TOPIC: Critical Care TYPE: Medical Student/Resident Case Reports INTRODUCTION: Introduction:Vasopressin is an antidiuretic hormone analog that has become important drug in the treatment of vasodilatory shock through its vasoconstrictive and water retention properties to maintain blood pressure. We present two cases where intravenous access was limited intramuscular (IM) vasopressin used for man...

In shilling attacks, an adversarial party injects a few fake user profiles into Recommender System (RS) so that the target item can be promoted or demoted. Although much effort has been devoted to developing attack methods, we find existing approaches are still far from practical. this paper, analyze properties practical method should have and propose new concept of Cross-system Attack. With id...

BACKGROUND AND AIM Two types of dressing, occlusive and exposure dressing, are commonly used in burn units. A dressing is said to be occlusive if a moist wound surface is maintained when the dressing is in place. This study was designed to compare the effectiveness of occlusive and exposure dressing in controlling burn infections. PATIENTS AND METHODS Two hundred patients with second-degree b...

AN EFFECTIVE skin preparation agent cleans away microbes, then continues to inhibit pathogen growth between dressing changes. For central venous access devices (CVADs), this has traditionally been accomplished with three alcohol swabsticks and three povidone-iodine swabsticks applied in concentric circles from the insertion site outward. But new guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control a...

We show that dressing polar molecules with a far-off-resonant optical field leads to new types of intermolecular potentials, which undergo a crossover from the inverse-power to oscillating behavior depending on the intermolecular distance, and whose parameters can be tuned by varying the laser intensity and wavelength. We present analytic expressions for the potential energy surfaces, thereby p...