First Aid for a Drowning Child

Acanthamoeba Infection in a Drowning Child

BACKGROUND Acanthamoeba infection is a potential life-threatening complication of drowning. The management of drowning-associated Acanthamoeba infection remains controversial. Survival reports on Acanthamoeba infection have been on case reports only. CASE DETAILS A 2-year-old, previously healthy Indonesian boy presented with decreased consciousness and inadequate breathing, followingdrowning....

[Drowning on the Aquitaine coast: organization of aid for the drowning].

First aid for a damaged proteome.

Proteins receive constant insults from environmental stress or disease, but the overall integrity of the proteome remains largely intact, owing to a system that maintains protein homeostasis. The concept of a proteostasis network was proposed by Balch, Morimoto, Dillin and Kelly (Science 319, 916–919, 2008) and integrated principles of chaperone-mediated protein folding and ubiquitin-mediated d...

First Aid

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First-aid supplies for backpacking.

A portable first-aid kit should be carried in the backpack of campers, hikers, and anyone who expects to spend time in a remote and unoccupied area. That is the recommendation found in lay texts dealing with medical care, in backpacking books, as well as in articles appearing in popular magazines. It goes without saying that it is far better to practise safety and prevention than to have to use...