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J Crit Care
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).
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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.
Early Hum Dev
January 2025
Vestibular and Oculomotor Research Group, Department of Neuroscience, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Electronic address:
Background And Aims: Preterm birth increases the risk of neurodevelopmental impairments, such as Cerebral Visual Impairment (CVI), which affects visual processing. Assessing visual functions in young children is challenging with traditional methods that often rely on verbal/motor responses. The aim of the study was to investigate the developmental trajectories of Visual Orienting Functions (VOF) in children born very preterm (<32 weeks gestational age) between 2 and 5 years corrected age (CA) using eye tracking.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFStudy Question: Do recent changes in European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE) clinical guidelines result in more comprehensive diagnosis of women with endometriosis?
Summary Answer: The latest shift in clinical guidelines results in diagnosis of more women with endometriosis but current ESHRE diagnostic criteria do not capture a sizable percentage of women with the disease.
What Is Known Already: Historically, laparoscopy was the gold standard for diagnosing endometriosis, a complex gynecological condition marked by a heterogeneous set of symptoms that vary widely among women. More recently, changes in clinical guidelines have shifted to incorporate imaging-based approaches such as transvaginal sonography and magnetic resonance imaging.
J Med Case Rep
January 2025
Department of Surgery, University Hospital "Tsaritsa Joanna - ISUL", Medical University, Str. "Byalo More" No 8, Sofia, Bulgaria.
Background: McKittrick-Wheelock syndrome is an uncommon and severe disorder caused by large hypersecretory tumors located in the distal colorectal area. Excessive secretion from adenomas is an unusual clinical manifestation that leads to severe electrolyte and fluid depletion, subsequently resulting in kidney injury. Successful treatment relies on quick and cooperative decision-making for timely intervention.
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