A 'Y'‑shaped connector as an indispensable component of paediatric bronchoscopy mask: A novel innovation! Sir, Fibre‑optic bronchoscopy (FOB) has widespread diagnostic and therapeutic role in the form of its use in difficult intubation, bronchoalveolar lavage or biopsies. FOB‑guided intubation in paediatric patients with difficult airway could be a challenge and the presence of craniofacial dys...

Regulation of signaling pathways in the cell often involves multidomain allosteric enzymes that are able to adopt alternate active or inactive conformations in response to specific stimuli. It is therefore of great interest to elucidate the energetic and structural determinants that govern the conformational plasticity of these proteins. In this study, free-energy computations have been used to...

The Taurus has a MacPherson strut type of suspension in the front and rear of the car, as shown in Figure 1. The various types of joints in the suspension are modeled with connector elements. These specialized elements provide an easy and versatile way to model physical mechanisms with point-to-point connections that can exhibit complex kinematic and kinetic relationships. A list of model joint...

This was a multicenter, quasiexperimental, 140-month, acute care study comparing central line-associated bloodstream infection rates associated with positive or negative intravenous connectors to a zero fluid displacement connector. A decrease in central line-associated bloodstream infections was found after changing from either negative or positive intravenous connectors to the zero fluid disp...

Catheter infections are a significant problem in pediatric hemodialysis. To reduce infection rates, the use of closed luer-lock access connectors, which create a mechanically and microbiogically closed system while allowing unobstructed blood flow, was implemented Infection rates fell from 7.8 infections per 1000 patient days to 3.65 infections per 1000 patient days after the switch to the clos...

The Taurus has a MacPherson strut type of suspension in the front and rear of the car, as shown in Figure 1. The various types of joints in the suspension are modeled with connector elements. These specialized elements provide an easy and versatile way to model physical mechanisms with point-to-point connections that can exhibit complex kinematic and kinetic relationships. A list of model joint...

who required only oxygen for a brief period, and the same facemask had been used. None of them had developed any signs ofinfection. On the initial screening S pneumoniae type 6 was isolated from the T piece connector of the face mask (figure). Repeat examination ofthe same facemask and connector seven days later yielded S pneumoniae type 6 from the thread of the T piece, which was contaminated ...