The relationship between pain and the newborn’s microcirculation has been a poorly understood field of research. Introduction of orthogonal polarization spectral (OPS) imaging and sidestream dark field (SDF) imaging to clinical medicine has opened a new field of monitoring and target treatment in various neonatal diseases and states. The non-invasiveness and safety of these bedside technologies...

Background Guidelines recommend that patients presenting with acute severe asthma with life-threatening features receive the necessary high doses of b2-agonists via the nebulized route.The SideStream Plus (SS+; Philips Respironics) is a breath-enhanced nebulizer designed to maximize respirable output, while minimizing treatment time [1]. Prior to the introduction of a new version of nebulizer, ...

Simultaneous ammonium–nitrogen (NH₄⁺–N) removal and orthophosphate–phosphorus (PO₄–P) biomineralization was studied in two granular sludge sequencing batch reactors treating urban sidestream centrate through the one-stage partial nitritation–anaerobic ammonium oxidation (anammox) process. By adding an external source of calcium, concomitant conversion rates up to 0.32 g NH₄⁺–N/(L·days) 12 mg PO...