The Vacuum Flushing Leech

FLUshing in the bathroom

There are effective vaccines against multiple extracellular bacterial pathogens, many of which contain surface antigens or toxoids of potent secreted exotoxins. But despite successful preclinical studies and multiple human trials using Staphylococcus aureus surface antigens as vaccine candidates, none have protected humans against S. aureus infections. In 2007, the CDC published that S. aureus ...

Flushing out the diagnosis.

A 30-year-old man presented with a 4-h history of severe headache, vomiting, diarrhoea and epigastric pain. 1 week previously, he had undergone a left hip arthroscopy in another hospital. He had no other medical history and his only medication was naproxen for post-operative pain. His blood pressure was 70mmHg systolic, pulse rate 130 bpm, respiratory rate 24 bpm and temperature was 38.38C. Phy...

Complications of leech therapy

Objective: The principle of the use of leeches is associated with traditional medicine of many countries and its application has different philosophies for use in different areas of the body. Leeches, with all the benefits, can have dangers. Materials and Methods: A review of complications of leech therapy was done based on English articles indexed in the...

CVAD Flushing Literature

The computational leech.

The local bending reflex of the leech computes a well-defined sensorimotor input-output function in which each of several unique patterns of sensory input elicits a unique pattern of motoneuron activity. Interneurons in the reflex respond to most input patterns and contribute to most motor patterns, suggesting a distributed processing mechanism for the reflex. This suggestion is supported by mo...