Development of an environmentally acceptable volatile organic compounds recovery and reuse system based on vacuum spray flash with dibasic acid esters as absorbents.

We used dibasic acid esters as the absorbent for a volatile organic compounds (VOC) recovery and reuse system geared mainly toward VOCs from painting and presswork. The system consists of three elements: absorption using dibasic acid esters, separation by vacuum spray flash method, and recovery by condensation. The concentration of both ethyl acetate (EtAc) and isopropyl alcohol (IPA) decreased around 90% at room temperature.

[Magnetic resonance imaging could predict delayed encephalopathy after acute carbon monoxide intoxication].

Objectives: Some patients with acute carbon monoxide (CO) intoxication relapse into severe neuropsychiatric symptomes several weeks after the lucid interval. This serious neurological sequelae, delayed encephalopathy, is difficult to anticipate. Although magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) was reported to show characteristic findings, there has been few information on MRI during the lucid interval.

Differences in antithrombin III activities by administration method in critical patients with disseminated intravascular coagulation: a pharmacokinetic study.

Pharmacokinetic (PK) data for antithrombin III (AT) are limited in the critical patients. We therefore performed PK analysis using a two-compartment model and also examined whether plasma AT activity would change depending on two administration methods, AT agent at 500 U/8 h (divided group) or 1,500 U/24 h (combined group) for 3 days, a regulated dosage for disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) treatment in Japan, in critical patients with DIC. Clinical prospective randomized study.

Elevated serum beta-D-glucan level and depressed neutrophil phagocytosis in a heatstroke patient.

Endotoxemia has been reported as a mechanism for the fatal sequela after heatstroke. Subsequent disseminated fungal infection in a heatstroke patient has been also described. Beta-D-glucan, a constituent of the fungal cell wall, is an early diagnostic measure for fungal infection.