479 The Editor, A 7‐year‐old male child visited preoperative clinic for preanesthetic evaluation. He was posted for urological procedure. On history, he was first child of normal parents. On examination, he was 35 kg in weight and having course facial features. At birth, he was diagnosed to have high anorectal malformations (ARMs), penoscrotal hypospadias, polydactyly, bilateral congenital tali...

An inexpensive yet portable device for calibrating four different flow meters in the undergraduate fluid mechanics laboratory was designed and constructed. The apparatus contains a rotameter, a turbine-type meter, a venturi meter, and an orifice meter. All four meters are calibrated simultaneously using a volumetric measuring tank. Results obtained by undergraduate students are presented, and a...

Claudia Fortuna, Maria Elena Remoli, Caterina Rizzo, Eleonora Benedetti, Cristiano Fiorentini, Antonino Bella, Claudio Argentini, Francesca Farchi, Concetta Castilletti, Maria Rosaria Capobianchi, Lorenzo Zammarchi, Alessandro Bartoloni, Nadia Zanchetta, Maria Rita Gismondo, Luca Ceccherini Nelli, Giustina Vitale, Franco Baldelli, Pierlanfranco D’Agaro, Giuseppe Sodano, Giovanni Rezza, the Arbo...

The development of hydrodynamics metamaterials and transformation has enriched the methods fluid flow control. In proposed study, coupling rotation amplification functions, hydrodynamic rotating concentrators with tensorized viscosity are designed based on hydrodynamics. Through numerical simulations, we have demonstrated that can simultaneously magnify rotate velocity in creeping flows. centra...

BACKGROUND Postoperative continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) can improve lung function. The aim of our study was to assess the efficacy of prophylactic CPAP on the Pa(O2)/FI(O2) ratio measured the day after surgery in patients undergoing lung resection surgery (LRS). METHODS The study population comprised 110 patients undergoing LRS. On arrival in the postanaesthesia care unit (PACU), ...

Objectives: A multi-site study evaluated the clinical performance of the Roche LightCycler PCR assay in the detection of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in comparison to routine chromogenic agar culture method (BD BBL CHROMagar II). Two other variables were also investigated: to establish if screening the throat increases the detection rate of MRSA colonisation; and, to deter...