BACKGROUND A "degloving injury" is referred to as seperation of cutaneous tissue from the deeper structures of the body. Although many methods have been defined to reform the tissue integrity; defatting and readaptation of the avulsed flap still comprises one of the most effective methods. METHODS From 2000-2012, we treated a total of nine patients with avulsed extremities with defatting and ...

background traumatic brain injury (tbi) is an important public health problem throughout the world. objectives the aim of this study was to assess repeated glasgow coma scale (gcs) scores in predicting the severity of tbi and patients’ survival. patients and methods in this longitudinal study used a total sample of 239 patients, all of whom were hospitalized with traumatic brain injuries. subje...

Unmanned Aircraft Systems are about to replace human pilots not only in dangerous, dull or tedious missions but generally where the human being is the limiting factor including size and economic issues. There is a wide range of applications for which UAVs have to be operated in non-segregated airspace in general and uncontrolled airspace in particular, regardless of civil, governmental or milit...

BACKGROUND Hypoxemia is common during one-lung ventilation(OLV), predominantly due to transpulmonary shunt. None of the strategies tried showed consistent results. We evaluated the effectiveness of ventilating the operated, non-dependent lung (NDL) with small tidal volumes in improving the oxygenation during OLV. METHODS 30 ASA 1 and 2 patients undergoing elective, open thoracotomy were studi...

A stability indicating reversed phase ultra performance liquid chromatography (RP-UPLC) method was developed for simultaneous determination of ambroxol hydrochloride (AMB), cetirizine hydrochloride (CTZ), methylparaben (MP) and propylparaben (PP) in liquid pharmaceutical formulation. The desired chromatographic separation was achieved on an Agilent Eclipse plus C18, 1.8 μm (50 × 2.1 mm) column ...

A simple, rapid, selective, sensitive, linear, precise and accurate RP-HPLC method was developed and validated for the determination of raltegravir in bulk and in tablet dosage forms. Seperation of the drug was achieved on a reverse phase Symmetry C8 column (150mmx4.6mm I.D., 5 m particle size) at ambient temperature using a mobile phase consisting of phosphate buffer pH 2.5 and acetonitrile i...

A flow method of high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) seperation and chemiluminescence (CL) detection for sensitive vardenafil analysis in dietary supplements was developed. The vardenafil separation was achieved on a C18 column at 30°C using ethanol-H(3)PO(4) and ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid disodium salt (Na(2)EDTA) aqueous solution (25 : 75, v/v%) as mobile phase. The followed co...

The photoplethysmogram (PPG) is an extremely useful wearable sensing medical diagnostic tool. However, the PPG signal becomes highly corrupted when the wearer is in motion, rendering the measured signal useless. This thesis develops an adaptive motion artifact reduction scheme to recover the underlying physiologic information from the corrupted signal using a collocated accelerometer as a motio...

an experimental database is compiled in order to fingerprint the scales formed over the hot surfaces of heat exchangers, in cooling water systems or other systems with similar chemistry. to collect these data, a dynamic simulating pilot plant was designed with considerable application flexibility among which simultaneous flow of water with different velocity and heat fluxes to three simulating ...