BACKGROUND The Surgical Care Improvement Project (SCIP) Inf-9 guideline promotes removal of indwelling urinary catheters (IUCs) within 48 hours of surgery. OBJECTIVES To determine whether a correlation exists between SCIP Inf-9 compliance and postoperative urinary tract infection (UTI) rates and whether an association exists between UTI rates and SCIP Inf-9 exemption status. DESIGN Retrospect...

Abstract Background Understandings of subtypes atypical atrioventricular nodal reentrant tachycardia (AVNRT) using variants slow pathway (SP) are still growing. Inferolateral (inf-lat-) left atrial (LA) SP is a rare variant extending into an inf-lat-LA along the mitral annulus (MA). Purpose To characterize unknown subtype fast-slow (F/S-) AVNRT inf-lat-LA-SP as retrograde limb (inf-lat-LA-F/S-A...

OBJECTIVE Tumor necrosis factor (TNF) antagonists fall into 2 classes:etanercept (ETA) is a soluble TNF receptor, while infliximab (INF) and adalimumab (ADA) are monoclonal antibodies against TNF. All 3 drugs are effective in treating rheumatoid arthritis. However, these agents have been associated with an increased risk of granulomatous infections, such as tuberculosis and histoplasmosis. Seve...

a plant viral vector engineered from an in vivo infectious clone of zucchini yellow mosaic virus(zymv) was used to express the human interferon-gamma (inf-γ) in planta. the inf-γ gene was in frame inserted between the p1 and hc-pro orfs of the zymv vector. the infectious activity of the vector was approved by rubbing the plasmid on chenopodium quino a and observing local lesions. individual les...

= {This paper presents a calibration method of PAR Quantum Sensor. In theory PAR quantum sensor can be precise calibrated by spectroradiometers. The spectroradiometers were calibrated against standard lamps traceable to the National Standards. This method is validated by experiment. There are some conflicting views in different version specification on quantum sensor Li-cor. The is not any word...