We describe a portable four-channel array of chip-scale atomic magnetometers in a flexible flying-lead configuration. These microfabricated, uncooled sensors with volumes below 1 cm 3 demonstrate sensitivities around 100 fT/Hz 1/2 and bandwidths of several hundred hertz. Performance limits are discussed, as the design is easily scalable to different sensor sizes and large arrays. Initial measur...

CMR Protocol CMR studies were performed using a 1.5 T (Siemens Avanto) clinical CMR scanner. After a full functional assessment using steady state free precession (SSFP) cine imaging, three short axis images together with the three long axis (2-, 3and 4chamber) images were selected and these were then acquired at each dose increment during a standard dobutamine-atropine protocol. Dobutamine was...

In maximum-likelihood based speech recognition systems, it is important to accurately estimate the joint distribution of feature vectors given a particular acoustic model. In this work, we propose that by modeling the joint distribution of time-localized feature vectors and statistics relating those time-localized feature vectors to the relevant acoustic context, we can estimate information con...

Introduction: Ketamine used for patients in the intensive care unit provides a combination of sedation and analgesia as well beneficial effect on hemodynamics. This study aims to describe use continuous intravenous ketamine postoperative laparotomy pain management septic shock.
 Case presentation: A man, 55 years old, came emergency room with complaints abdominal accompanied by bloating, n...

Background: Apium graveolens has been used in Unani system of medicine as anti inflammatory, uricosuric, diuretic, carminative, antidyslipidemic, abdominal discomfort etc.The aim of the present study was to determine the antispasmodic activity of A. graveolens in Guinea Pigs against histamine induced contractions. Materials and Methods: Antispasmodic activity of PEESAG at the doses of 100, 200,...

The pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide (PACAP) and brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) neurons have recently been established as markers of the ventromedial hypothalamic nucleus (VMH). However, their neural projections from the VMH remained unknown. We examined whether PACAP and BDNF neurons in the VMH connected to the mesencephalic central gray (MCG), using the combination...

This article reviews major problems and difficulties faced by the authors along more than twenty years of clinical application of magnetocardiography (MCG) as a tool to improve the diagnosis of arrhythmogenic mechanism(s), non-invasively. It is also emphasized that an exhaustive understanding of individual electrophysiology is mandatory before any intervention, which can modify the substrate an...

In patients treated with FLAGYL, using a dosage regimen of 15 mg/kg loading dose followed 6 hours later by 7.5 mg/kg every 6 hours, the average peak steady-state plasma concentrations (Cmax) of metronidazole was 25 mcg/mL with trough (minimum) concentrations averaging 18 mcg/mL, respectively. Plasma concentrations of metronidazole are proportional to the administered dose. An eight-hour intrave...

After IRB approval, we retrospectively reviewed the regional anesthesia database of one staff anesthesiologist (ERM) from a university hospital outpatient surgery center collected over one year as part of an ongoing quality assurance (QA) project. Data from patients who received perivascular AXB or coracoid ICB were included. Nerve blocks were performed preoperatively using sterile technique in...

Acute lung injury or acute respiratory distress syndrome. Cardiac dysfunction, as defined by echocardiography. Septic shock : Septic shock exists if there is severe sepsis plus one or both of the following Systemic mean blood pressure is <60 mmHg (or <80 mmHg if the patient has baseline hypertension for at least 1 h despite adequate fluid resuscitation. (adequate fluid resuscitation is defined ...