Publications by authors named "S L Powell"
Introduction: The History, Electrocardiogram, and Troponin (HET) score is a simplified alternative to the HEART score for risk stratifying emergency department (ED) patients with chest pain. This study evaluates the safety and efficacy of the HET score for 30-day cardiac death or myocardial infarction (MI).
Methods: We conducted a secondary analysis of the STOP-CP multisite cohort study.
Introduction: Tree bacterial diseases are a threat in forestry due to their increasing incidence and severity. Understanding tree defence mechanisms requires evaluating metabolic changes arising during infection. Metabolite extraction affects the chemical diversity of the samples and, therefore, the biological relevance of the data.
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- The CMSA Standards of Practice serve as a guiding framework for treating individuals in case management.
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- The Implicit Prosody Hypothesis (IPH) suggests that people create internal vocal patterns while reading silently, similar to those used in spoken language.
- The study used EEG to analyze brain responses as participants read sequences of words with different stress patterns, revealing that unexpected stress in words triggered stronger brain reactions.
- Results indicated that various brain wave activities correlate with rhythmic expectations in language, supporting the idea that the same neural networks are involved in processing both spoken and silently read language.
Background: Pelvic exenterations are now established as a standard of care for locally advanced and recurrent rectal cancer. Traditionally, these radical and complex operations have been performed via an open approach, but with the increasing expertise in robotic-assisted surgery (RAS), there is scope to perform such cases robotically. This study compares outcomes from open and RAS pelvic exenterations.
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