Parenteral fluid therapy is a basic component of the care of hospitalized infants and children. Clinicians who care for inpatients must be able to assess the need for parenteral fluid therapy and to specify the composition of fluid and rate of administration. Fluid and electrolyte problems can be challenging but generally can be "tamed" by an organized approach, application of a few principles ...

In this work we theoretically study the differential capacitance of an aqueous electrolyte in contact with a planar electrode, using classical Density Functional Theory, and show how measurable quantity can be used as probe to better understand structure composition electric double layer at play. Specifically, small trace amounts divalent ions influence greatly, also dominate its behaviour for ...

We report the room-temperature growth of vertically aligned ternary Bi2-xSbxTe₃ nanowires of diameter ~200 nm and length ~12 µm, within flexible track-etched nanoporous polycarbonate (PC) templates via a one-step electrodeposition process. Bi2-xSbxTe₃ nanowires with compositions spanning the entire range from pure Bi₂Te₃ (x = 0) to pure Sb₂Te₃ (x = 2) were systematically grown within the nanopo...

Pregnancy affects the physiology of the pregnant woman particularly the endocrine, cardiovascular and the renal systems. This work was therefore set to ascertain the state of electrolytes in pregnancy and how it affects blood pressure using multiparity as a factor. One hundred and twenty (120) women were used in this study. The non-pregnant groups were the nulliparous (control) and grand multip...

• Body fluid and electrolyte composition in congestive heart failure has been studied by the metabolic balance technique," by analysis of skeletal muscle and other tissues' ~ and by the administration of tracer substances," but not by whole body analysis. As part of another study evaluating the effects of digitalis-like compounds on myocardial composition, we thought it appropriate to analyze c...

We study the Soret effect of charged polystyrene particles as a function of temperature and electrolyte composition. As a main result we find that the Soret coefficient is determined by charge effects, and that non-ionic contributions are small. In view of the well-known electric-double layer interactions, our thermal field-flow fractionation data lead us to the conclusion that the Soret effect...

The signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) for silicon nanowire field-effect transistors operated in an electrolyte environment is an essential figure-of-merit to characterize and compare the detection limit of such devices when used in an exposed channel configuration as biochemical sensors. We employ low frequency noise measurements to determine the regime for optimal SNR. We find that SNR is not signif...

This project studied the electrochemical removal of the pesticide transformation product 2,6-dichlorobenzmide (BAM) in Danish drinking water produced from groundwater at two different anode materials. The influence of the electrolyte composition on the degradation kinetics and pathways of BAM was clarified. Although chloride is present in small concentrations in the groundwater, persistent chlo...