Post thoracotomy chronic pain is a severe problem that affects the majority of patients and decreases the quality of life. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the long-term effects of thoracal epidural levobupivacaine and intravenous dexketoprofen analgesia formed pre-emptively on the wound site pain after major thoracotomy operations. This randomised, prospective and double-blind study wa...

In this paper, we revisit global as well as local schedulability analysis of synchronization protocols based on the stack resource protocol (SRP) and overrun without payback for hierarchical scheduling frameworks based on fixed-priority pre-emptive scheduling (FPPS). We show that both the existing global and local schedulability analysis are pessimistic, present improved analysis, and illustrat...

plus ribavirin is established standard treatment of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection. Antiviral therapy including IFN-a, however, is associated with significant psychiatric side-effects such as depressive symptoms, fatigue and insomnia. The reported prevalence of INF-associated major depressive episodes is 20–40%, and up to 70% of patients may develop mild to moderate depressive episodes with ...

BACKGROUND To investigate the impact of initial antifungal therapeutic strategies on the prognosis of invasive Candida infections (ICIs) in intensive care units (ICUs) in China. METHODS A total of 306 patients with proven ICIs in the China-SCAN study were analyzed retrospectively. Empiric, pre-emptive, and targeted therapy were adopted based on starting criteria including clinical, microbiolo...

Analgesic agents were administered perioperatively to an eight-year-old Springer Spaniel undergoing amputation of its right thoracic limb. The amputation was carried out due to a painful, infiltrative and poorly differentiated sarcoma involving the nerves of the brachial plexus. A combination of pre-emptive and multimodal perioperative analgesic strategies was used; including intravenous (IV) i...

background: previous literatures have shown a transient ischemic attack  (tia) mimic rate  of 9-31%. we aimed  to ascertain the proportion of stroke mimics amongst suspected tia patients. methods: a prospective observational study was performed in   ghaem   hospital,   mashhad,   iran   during   2012-2013. consecutive tia patients  were identified in a stroke center. the  initial diagnosis  of ...

Previous studies have suggested that ketamine, an N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antagonist, provides a pre-emptive analgesic effect and pre-emptive analgesia improves postoperative pain management. The aim of this study was to determine the effict of pre-incisional vs. post-incisional intravenous low dose of racemic ketamine in postoperative pain in children undergoing inguinal hernia re...

Abstract Propofol, an intravenous anesthetic, has been shown to offer superior analgesic effect clinically. Whether propofol has preventive analgesic property remains unexplored. The present study investigated the antinociceptive effect of propofol and underlying molecular and cellular mechanisms via pre-emptive administration in a formalin-induced inflammatory pain model in rats. Male adult Sp...

Although, on average, only 2.1% of airline flights are cancelled each year, some of these cancellations occur in batches due to events that impact network operations such as snow storms, equipment outages, and labor issues. Batch cancellations impact a large number of passengers at the same time in the same location and have a negative effect on airline revenue (due to refund obligations), corp...