background and objectives: hydrocortisone is widely used in septic shock cases resistant to fluid and vasopressor therapy. it may result in increased blood pressure and survival. however the efficacy is no established among patients with severe burn and septic shock. accordingly it was assessed in this study. materials and methods: the patients older than 14 years of age with resistant septic s...

a b s t r a c t a 36-year-old male patient with posttraumatic cervical cord damage and resultant quadriparesis, demonstrated hypotension and periods of bradycardia. for most of his two-month stay in the intensive care unit (icu), he was dependent on dopamine support to maintain hemodynamic stability. keeping in mind evidence from the literature, that electrostimulation of acupoints neiguan (pc ...

Abstract Reactive materials applied to warhead fragments or charge liner will be driven by strong detonation, so their mechanical behavior and energy release characteristics affected a certain extent. In this paper, dynamic static tests impact initiation experiment were carried out on the detonation-loaded Al/Ni reactive material. Compared with that have not subjected explosive shock, it is fou...

A 78-year-old woman visited the division of cardiovascular disease in our hospital. She underwent a cardiac catheter examination, and a Swan-Ganz catheter was inserted. Several minutes later, she developed anaphylactic shock. She had no past history of latex allergy, but did have a banana allergy. Skin prick tests showed a positive reaction to an extract of latex gloves and an extract of the ba...

We analyze the ignition delay in hydrogen-oxygen combustion, and the important chain branching reaction H + O2 → OH + O that occurs behind the shock waves in shock-tube experiments. We apply a stochastic Bayesian approach (Beck et al., 1998 and Cheung et al., 2009) to quantify uncertainties in the theoretical model and experimental data. The approach involves a statistical inverse problem which...

Defatted human tubercle bacilli, Aoyama B strain, were extracted with 0.1 n NaOH for 24 hr, and the crude polysaccharide fraction was precipitated by the addition of 5 volumes of ethyl alcohol. A yield of 17.8 g of crude polysaccharides was obtained from 800 g of bacilli. The crude polysaccharide was further fractionated into seven fractions by fractional precipitation with ethyl alcohol. Each ...

INTRODUCTION TO AIR BLAST MEASUREMENTS An explosion in air is a process by which a rapid release of energy generates a pressure wave of finite amplitude. The energy source can be anything that generates a violent reaction when initiated. This includes: chemical or nuclear materials, gases (high pressure gasstorage vessels, steam boilers), or electricity (spark gap, rapid vaporization of a metal...

Starting from a simple kinetic model for chemical reaction, multi–temperature reactive Euler equations are derived for physical regimes in which evolution is driven by elastic collisions within the same species and mechanical relaxation is faster than the thermal one. The achieved hydrodynamic equations, where all inhomogeneous exchange rates take analytical closed form for simple collision mod...

1. Typical lethal anaphylactic shock has been produced in guinea pigs by means of the specific carbohydrate derived from a human strain of tubercle bacillus. The phenomenon has been observed in animals both actively and passively sensitized. 2. Typical contractions have been evoked in the isolated uterus of guinea pigs upon the addition of the specific carbohydrate to the bath. 3. True anaphyla...