Wheelchair Athlete Concussion Baseline Data: A Pilot Retrospective Analysis.

Objective: The aim of the study was to investigate whether a disabled athlete's underlying disability and concussion history impact the score on baseline testing from a disability modified Graded Symptoms Checklist, Standardized Assessment of Concussion, and Wheelchair Error Scoring System.

Study Design: This is a retrospective chart review of the 81 veteran wheelchair sports athletes who had baseline concussion evaluations. Demographic data including qualifying disability for the National Veterans Wheelchair Games, scores from the modified Graded Symptoms Checklist, Standardized Assessment of Concussion, and Wheelchair Error Scoring System were analyzed.

Prevalence of lateral epicondylosis in veteran manual wheelchair users participating in adaptive sports.

Determine the prevalence of lateral epicondylosis (LE) of the dominant elbow in manual wheelchair users based on ultrasound assessment and physical exam. Prospective, cross-sectional. National Veteran Wheelchair Games 2018 and 2019 (event medical services).

Ultrasonographic comparison of the lateral epicondyle in wheelchair-user (and able-bodied) tennis players: A pilot study.

To evaluate whether manual wheelchair use and wheelchair tennis are associated with increased risk of lateral epicondylosis (LE). We hypothesized that the prevalence of LE would be highest in WC tennis players, followed by tennis players, WC users, and able-bodied subjects. Prospective cross-sectional pilot study.

Adaptive Sports in the Rehabilitation of the Disabled Veterans.

Sports are ingrained in our society and are part of being a human. Through the Armed Forces, military personnel and veterans are trained and adapt to the learned behavior of perseverance, comradery, and teamwork, putting them in an ideal situation for using adaptive sports as a rehabilitation modality. Integrating sports into this unique population of disabled individuals helps to produce productive members of society.

The frequency and consequences of cardiopulmonary resuscitation performed by bystanders on patients who are not in cardiac arrest.

Background: The American Heart Association encourages trained and untrained bystanders to perform, at a minimum, chest compressions on anyone who suddenly collapses. It is possible that people who are not in cardiac arrest may receive bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), from which the potential for injury is unknown.

Objectives: To determine the number of victims who received bystander CPR but were not in cardiac arrest and to identify any injuries resulting from receiving bystander CPR.

Unit to unit variation of pesticide residues--options for acute dietary risk assessment.

Within the context of the current UK policy for those commodities where the potential variability of residues in individual commodity units is taken into account, a variability factor nu, which reflects the ratio of a high level residue in the individual commodity unit to the corresponding composite residue level, is used. Data gathered from supervised industry trials in which individual items were analysed following treatment, although limited, show that variability is typically lower than that reflected by the default factors currently used and that the range of variability is reproducible over the limited range of different a.i.

Rapid multimethod for verification and determination of toxic pesticides in whole blood by means of capillary GC-MS.

A rapid and single multimethod was developed to determine substances of different pesticide classes in whole blood in the event of acute human intoxications, as required by EU Commission Directive 96/46. The method was validated by an in-house and an independent laboratory validation. Whole blood is hemolyzed and then deproteinized.

Determination of cefpirome (HR 810) in serum and urine.

Cefpirome (HR 810) is a new cephalosporin under clinical investigation. Specific and sensitive HPLC- and agar-diffusion methods were developed for the determination of serum- and urine concentrations. The methods are fully validated according to the IFCC Recommendations on Quality Control in Clinical Chemistry.

A new aspect of serum protein binding of tolbutamide.

Tolbutamide is known to bind highly to serum proteins. Quite different values have, however, been reported for binding, ranging from 80 to 99 percent. In this study, in vivo and in vitro binding of increasing concentrations of tolbutamide to human serum proteins were evaluated.

Cefotaxime and desacetyl-cefotaxime blood levels in hepatic dysfunction.

Serum levels of cefotaxime and desacetyl-cefotaxime were studied in 18 patients with hepatic cirrhosis after an intravenous bolus injection of 2 g of cefotaxime. Blood levels were independent of the degree of hepatic dysfunction and did not differ from those reported in normal individuals.

Comparative bioavailability of two furosemide formulations in humans.

Twelve healthy male volunteers participated in a balanced crossover comparison of a brand-name and generic furosemide formulations. Each treatment was given as a single 40-mg tablet following an overnight fast. Furosemide concentrations in plasma and urine were determined up to 24 h after treatment; urine output and urinary sodium excretion were also measured.

Kinetics and metabolism of nomifensine.

Metabolic and pharmacokinetic studies of nomifensine maleate, a tetrahydroisoquinoline derivative with antidepressant properties, are reviewed. Results of pharmacokinetic studies indicate that nomifensine has a short distribution phase and a large volume of distribution. It is rapidly metabolized to its N-glucuronide.

[Cefotaxime and desacetylcefotaxime in cerebrospinal fluid of newborn and premature infants].

On the occasion of clinically indicated lumbar of cisternal punctures in 19 newborn and premature babies treated with Cefotaxime 33 CSF-levels of Cefotaxime (CTX) and it's metabolite Desacetyl-Cefotaxime (D-CTX) were measured by means of HPLC. 6 of the 19 infants suffered from meningitis. The highest CTX-levels were found 2 to 4 hours after the last infusion of CTX (50 or 100 mg/kg within 20 min, each 12 hours).

High-performance liquid column and thin-layer chromatographic determination of human serum glibenclamide at therapeutic levels.

For glibenclamide bioavailability studies in serum, high-performance liquid column and thin-layer chromatographic methods were introduced. Both methods are specific, accurate and sensitive with detection limits of at least 5 ng of glibenclamide per ml of serum. Detection is performed in the ultraviolet at wavelengths of 200 nm for liquid chromatography or 300 nm for thin-layer chromatography.

Determination of plasma catecholamines by means of radioenzymatic labelling and high pressure liquid chromatographic separation.

0.05 ml plasma samples are incubated with 3H-S-adenosylmethionine and catechol-O-methyl-transferase. The resulting methodoxy derivatives are extracted, the extracts separated by high pressure liquid chromatography and the metanephrine fractions collected.

Quantitative determination of clobazam in serum and urine by gas chromatography, thin layer chromatography and fluorometry.

The procedures available for determination of clobazam (Frisium, Hoechst) are gas chromatography, fluorometry, and thin-layer chromatography. The study presents detailed descriptions of analytical procedures appropriate for routine determinations in serum and urine, and results from human trials. Moreover, the physicochemical properties of clobazam, viz.

Kinetic and dynamic interaction of clobazam and alcohol.

The present study was designed to investigate both pharmacodynamic and pharmacokinetic interactions of clobazam and alcohol. Eight healthy male volunteers participated in an intraindividual Latin square comparison of (a) clobazam 20 mg; (b) placebo; (c) alcohol + placebo; and (d) alcohol + clobazam 20 mg. Alcohol was administered orally in quantities individually calculated to yield serum alcohol concentrations of about 1000 μg/ml.

Pharmacokinetics of single and multiple doses of clobazam in humans.

1. The pharmacokinetics of clobazam and its biotransformation product N-desmethylclobazam were investigated after single and multiple doses in normal subjects. 2.

Quantitative thin-layer and high-performance liquid chromatographic determination of the diuretic agent 2-chloro-5-[44-hydroxy-3-methyl-2-(methylimino)-4-thiazolidinyl]benzenesulphonamide hydrochloride in serum and urine.

Sensitive and specific thin-layer (TLC) and high-performance liquid chromatographic (HPLC) methods were developed for the determination of the diuretic agent 2-chloro-5-[4-hydroxy-3-methyl-2-(methylimino)-4-thiazolidinyl]benzenesulphonamide hydrochloride (HOE 740). HOE 740 can be determined in serum by HPLC. The detection is performed at a very short wavelength (202 nm), resulting in a detection limit of 10 ng/ml.

[The solutibility of local anaesthetics in cerebrospinal fluid and the dependency of the process on the hydrogene ion concentration (author's transl)].

Reports on in vitro precipitation of local anesthetics suggested the possibility of a damaging effect on nervous tissue with spinal anesthesia. The present assays showed that the solubility of local anesthetics in aqueous media decreases with rising pH-levels. The partial pressure of CO2 determines the pH-level of the cerebrospinal fluid, the level ranging at about 7.

Quantitative determination of tiamenidine hydrochloride in human serum using gas chromatography mass spectrometry.

A method has been developed for the blood level determination of the antihypertensive agent tiamenidine hydrochloride. The serum samples are mixed with deuterium labelled tiamenidine hydrochloride as an internal standard and extracted with methylene chloride. The extracts are derivatized with heptafluorobutyric acid anhydride and analysed by means of gas chromatography mass spectrometry using the selected ion monitoring technique to measure the molecular ion intensities of the bis-heptafluorobutyryl derivatives of tiamenidine hydrochloride and of the internal standard.

Kinetic interaction of nomifensine with a 1, 5-benzodiazepine (clobazam).

1. Among the numerous possibilities of drug interactions, pharmacokinetic interactions may cause mutual changes in absorption, distribution, metabolism and elimination of either drug. In the present study this approach was used to investigate pertinent effects of nomifensine and clobazam.

High performance liquid chromatography in research of pharmacokinetics and metabolism.

High performance liquid chromatography in connection with monochromatic UV-detection has proved to be a powerful tool for separation and quantitative determination of drugs and their metabolites in body fluids. Serum samples from volunteers medicated with the psychotropic drugs fosazepam and nomifensine are analysed by this method. Separation times are less than 5 min; the detection limits are within the range of 30-50 ng/ml serum.