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Diabetic retinopathy: Fundamentals for primary care

Deborah Broadbent is Director of Diabetic Eye Screening, Liverpool Diabetes Eye Centre, and Honorary Clinical Lecturer, Department of Eye and Vision Science, Royal Liverpool University Hospital, Prescot Street, Liverpool. Diabetic retinopathy is a leading cause of visual impairment in the Western world. Its pathophysiology involves a complex inter-related sequence of events giving rise to clini...

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FUNDAMENTALS OF COMBAT CASUALTY CARE Contributing Authors

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Fundamentals of aerosol therapy in critical care

Drug dosing in critically ill patients is challenging due to the altered drug pharmacokinetics-pharmacodynamics associated with systemic therapies. For many drug therapies, there is potential to use the respiratory system as an alternative route for drug delivery. Aerosol drug delivery can provide many advantages over conventional therapy. Given that respiratory diseases are the commonest cause...

Physics fundamentals for ITER

The design of an experimental thermonuclear reactor requires both cutting-edge technology and physics predictions precise enough to carry forward the design. The past few years of worldwide physics studies have seen great progress in understanding, innovation and integration. We will discuss this progress and the remaining issues in several key physics areas. (1) Transport and plasma confinemen...