increase in Soil Respiration and Reduction in Soil Nitrate Availability Following CO Enrichment in a Mature Oak Forest.

In the future, with elevated atmospheric CO (eCO), forests are expected to increase woody biomass to capture more carbon (C), though this is dependent on soil nutrient availability. While young forests may access unused nutrients by growing into an unexplored soil environment, it is unclear how or if mature forests can adapt belowground under eCO. Soil respiration ( ) and nutrient bioavailability are integrative ecosystem measures of below-ground dynamics.

Recovery model for minimally invasive central cannulation, cardiopulmonary bypass, and cardioplegic arrest in quadrupeds.

Sternotomy is rarely performed for veterinary therapeutic or recovery models in quadrupeds because of difficulties with breathing, ambulation, and pain control. Central cannulation for cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) is infrequent and typically performed through full thoracotomies. Experienced clinical surgeons and perfusionists should provide guidance for new therapeutic interventions and translational research.

Feasibility of controlled nitric oxide generation ascorbate induced chemical reduction of nitrite ions.

Inhalable nitric oxide (iNO) is a lifesaving, FDA-approved drug to improve oxygenation in persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn. iNO also has many other applications in lung diseases owing to its vasodilatory and antimicrobial effects. However, its wider therapeutic application is often prohibited by the high cost and logistical barriers of traditional NO/N gas tanks.