The lived experience of receiving services as a National Disability Insurance Scheme participant in a rural area: Challenges of choice and control.

Objective: To explore the lived experience of people with a physical disability residing in a rural area and receiving services under the NDIS.

Setting: Rural areas of New South Wales classified as Modified Monash Categories 3-7.

Participants: Semistructured interviews were conducted with seven purposively sampled participants who self-identified as having a physical disability, were receiving NDIS funding and lived in a rural area of NSW.

Lived experience of parents and carers of people receiving services in rural areas under the National Disability Insurance Scheme.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to investigate the lived experience of parenting or caring for a person with a disability receiving services under the National Disability Insurance Scheme in rural Australia.

Design: Qualitative study guided by the phenomenology of practice.

Setting: Rural areas of New South Wales (MM 3-7).

Immersive placement experiences promote rural intent in allied health students of urban and rural origin.

Introduction: Pre-vocational placement experiences are known to considerably influence the career preferences of health graduates and are a key factor in growing the rural allied health workforce. This paper explores the rural placement experiences and future work intentions of students who attended a placement with the University of Newcastle Department of Rural Health.

Methods: Part of a larger longitudinal mixed methods study of students' placement experiences and subsequent career choices, this study explored students' placement evaluations responses.

Powerless facing the wave of change: the lived experience of providing services in rural areas under the National Disability Insurance Scheme.

Introduction: Australia's National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) is the catalyst for a significant shift in the delivery of disability services to people with a disability and their families, including those residing in rural and remote parts of Australia. Allied health services in rural areas of Australia are often limited, existing services are characterised as being of a generalist nature and demand for services often exceeds service capacity. This shift in the delivery of disability services with the rollout of NDIS could have a poignant impact on the rurally based allied health providers delivering these services.

A Definitive IMRT-SIB with Concomitant Chemotherapy for Synchronous Locally Advanced Anal Canal Cancer and Prostate Cancer.

Currently, there are no specific recommendations regarding the management of the synchronous tumours due to the lack of either specific guidelines or individuals' clinical experiences relative to these clinical situations. In the presence of a locally advanced double primary tumour and with the lymph node metastases in addition, from the radiotherapeutical point of view, it must be challenging to manage this complicated situation that requires a more delicate treatment planning, due to higher doses prescribed to greater volumes concomitantly with the chemotherapy. A 68-year-old Caucasian male with a synchronous intermediate-risk prostate adenocarcinoma and locally advanced anal canal carcinoma underwent IMRT-SIB with concomitant chemotherapy at our institute.

Longitudinal Tracking of Workplace Outcomes for Undergraduate Allied Health Students Undertaking Placements in Rural Australia.

Unlabelled: Creating positive experiences in rural practice at the undergraduate level can influence allied health students' attitudes to working rurally. This study aimed to evaluate allied health students' experiences of their short-term, medium-term, or long-term rural placement and to follow their career outcomes.

Methods: The study used a mixed-methods design that utilised qualitative and quantitative data.

Can an iPod Touch be used to assess whole-body vibration associated with mining equipment?

The cost and complexity of commercially available whole-body vibration measurement devices is a barrier to the systematic collection of the information required to manage this hazard. The potential for a consumer electronic device to be used to estimate whole-body vibration was assessed by collecting 58 simultaneous pairs of acceleration measurements in three dimensions from a fifth-generation iPod Touch and gold standard whole-body vibration measurement devices, while a range of heavy mining equipment was operated at three surface coal mines. The results suggest that accelerometer data gathered from a consumer electronic device are able to be used to measure whole-body vibration amplitude with 95% confidence of ±0.

Whole-body vibration exposure of haul truck drivers at a surface coal mine.

Unlabelled: Haul truck drivers at surface mines are exposed to whole-body vibration for extended periods. Thirty-two whole-body vibration measurements were gathered from haul trucks under a range of normal operating conditions. Measurements taken from 30 of the 32 trucks fell within the health guidance caution zone defined by ISO2631-1 for an 8 h daily exposure suggesting, according to ISO2631-1, that "caution with respect to potential health risks is indicated".

Using consumer electronic devices to estimate whole-body vibration exposure.

The cost and complexity of commercially available devices for measuring whole-body vibration is a barrier to the systematic collection of the information required to manage this hazard at workplaces. The potential for a consumer electronic device to be used to estimate whole-body vibration was assessed by use of an accelerometer calibrator, and by collecting 42 simultaneous pairs of measurements from a fifth-generation iPod Touch and one of two gold standard vibration measurement devices (Svantech SV111 [Svantech, Warsaw, Poland] or Brüel & Kjær 4447 [Brüel & Kjær Sound & Vibration Measurement A/S, Nærum, Denmark]) while driving light vehicles on a variety of different roadway surfaces. While sampling rate limitations make the accelerometer data collected from the iPod Touch unsuitable for frequency analysis, the vibration amplitudes recorded are sufficiently accurate (errors less than 0.

[Franz Joseph Gall and his "talking skulls" established the basis of modern brain sciences].

The anatomist and brain scientist Franz Joseph Gall (1758-1828) developed the "phrenology" in the early 19(th) century. At this time, his new teachings were more seen as a temporary fashion than science and were discredited. No more than hundred years ago, it was realised that the phrenology established the basis of modern brain sciences.

Endoscopic treatment of acute gastric volvulus causing cardiac tamponade.

Acute gastric volvulus occurs when the stomach, or part of the stomach, rotates more than 180 degrees, creating a closed-loop obstruction, which eventually leads to ischemia and strangulation. Acute gastric volvulus may occur in association with a diaphragmatic defect, diaphragmatic elevation of any cause, tumors of the pancreas and stomach, trauma, and congenital abnormalities of mesenteric fixation. We describe an unusual case of an acute gastric volvulus causing cardiac tamponade, which was successfully treated by endoscopic reduction of the gastric volvulus.

Renal vascular and biochemical responses to systemic renin inhibition in dogs at low renal perfusion pressure.

Renin is produced by the kidney and secreted into the systemic circulation. However, its biochemical and physiological role of regulating renal blood flow with changing renal perfusion pressure (RPP) is not fully understood. In this study, the function of the intrarenal renin for production of angiotensin (Ang) I and maintenance of vascular tone was evaluated in dogs under normal conditions and when the kidney was perfused at low RPP.

[Nocturnal enuresis and diurnal changes in extracellular fluid space in childhood].

Diurnal changes of extracellular body water in enuretic (n = 8) and healthy children (n = 8) and plasma antidiuretic hormone level were examined in enuretic patients, using bioelectrical impedance analysis and radioimmunoassay. In enuretic children day/night values of extracellular space were 25.81% (10.

Comparative evaluation of acute cerebral vasospasm by the microsphere and the angiography techniques.

Experimental subarachnoid haemorrhage (SAH) induces an acute transient cerebral vasospasm. The goal of this study was to compare angiography with iterative measurements of regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) by the microsphere technique for tracking acute cerebral vasospasm after SAH. Cerebral vasospasm was induced in anaesthetised rabbits by injecting 1 ml of fresh blood in the cisterna magna.

[Effect of somatostatin on kidney function].

The renal effect of cyclic somatostatin was studied on healthy subjects. The somatostatin was used at therapeutical dose in intravenous infusion. Somatostatin decreases the renal plasma flow, glomerular filtration rate, osmotic and free water clearances, sodium and potassium excretion and the tubular reabsorption of phosphorus while urinary osmolality increases.

Ro 40-5967, in contrast to diltiazem, does not reduce left ventricular contractility in rats with chronic myocardial infarction.

Ro 40-5967 is a new calcium antagonist that binds to the same binding site as verapamil but that has been shown to have a much lesser negative inotropic effect than verapamil. The goal of the present study was to compare the effects of Ro 40-5967 and diltiazem on left ventricular contractility in vitro and in vivo in normal rats and in rats with chronic myocardial infarction induced by ligating the left coronary artery. Left ventricular contractility was assessed in vitro in isolated perfused hearts and in vivo in conscious rats by measuring left ventricular dP/dtmax + and dP/dt at P 40.

Hemodynamic profile of Ro 40-5967 in conscious rats: comparison with diltiazem, verapamil, and amlodipine.

Ro 40-5967 is a new calcium antagonist that binds to the same site as verapamil but that has been shown to have a much lesser negative inotropic effect than verapamil. The goal of the present study was to assess the hemodynamic profile of Ro 40-5967 not only in comparison with verapamil but also with diltiazem and amlodipine. For this purpose, hemodynamic parameters were assessed in conscious normotensive rats by measuring mean arterial pressure (MAP), left ventricular (LV) dP/dtmax, and heart rate.

[Atrial natriuretic peptide in dumping syndrome].

The significance of atrial natriuretic factor (ANF) was investigated in the maintenance of the fluid volume in hypovolemia associated with dumping syndrome following gastric resection. The study was performed on 10 patients with Billroth II procedure. Ten age and sex matched patients--without previous gastric surgery served as controls.

19F MAS-NMR and solution chemical characterization of the reactions of fluoride with hydroxyapatite and powdered enamel.

Solution chemical and 19F magic angle spinning-nuclear magnetic resonance (MAS-NMR) methods have been utilized to study the effects of fluoride dose, fluoridating pH, and mineral surface area on the dynamics of fluoride reactivity with hydroxyapatite and powdered human dental enamel in vitro. Both solution chemical fluoride uptake and NMR measurements demonstrated that the reaction products of ionic fluoride with apatite include mixtures of FAP, FHAP, and CaF2, with increased amounts of CaF2 promoted by increased F concentration or decreased pH. NMR analysis showed FAP or FHAP as a reaction product of fluoride uptake under all conditions, regardless of whether CaF2 was formed, unambiguously demonstrating fluorite as an additive rather than substitute form of F reactivity.