Impact of anaemia on outcome in burn patients.

Background: Currently, most critical care physicians maintain a patient's haemoglobin levels at 7 to 8 g dL-1. However, little data have been available on haemoglobin-related outcomes in burn patients. The purpose of this study was to evaluate inpatients with greater than 20% total body surface area burns and the effects of haemoglobin below 8 g dL-1 on clinical outcomes.

Sensitivity and specificity of urinalysis samples in critically ill patients.

Background: Pre-emptive screening of urine for patients admitted to an intensive care unit can result in the misinterpretation of data and over- or under-treatment of urinary tract infection.

Methods: Data were studied from 169 consecutive patients admitted to the neurologic or burn intensive care unit at Shands Hospital at the University of Florida. All patients had a urinary catheter in place at the time of admission.

Collision-induced dissociation of fatty acid [M - 2H + Na]- ions: charge-directed fragmentation and assignment of double bond position.

The collision-induced dissociation (CID) of cationic fatty acid-metal ion complexes has been extensively studied and, in general, provides rich structural information. In particular, charge-remote fragmentation processes are commonly observed allowing the assignment of double bond position. In a previous manuscript, we presented two methods to doubly deprotonate polyunsaturated fatty acids to form anionic fatty acid-sodium ion complexes, referred to as [M - 2H + Na] (-) ions.

Implementation in a large health system of a program to identify women at high risk for breast cancer.

Purpose: PATIENTS AT HIGH RISK FOR DEVELOPING BREAST CANCER CAN BE IDENTIFIED USING A VALIDATED PREDICTIVE TOOL: the Gail model. Patients thus identified can undergo careful breast cancer screening and be considered for preventive measures, such as chemoprevention with tamoxifen or raloxifene. An organized health system can create a screening and high-risk intervention program for breast cancer and potentially save lives and resources.