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Clin Biochem
January 2025
Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Program, Health Sciences Centre, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada; Memorial University of Newfoundland, Health Sciences Centre, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Electronic address:
Purpose: Rapid determination of cerebrospinal fluid. (CSF) glucose and lactate is required by emergency rooms and intensive care units. Long turnaround time (TAT) on test results negatively impacts timely diagnosis and treatment of neurological infections like meningitis.
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January 2025
Department of Critical Care, School of Medicine, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia; Department of Intensive Care, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, Australia; Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Research Centre, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; Data Analytics Research and Evaluation, Austin Hospital, Melbourne, Australia. Electronic address:
Background: Hypernatremia is relatively common in acutely ill patients and associated with mortality. Guidelines recommend a slow rate of correction (≤ 0.5 mmol/L per hour).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFGeriatr Nurs
January 2025
School of Psychology and Counselling, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia.
Objective: Not much is known about how one's understanding of words may differ with age. Here we explore how epistemic adverbs - as used in health communication to indicate degrees of uncertainty and risk - are understood by older and younger monolingual speakers of Australian English.
Methods: We used an online dissimilarity rating task with sentence pairs presented as first and second doctor opinions which differed only with respect to the embedded epistemic adverbs (e.
Int J Surg Case Rep
January 2025
Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, St. Paul's Hospital Millennium Medical College, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Introduction: Glomus tympanicum is a benign tumor classified under the group glomus tumors, and is also known as paragangliomas.
Case Presentation: A 52 years old woman presented with unilateral pulsatile tinnitus and hearing loss. She had a visible reddish mass behind the eardrum; Temporal bone CT scans suggested middle ear mass secondary to Glomus Tympanicum tumors.
J Environ Manage
January 2025
Shaanxi Atmospheric Observation Technical Support Center, Xi'an, 710000, China. Electronic address:
Accurate meteorological observation data is of great importance to human production activities. Meteorological observation systems have been advancing toward automation, intelligence, and informatization. Yet, instrumental malfunctions and unstable sensor node resources could cause significant deviations of data from the actual characteristics it should reflect.
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