A New Framework for Practice-Academic Partnerships During the Pandemic-and into the Future.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, many health care facilities closed their doors to nursing students, depriving them of the experience of caring for patients, a foundation of nursing education. The purpose of this article is to report on how the National Council of State Boards of Nursing convened nurse leaders from around the country to explore this problem and develop possible solutions.Coming together virtually, these leaders recommended a national model, the practice-academic partnership, to provide nursing students with in-person clinical experiences during the pandemic.

The videoscopic view may not be significantly superior to the directly sighted peroral view during Macintosh-style videolaryngoscopy: a randomized equivalence cadaver trial.

Purpose: Videolaryngoscopy is widely believed to give a superior view to that obtained by direct laryngoscopy. Published literature suggests this benefit extends to both hyper-angulated and Macintosh-style videolaryngoscopes. Notwithstanding, our clinical experience shows that the videoscopic view with a Macintosh-style videolaryngoscope is often no different or only marginally better than the directly sighted peroral view.

The Role of ECMO in the "At-Risk" Tracheal Extubation: A Case Report.

Tracheal extubation requires careful planning and preparation. We present the extubation of a patient with severe ankylosing spondylitis after cervical spine surgery. We discuss the use of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) in this "at-risk" extubation, where our ability to oxygenate was uncertain and reintubation was predicted to be difficult.

Leptin indirectly regulates gonadotropin-releasing hormone neuronal function.

The adipose-derived hormone leptin communicates information about metabolic status to the hypothalamic GnRH neuronal system. It is unclear whether leptin can act directly on GnRH neurons. To examine this, we used three approaches.