INTRODUCTION Bupivacaine is anesthetic often used in spinal anesthesia in the hyperbaric form (with factory-made incorporated 8.25% glucose), and in isobaric form without additives, (so-called "plain"). Baricity manipulation of local anesthetic is made for the better match of necessary and achieved level of sensor block. Too high block is unnecessary and can compromise the patient's hemodynamic...

In this article the behavior of tetrahydrofuran (THF) + 2-alkanol namely 2-propanol, 2-butanol, 2-pentanol, 2-hexanol and 2-heptanol binary mixtures through the density and viscosity measurements have been studied as a function of composition and within the temperature range of 293.15–313.15 K. The excess molar volume, isobaric thermal expansivity, partial molar volumes, and viscosity deviation...

We have investigated with extensive Monte Carlo simulations in the isothermal isobaric ensemble a system of N = 8192 elongated attractive–repulsive biaxial Gay–Berne (GB) particles. We have found a uniaxial and biaxial nematic and a biaxial orthogonal smectic phase in this thermotropic model system.

BACKGROUND Comparing the relative potency of new local anaesthetics such as levobupivacaine and ropivacaine with bupivacaine by the minimum local analgesic concentration model has not been described for neonatal spinal anaesthesia. This information is important to compare agents and to determine the most effective spinal dose. METHODS We performed a two-stage study to determine the ED50, the ...

In specially constructed thermal diffusion columns separations between the isotopic mixtures 1 2 C 1 8 0/ 1 2 C 1 6 0 and 1 4 C 1 6 0/ 1 2 C 1 6 0 were measured at average temperatures ranging from T = 260 ° K to T = 465 °K . At temperatures above 320 ° K 1 4C 1 60 concentrates more strongly in the cold region than 1 2 C , 8 0 . Below this temperature the opposite effect is taking place: the th...

We have investigated with extensive Monte Carlo simulations in the isothermal isobaric ensemble a system of N = 8192 elongated attractive–repulsive biaxial Gay–Berne (GB) particles. We have found a uniaxial and biaxial nematic and a biaxial orthogonal smectic phase in this thermotropic model system.

BACKGROUND Perception of, and adaptation of the rectum to, distension probably play an important role in the maintenance of continence, but perception studies in faecal incontinence provide controversial conclusions possibly related to methodological biases. In order to better understand perception disorders, the aim of this study was to analyse anorectal adaptation to rectal isobaric distensio...

A self-consistent particle-phonon coupling model is used to investigate the properties of the isobaric analog resonance in 208Bi. It is shown that quantitative agreement with experimental data for the energy and the width can be obtained if the effects of isospin-breaking nuclear forces are included, in addition to the Coulomb force effects. A connection between microscopic model predictions an...

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com Abbreviations: EOD: End Of Dive; OTF: On The Fly; GM: Gas Model; BM: Bubble Model; EOS: Equation-Of-State; OT: Oxygen Toxicity; DAN: Divers Alert Network; LANL: Los Alamos National Laboratory; PDE: Project Dive Exploration; DSL: Diving Safety Laboratory; CNS: Central Nervous System; WLM: WeibullLevenberg-Marquardt; NLLS: Non Linear Least Squares Dat...