Telephone pre-operative assessment for adults: a comprehensive systematic review.

Background: The preparation of the patient for surgery is an extremely important stage of the elective perioperative process. Telephone preoperative assessment is being used internationally as a tool to perform health screening. The evidence around the effectiveness of such an intervention and the patient's experience of preoperative screening has not, however, been examined.

Characterization of serum and mucosal antibody responses in white sturgeon (Acipenser transmontanus Richardson) following immunization with WSIV and a protein hapten antigen.

Serum and cutaneous mucus antibodies were monitored in white sturgeon for 15 weeks following intraperitoneal immunization. Ten fish were immunized (50 microg) with white sturgeon iridovirus (WSIV) or white sturgeon gonad (WSGO) tissue culture cells emulsified with or without FCA. An additional group was immunized with FITC:KLH+FCA.

Transmission of white sturgeon iridovirus in Kootenai River white sturgeon Acipenser transmontanus.

It is thought that white sturgeon iridovirus (WSIV) is transmitted vertically from adult white sturgeon Acipenser transmontanus to progeny, and that wild adults are carriers of this virus. Based on this assumption, egg disinfection trials were initiated using wild Kootenai River white sturgeon. Over 2 consecutive years, post-fertilized eggs were disinfected with iodine at concentrations ranging from 0 to 400 ppm.