The preparation of the patient is a crucial time as it can contribute to the success of the bronchoscopic examination. First and foremost, preparation provides the patient with correct information regarding the procedure by which bronchoscopy is performed and informs him/her of sensations that may be felt. The anxiety and worry manifested by the majority of patients undergoing bronchoscopic exa...

Although studies suggest that fasting does not prevent the risk of “ab ingestis” respiratory disease, pre-operative oral maltodextrin seems to help reduce insulin resistance and improve post-operative outcomes in patients undergoing gastrointestinal surgery. In our large series of patients treated with a fast-track pathway, patients were permitted to eat solids until 8 hours before surgery and ...

We formulate quenched chiral perturbation theory for heavy-light mesons coupled to pions, and calculate the one-loop chiral logarithmic corrections to fB, fBs , BB and BBs . We also calculate these corrections for “partially quenched” theories. In both theories, the chiral logarithms diverge in the chiral limit, indicating that (partially) quenched theories should not be used to study this limi...

We determined whether persistent nausea and vomiting (N/V) symptoms following Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery is due to elevated systemic glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) and leptin in female non-diabetic subjects. Subjects with N/V post-Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) surgery had significantly elevated fasting GLP-1 levels compared to that with post-operative asymptomatic subjects and to morbi...

OBJECTIVE This study aims to investigate whether pre-operative Homeostasis Model Assessment Insulin Resistance (HOMA-IR) value is a predictor in non-diabetic coronary artery bypass grafting patients in combination with hemoglobin A1c, fasting blood glucose and insulin levels. METHODS Eighty one patients who were admitted to Cardiovascular Surgery Clinic at our hospital between August 2012 and...

BACKGROUND Implementation research is concerned with bridging the gap between evidence and practice through the study of methods to promote the uptake of research into routine practice. Good quality evidence has been summarised into guideline recommendations to show that peri-operative fasting times could be considerably shorter than patients currently experience. The objective of this trial wa...