Background: Maternity care access is worsening across the United States, driven in part by difficulties staffing obstetric units in some hospitals. Certified registered nurse anesthetists (CRNAs) provide obstetric anesthesia services in underserved areas, including rural areas (Cohen et al., 2021; Martsolf et al.
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Introduction: Alcohol use disorder (AUD) is prevalent and recognized as a chronic, relapsing disorder. Even though effective treatment options are available, AUD is strongly undertreated. As adjuvant treatment strategies accompanying psychosocial treatments, pharmacological strategies can increase the efficacy of AUD treatment options.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Drought-induced embolism formation in conifers is associated with several tracheid and pit traits, which vary in parallel from stem apex to base. We tested whether this axial anatomical variability is associated with a progressive variation in embolism vulnerability along the stem from apex to base.
Methods: We assessed the tracheid hydraulic diameter (), mean pit membrane area () and the xylem pressure at 50% loss of conductivity () on longitudinal stem segments extracted at different distances from the stem apex () in a and an tree.