Publications by authors named "V B Pizziconi"

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  • - The Barrow Innovation Center was established in 2016, drawing on the history of neurosurgical innovation, with the goal of inspiring similar initiatives in medicine.
  • - A review covering five years showed the center generated significant intellectual property with 87 provisional patents and 27 multidisciplinary projects, collaborating with several universities.
  • - The center transformed the innovation culture at its institution and improved neurosurgical residents' education, though future focus will be on creating industry partnerships to better commercialize ideas.
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Background: Becoming a good nurse is a mandatory goal for each nurse and a daily challenge. Nurses have the responsibility to maintain the highest level of professional integrity and quality not only to protect patients and their families but also to positively influence nursing students. In fact, students learn how to become good nurses if they really experience that from all nurses they meet during their training.

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Background: Nursing profession requires a complex set of capacities, such as team building, reaching a common goal, understanding of different roles, good communication, and positive conflict resolution. Teaching this kind of competencies during the university course is challenging. Team sports require quite similar abilities to those of a nursing tam.

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  • The Nuss procedure involves placing bars to repair pectus excavatum, which may hinder chest movement and compliance during CPR.
  • Research indicates that these bars significantly reduce the depth of chest compressions and increase the force needed to achieve proper compression depth.
  • There's potential for using active abdominal compressions and decompressions (AACD) as an alternative CPR method for patients with Nuss bars, warranting further study.
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Introduction: Politics, the science and the art of administering public affairs, is a very important field. Dealing with professional policy means to dedicate ourselves to the good of the profession. Professional policies are an integral part of taking care; the professional family needs clear reference points: training, tutoring, promotion and institutional representation.

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