Intensive communication therapy in aphasics: Is constraint useful?

[Is free plasmatic cortisol measurement useful in intensive care unit?].

Serum cortisol free fraction is responsible for its physiological function. Determination of serum total cortisol concentration does not allow accurate evaluation of hypothalamic pituitary adrenal axis when there is a quantitative variation in serum transcortin. Although free cortisol can be assayed by salivary or urinary cortisol measurements, these methods can not be easily applied in intensi...

Thyroxin Is Useful to Improve Sperm Motility

Objective The aim of this study was to evaluate the non-genomic action of thyroxin on sperm kinetic and its probable use to improve sperm recovery after applying an enrichment method like “swim-up” in comparison with the available one, pentoxifylline. MaterialsAndMethods This is an experimental study. A total of 50 patients were recruited, followed by infertility consultation. Conventional sper...

Supplementary oxygen therapy in COPD: is it really useful?

Many patients with severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) develop hypoxaemia at rest when awake as their disease progresses. This may or may not be accompanied by hypercapnia but is a poor prognostic feature, independent of the forced expiratory volume in one second (FEV 1). 1 For many years the scientific study of COPD was driven by the need to gain a greater understanding of the ...

Editorial Supplementary oxygen therapy in COPD: is it really useful?

A speech centric mobile multimodal service useful for dyslectics and aphasics

Multimodality has the potential of benefiting non-disabled as well as disabled people. We have developed a speech-centric composite multimodal interface to a map-based information service on a mobile terminal. This interface to the service has proven useful for a severe dyslectic and an aphasic. These persons did not manage to use the ordinary public information service, neither on the web (tex...