With IHEEM celebrating its 70th Anniversary this month, HEJ editor, Jonathan Baillie, recently met the Institute's oldest surviving Past-President, Lawrence Turner OBE, who, having in 1964 established a small engineering business producing some of the NHS's earliest nurse call systems from the basement of his three-storey West Midlands home, has since seen the company, Static Systems Group, grow to become one of the U.K. market-leaders in its field. The Institute's President from 1979-1981, he looked back, during a fascinating two-hour discussion, at his time in the role, talked through some of the key technological and other changes he has seen in the past five decades, reflected on an interesting and varied career, and considered some of the very different current-day challenges that today's IHEEM President, and the Institute as a whole, face.
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J Colloid Interface Sci
January 2025
College of Light Industry and Food Engineering, Nanjing Forestry University, Jiangsu Co-Innovation Center for Efficient Processing and Utilization of Forest Resources, Nanjing 210037 China. Electronic address:
Surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) is a highly sensitive technology to detect target analytes. The construction of dynamic "hot-spots" represents a significant approach to enhancing detection sensitivity. Herein, a hybrid plasma platform with dynamic "hot-spots" was developed for SERS recognition based on the assembly of gold nanospheres (AuNSs) on temperature-sensitive bacterial cellulose (BC) film grafted with poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (PNIPAM).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntensive Crit Care Nurs
January 2025
Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney Susan Wakil School of Nursing and Midwifery Camperdown NSW Australia; Western Sydney Local Health District, North Parramatta, NSW 2141, Australia. Electronic address:
Background: Emergency departments have high levels of uncertainty, long wait times, resource shortages, overcrowding and a constantly changing environment. Patient experience and patient safety are directly linked, yet levels of patient experience are stagnant. To improve emergency nursing care and patient experience, an emergency nursing framework HIRAID® (History including Infection risk, Red flags, Assessment, Interventions, Diagnostics, communication, and reassessment) was implemented in 29 Australian emergency departments.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAntibiotics (Basel)
January 2025
Department of Microbiology, Biological Sciences Center, State University of Londrina, Londrina 86057-970, Brazil.
The extensive use of antimicrobials in broiler production is changing the bird microbiota, fostering drug-resistant bacteria, and complicating therapeutic interventions, making the problem of multidrug resistance global. The monitoring of antimicrobial virulence and resistance genes are tools that have come to assist the breeding of these animals, directing possible treatments as already used in human medicine and collecting data to demonstrate possible dissemination of multidrug-resistant strains that may cause damage to industry and public health. This work aimed to monitor broiler farms in southern Brazil, isolating samples of and classifying them according to the profile of resistance to antimicrobials of interest to human and animal health.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAnimals (Basel)
January 2025
Department of Agricultural Economics, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506, USA.
Cattle are ruminant animals that produce enteric methane (CH) emissions as a byproduct of their natural digestive process. U.S.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAnal Methods
January 2025
Shaanxi Province Key Laboratory of New Drugs and Chinese Medicine Foundation Research, Pharmacy College, Shaanxi University of Chinese Medicine, No. 1, Shiji Avenue, Xi Xian New District, Xi'an City, 712046 Xianyang, Shaanxi Province, China.
Aim: this study aimed to examine the effect of different storage times (0, 7, 24, 57, and 119 days) on the volatile components of Shenling Baizhu powder across different preparation processes (Pharmacopoeia, ultra-micro pulverization-pulverization, and microparticle design methods). The findings offer insights to guide quality control measures for Shenling Baizhu powder.
Methods: gas chromatography-ion mobility spectrometry (GC-IMS) was employed to ascertain the volatile components in Shenling Baizhu powder at various storage times across different preparation processes.
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