Since the advent of catheter-based coronary intervention three decades ago, steady technological progress has led to the development and refinement of intracoronary devices [1]. Despite technological advances, the fundamental workflow of coronary procedures remains unchanged. Interventionalists still wear heavy protective lead aprons, stand at the bedside for long hours and manually manipulate ...

The potentially life-threatening effects of total body ionizing radiation exposure have been known for more than a century. Despite considerable advances in our understanding of the effects of radiation over the past six decades, efforts to identify effective radiation countermeasures for use in case of a radiological/nuclear emergency have been largely unsuccessful. Vitamin E is known to have ...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to prospectively assess the sensitivity and efficacy of clinical examination for screening of cervical spine (c-spine) injury in awake and alert blunt trauma patients with concomitant "distracting injuries." METHODS During the 24-month period from December 2009 to December 2011, all blunt trauma patients older than 13 years were prospectively evaluated ...

A burn injury is one of the most severe forms of trauma that can be sustained (National Burn Care Review Committee Report [NBCR], 2001). Burns and scalds can have a wide variety of causes such as thermal, mechanical, chemical, electrical or radiation, but all will involve coagulative destruction of the skin (Rawlins, 2011). About 250,000 people sustain burn injuries in the UK every year; 175,00...

The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) 1 was severely damaged from the chain reaction of the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami on 11 March 2011, and the consequent meltdown and hydrogen gas explosions. This resulted in the worst nuclear accident since the Chernobyl accident of 1986. Just as in the case of Chernobyl, emergency workers were recruited to conduct a wide range of task...

The present retrospective study was designed to analyze factors with prognostic values a) within, and b) significantly associated with, short-term (12months or less) and long-term (more than 24 months) survival times, i n 72 consecutive patients treated for malignant gliomas. Among 41 (57%) short-term surviving patients, the absence of both aphasia and motor deficit (as initial presenting ...

A stand-alone ultrasound shear wave imaging technology has been developed to quantify and visualize Young's modulus distribution by remotely applying ultrasound radiation force and tracking the resulting microvibrations in soft tissues with ultrafast ultrasound imaging. We report the first preliminary data that detected the distribution of local muscle stiffness within and between resting and c...

The principal reason of gingival inflammation is bacterial plaque, along with other predisposing factors. These predisposing factors are calculus, malocclusion, faulty restorations, complications associated with orthodontic therapy, self- inflicted injuries, use of tobacco & radiation therapy. The contributing factors to gingival inflammation & periodontal destruction are deficient dental resto...

THE use of radiation in diagnosing and treating patients has significantly advanced the field of medicine and saved or extended countless lives. We continue to find new, more sophisticated applications and refine and improve standard treatments to the benefit of patients. The use of radiation, however, is not without risk. As interventional radiologists who use this technology in our daily prac...

BACKGROUND Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) offers great benefit that could improve a patient's quality of life. However, numerous case reports of patient radiation injury resulting from PCI are being published, these reports likely represent a small fraction of the actual cases. PURPOSE To demonstrate the appropriate duration of patient follow-up after PCI to identify radiation effec...