Conducted in a 77-bed long-term-care facility, this study compared the costs of implementing an intensive pressure ulcer prevention protocol plus the calculated costs of treatment before and after implementing the protocol. A total of 69 patients comprised the preprotocol sample; 16 of them developed 26 ulcers. The postprotocol sample consisted of 63 patient, 3 of whom developed 5 ulcers. The 6...

The evolution equation of cosmic density perturbation of a spin dominated universe in Einstein-Cartan gravity is obtained.Examples of inflationary cosmologies with spin are also given where we compute the density perturbations in terms of redshift and show that spintorsion effects produce a growth on the inhomogeneity of the universe as the redshift is high.Spin-torsion effects are redshifted o...

Methods and Results We recorded ventilation, end-tidal oxygen (PETO2) and carbon dioxide partial pressures, RR interval and blood pressure during progressive isocapnic hypoxia, before and after 14 days of: (a) interval hypoxic training (three to four periods of 7 min progressive hypoxia in 1 h, each day) in 12 healthy men (training group); (b) breathing into a spirometer by six age-matched male...

PURPOSE To determine whether postoperative ocular inflammation is less after femtosecond laser-assisted cataract surgery than after conventional phacoemulsification (manual) cataract surgery. SETTING Private clinic, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. DESIGN Prospective consecutive investigator-masked nonrandomized parallel cohort study. METHODS Consecutive cataract patients who had femtosec...

BACKGROUND Moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) has been negatively associated with cardiometabolic risk. We sought to determine if MVPA interacts with body-mass index (BMI) and waist circumference (WC) in determining cardiometabolic risk in adolescents. METHODS This cross-sectional study included cardiometabolic risk (blood pressure [BP], nonfasting lipids) screening and a 7-day rec...

This retrospective study aims to evaluate the effect of prolonged methylprednisolone (MP) therapy on the mortality of patients with moderate-to-severe paraquat (PQ) poisoning after the pulse treatment.We performed a retrospective analysis of patients with acute moderate-to-severe PQ poisoning that were admitted to the emergency department from May 2012 to August 2016. Out of 138 patients, 60 we...

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Morinda citrifolia is a medicinal plant used to treat diabetes and liver diseases. The fermented fruit juice of the M. Citrifolia (optical density = 1.25) was used to study the hypoglycemic and hepatoprotective properties in diabetes-induced rats. The rats were randomly distributed into 4 groups (control, diabetic experimental, diabetic standard, and diabetic untreated) of 6 each. Diabetes was ...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the effects of Kaua'i Care Transition Intervention (KCTI), a patient-centered intervention program, on reducing hospital readmission rates among patients 60 years or older. STUDY DESIGN A prospective quasi-experimental prepost design. METHODS Hospital admissions data for the year 2010 (January 1 to December 31) served as the baseline data and were used to identify pat...

There is reason to suspect that 4C 41.17, a radio galaxy at z = 3:800 0:003, contains a large quantity of enriched molecular gas. We describe a search for CO in 4C 41.17, taking advantage of the fact that the J = 1 ! 0 rotational transition is redshifted into the radio-frequency band centred at 23 GHz for 3:80 < z < 4:25. There is no sign of CO line emission in our resulting spectrum, which cov...