Abstarct Background: Base deficit is a non-respiratory indicator of acid base status that evaluates the severity of shock at the cellular level. Base deficit results from cellular metabolism of pyruvate under anaerobic conditions. In this situation, base deficit is a sensitive marker of the magnitude of anaerobic metabolism and tissue oxygen deficit [1]. Several studies have shown a strong pos...

BACKGROUND Childhood falls result in considerable morbidity, mortality and health service use. Despite this, little evidence exists on protective factors or effective falls prevention interventions in young children. OBJECTIVES To estimate ORs for three types of medically attended fall injuries in young children in relation to safety equipment, safety behaviours and hazard reduction and explo...

Nuclei close to the N = Z line in the region near A = 80 play a special role in nuclear astrophysics since the rapid proton (rp) capture process is passing right through them (see Fig. 1). The rp-process, a sequence of rapid proton captures and β-decays, proceeds along the N = Z line up to Ni and it can continue ending in a SnSbTe cycle either in explosive X-ray bursts or in a steady state burn...

Abstract The timing of Quaternary uplift evolution the Simbruini range (Central Apennines, Italy) is poorly known due to lack reliable chronological constraints post‐orogenic continental clastic units, deposited after upper Messinian thrust‐top facies, and tectonic events. In this regard, we identified main geomorphic markers, including several levels whose plano‐altimetric projection along riv...

The switching waveforms of a series of power MOSFET devices called Logic Level FETs (L2FETs) and featuring a 5V gate drive are presented and contrasted with those of the more conventional 10V gate drive devices. A new method of characterizing MOSFET switching performance is discussed in which the MOSFET is treated as a vertical JFET driven in cascade from a low voltage lateral MOS. The 2:1 adva...

BACKGROUND Anaphylaxis is a medical emergency that requires the intramuscular injection of adrenaline using an adrenaline auto-injector (AAI). This study compared the robustness and performance characteristics of three AAIs available in Europe. METHODS Three AAIs (Jext(®), EpiPen(®), and Anapen(®)) were tested in terms of the force needed to activate the AAIs, exposed needle length, injection...

Every year over 11 million falls are registered. Falls play a critical role in the deterioration of the health of the elderly and the subsequent need of care. This paper presents a fall detection system running on a smartwatch (F2D). Data from the accelerometer is collected, passing through an adaptive threshold-based algorithm which detects patterns corresponding to a fall. A decision module t...

BACKGROUND the STOPP criteria advise against the use of long-acting benzodiazepines (LBs). OBJECTIVE to study whether LBs are associated with a higher fall risk than short-acting benzodiazepines (SBs) (elimination half-life ≤ 10 h). METHODS we used base-line data and prospective fall follow-up from the Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam, a longitudinal cohort study including 1,509 community...