Practices and Challenges of Home Care Pressure Ulcer Management;Perception of Home-visit Nurses Who Have Completed the Specified Medical Acts Training.

Purpose Of The Study: This study aims to clarify practices and challenges on pressure ulcer management as perceived by home-visit nurses who have completed the specified medical acts training.

Methods: We gathered 8 home-visit nurses who have completed the training in Japan. First-author conducted in-depth, semi-structured individual interviews, asking for their insights on home care pressure ulcer management.

Effect of daily sedative interruption on sleep stages of mechanically ventilated patients receiving midazolam by infusion.

Daily sedative interruption (DSI) may reduce excessive sedation and shorten the duration of mechanical ventilation. It is not clear, however, how DSI affects sleep characteristics. For patients receiving mechanical ventilation, we compared the effect on sleep quality of DSI and continuous sedation (CS).

Clinical significance of Galectin-3 in clear cell renal cell carcinoma.

Overexpression of galectin-3 in a variety of cancer cell lines has been shown to correlate with tumor progression and metastasis. In this study, we investigated the expression of galectin-3 in clear cell renal cell carcinoma (CC-RCC) and evaluated the relationship between galectin-3 expression levels and the clinicopathological features of CC-RCC. Expression of galectin-3 in the kidney cancer cell lines Caki-1, Caki-2, A704, ACHN and KPK-1 were evaluated using western blot analysis, while galectin-3 expression in CC-RCC tissues and normal parenchyma were measured by real-time PCR and immunohistochemistry.