BACKGROUND Renal dysfunction is an established predictor of all-cause mortality in intensive care units. This study analyzed the outcomes of coronary care unit (CCU) patients and evaluated several biomarkers of acute kidney injury (AKI), including neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin (NGAL), interleukin-18 (IL-18) and cystatin C (CysC) on the first day of CCU admission. METHODOLOGY/PRIN...

Abstract Background Malnutrition and dysphagia are highly prevalent in patients with oesophageal cancer. The International Dysphagia Diet Standardisation Initiative (IDDSI) is a global standard to describe oral intake for dysphagic individuals. Greater weight loss (WL) after oesophago-gastrectomy associated increased length of stay (LOS), rate post-operative complications worse five-year surviv...

This paper draws on the thought of historian science, Georges Canguilhem, to explore how practice making medical knowledge brings into question accepted understandings (ill)health and contagious disease. Drawing out lively materialities both humans viruses shape human experience viral infection, analysis focuses written oral histories UK’s Common Cold research Unit (CCU), associated scientific ...

BACKGROUND Women generally wait longer than men prior to seeking treatment for acute myocardial infarction (AMI). They are more likely to present with atypical symptoms, and are less likely to be admitted to coronary or intensive care units (CCU or ICU) compared to similarly-aged males. Women are more likely to die during hospital admission. Sex differences in the associations of delayed arriva...

BACKGROUND Carotid body tumours (CBTs) are very rare lesions which should be treated as soon as possible even when benign since small tumour size permits easier removal and lower incidence of perioperative complications and recurrence. Malignant forms are rare and they can be identified by lymph node invasion and metastases in distant locations. The need of reliable and effective diagnostic mod...

This paper described design and architecture of our own innovative work about the Mobility Management in Wireless Body Area Network for Patient Monitoring System. This system will have the capability to monitor physiological parameters from multiple patient bodies. The system uses the Licence free MICS band between the sensor nodes and a remote central control unit (CCU) that behaves as a base ...

We report 2 patients with cold urticaria with different response to treatment with omalizumab (Xolair(®)). Cold contact urticaria (CCU) is a common subtype of physical urticaria. It is characterized by the development of wheal and/or angioedema within minutes after cold contact. Clinical manifestation of CCU can range from mild, localized whealing to life-threatening anaphylactic shock reaction...

The numerical control of an experimental assembly cell with two robots--termed a cognitive control unit (CCU)--is able to simulate human information processing at a rule-based level of cognitive control. To enable the CCU to work on a large range of assembly tasks expected of a human operator, the cognitive architecture SOAR is used. The CCU can plan assembly processes autonomously and react to...