The effects of short bouts of ergometric exercise for severely burned children in intensive care: A randomized controlled trial.

Objective: To determine the effects of short bouts of ergometric exercises on the number of days in the burn intensive care unit (ICU), body mass, and functional ambulation.

Design: Multi-center, randomized controlled trial.

Setting: Burn intensive care unit.

Palliative Sedation at Home: A Scoping Review.

Palliative Sedation (PS) is an effective measure for the relief of refractory symptoms in end-of-life patients. This intervention can be performed at home, respecting the patients' and their families' decisions. A scoping review was performed to map the available evidence in the literature on the performance of PS at home.

Functional (un-)Coupling: Impairment, Compensation, and Future Progression in Alzheimer's Disease.

Functional (un-)coupling (task-related change of functional connectivity) between different sites of the brain is a mechanism of general importance for cognitive processes. In Alzheimer's disease (AD), prior research identified diminished cortical connectivity as a hallmark of the disease. However, little is known about the relation between the amount of functional (un-)coupling and cognitive performance and decline in AD.

Proportion of patients eligible for statin therapy substantially varies between different cardiovascular disease risk calculators and guidelines used.

Because people living with HIV (PLWH) have an elevated risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD), prevention of CVD should be integrated in to HIV care. In this study, we compared the agreement between three risk scores and evaluated the indication for statin therapy based on guidelines of the American Heart Association and European AIDS Clinical Society. This study is a cross-sectional, single-center study.

Spinal Surgery Site Infection Leading to Implant Loosening Is Influenced by the Number of Prior Operations.

Study Design: Retrospective Cohort Study.

Objectives: Spinal surgery site infection and chronic implant infection are possible causes for ongoing pain, implant loosening, and failed back surgery syndrome. Evidence of chronic infection was found in 29.

Supine equilibration of extracellular fluid in peritoneal dialysis varies with intra-abdominal pressure.

Background: Increased intra-abdominal pressure (PIA) leads to venous congestion in splanchnic and adjoining circulations. The aim is to examine whether PIA in peritoneal dialysis (PD) affects the mobilization of extracellular fluid from the lower body in supine body position.

Methods: Patients were studied during a regular peritoneal equilibration test (PET) in supine body position using multifrequency bioimpedance analysis to determine extracellular resistance and absolute volume overload (AVO) in wrist-to-ankle (W2A) as well as in ankle-to-ankle (A2A) configurations.