• Ask the patient to look down. • With one hand, take a new swab and moisten it in the solution. • With the thumb or a finger of the other hand, gently ease the upper eyelid up against the orbital rim (just below the eyebrow), taking care not to put any pressure on the eyeball. • With the swab, gently clean along the upper eyelid margin in one movement from inner to outer canthus (Figure 3). • ...

to amikacin, while 100% of isolates were sensitive to clarithromycin. Clinical resolution of infection may not occur despite appropriate antibiotic therapy. Intravitreal clarithromycin has been reported to be nontoxic to rabbit eyes up to a dose of 1.0 mg; to our knowledge, the use of intravitreal clarithromycin in humans has not been reported. In summary, M chelonae is an uncommon cause of end...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the use of ear endoscopy in the postoperative management of open mastoidectomy cavities, and to test whether ear endoscopy improves inspection and cleaning compared with ear microscopy. METHODS Prospective study. Thirty-two ears were divided into two groups: group 1, examination and cleaning of mastoid cavities under endoscopic visualization after microscopic standard ea...

In this work an enzymatic treatment is proposed as a preparative, cleaning protocol to remove cellulose films from resonators and sensors. Quartz crystal and surface plasmon gold sensors, coated with ultrathin films of cellulose are used in studies of molecular (for example, polymer and surfactant) adsorption. The sensors are usually recycled after removal of the film, with limited success, aft...

42-year-old woman experienced an acute asthma attack, seizures, and unconsciousness immediately after a carpet-cleaning and deodorizing job was conducted in her home. Exposure modeling estimates that she was exposed to approximately 3.4-17 mg/m(3) of sodium tripolyphosphate and more than 14 mg/m(3) volatile organic compounds immediately after the cleaning. I derived two separate exposure models...

We assessed how often bedside stethoscopes in our intensive care unit were cleaned and whether they became colonised with potentially pathogenic bacteria. On two separate days the 12 nurses attending the bedspaces were questioned about frequency of stethoscope cleaning on the unit and the bedside stethoscopes were swabbed before and after cleaning to identify colonising organisms. Twenty-two he...

After manual and machine cleaning of beef intestines, the structure of the intestinal layer was examined. Examination was performed using a histological technique and included 60 intestinal sets of fattened beef (Simmental breed), 10 months of age and with an average slaughter weight of 248.05 kg. Intestines are considered to be edible by-products and therefore are used as natural casings for h...