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Sensors (Basel)
August 2024
Surfix Diagnostics, Agro Business Park 2, 6708 PW Wageningen, The Netherlands.
Aquaculture is expected to play a vital role in solving the challenge of sustainably providing the growing world population with healthy and nutritious food. Pathogen outbreaks are a major risk for the sector, so early detection and a timely response are crucial. This can be enabled by monitoring the pathogen levels in aquaculture facilities.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFReg Anesth Pain Med
April 2024
Department of Surgery, Copenhagen University Hospital - North Zealand, Hillerod, Denmark.
Background And Objectives: The transversus abdominis plane block (TAP) can be applied using different approaches, resulting in varying cutaneous analgesic distributions. This study aimed to assess the cutaneous sensory block area (CSBA) after ultrasound-guided TAP (US-TAP) using the subcostal approach.
Methods: Thirty patients undergoing elective laparoscopic cholecystectomy received a subcostal US-TAP with 20 mL 2.
Eur J Cancer
August 2022
Universite' de Paris, INSERM U976, AP-HP, Dermatology Department, Saint Louis Hospital, Paris, France. Electronic address:
Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC) is a rare skin cancer, accounting for less than 1% of all cutaneous malignancies. It is found predominantly in white populations and risk factors include advanced age, ultraviolet exposure, male sex, immunosuppression, such as AIDS/HIV infection, haematological malignancies or solid organ transplantation, and Merkel cell polyomavirus infection. MCC is an aggressive tumour with 26% of cases presenting lymph node involvement at diagnosis and 8% with distant metastases.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFScand J Trauma Resusc Emerg Med
October 2020
Institute for Emergency Medicine, University-Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Arnold-Heller-Str. 3, 24105, Kiel, Germany.
Background: Variation in the incidence, survival rate and factors associated with survival after cardiac arrest in Europe is reported. Some studies have tried to fill the knowledge gap regarding the epidemiology of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in Europe but were unable to identify reasons for the reported differences. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to describe European Emergency Medical Systems, particularly from the perspective of country and ambulance service characteristics, cardiac arrest identification, dispatch, treatment, and monitoring.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCrit Care
April 2015
Centre for Critical Illness Research, Lawson Health Research Institute, 800 Commissioners Rd East, London, ON, N6C 6B5, Canada.
Introduction: Sepsis-associated encephalopathy (SAE) is a state of acute brain dysfunction in response to a systemic infection. We propose that systemic inflammation during sepsis causes increased adhesion of leukocytes to the brain microvasculature, resulting in blood-brain barrier dysfunction. Thus, our objectives were to measure inflammatory analytes in plasma of severe sepsis patients to create an experimental cytokine mixture (CM), and to use this CM to investigate the activation and interactions of polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMN) and human cerebrovascular endothelial cells (hCMEC/D3) in vitro.
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