Kathleen Epping is a nurse practitioner on the cardiothoracic surgery service at Zablocki VA Medical Center, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Beth Hammer is the program manager for nursing excellence at Zablocki VA Medical Center. She is also a nurse practitioner on the cardiology/electrophysiology service. and defibrillation leads are typically implanted transvenously, using the subclavian or cephalic ve...

STATEMENT OF PROBLEM The use of metal clasps on anterior teeth may cause esthetic problems. Recently, acetal resins have been used as an alternative tooth-colored denture clasp material to improve esthetics. However, there are few studies to support acetal resin use. PURPOSE The purpose of this in vitro study was to compare the retentive force and deformation of acetal resin and cobalt-chromi...

In response to the call for this special issue, we draw upon Erin Manning’s (2013, 2016) theorizing of technique and technicity reconsider schooling inquiry practices through chair. The chair is often taken granted narrowly conceived lens neurotypicality. By beginning with technicity, work foregrounds affect, relation process, rather than object, form method, so as dislodge from sedimented inqu...

Mussel growers in Prince Edward Island (PEI), Canada, currently use high-pressure water spraying (~700 psi) to mortally injure or dislodge invasive tunicates from mussel product and gear. An added benefit of this process may be the stimulation of byssal thread production, leading to improved mussel attachment. This study measured byssal thread abundance and thickness in cultured blue mussel Myt...

A Coloured woman was admitted to hospital with a 3-day history of acute right upper abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting. Acute cholecystitis was confirmed by biliary imaging using technetium-99m. An acutely inflamed gallbladder and two pigment stones in the common bile duct were removed. There were numerous retained gallstones in biliary radicles of the right hepatic duct; attempts to dislodge ...

A tool was developed to aid in ruminal insertion of abomasal infusion lines into dairy cows. The tool consisted of 2 pieces cut from polyvinyl chloride pipe. The first piece of pipe, the insertion tool, contained a groove that held the flexible plastic flange that is on the end of the infusion line. The insertion tool containing the flange was inserted into the ruminal cannula, through the sulc...

Cholesterol emboli syndrome is a disorder in which multiple cholesterol crystals dislodge from atherosclerotic plaques, either spontaneously or after vascular interventions, treatment with anticoagulation, or thrombolytic treatment. The syndrome typically presents with painful ischaemic skin lesions, livedo reticularis, and acute renal failure. Treatments such as aspirin, statins, discontinuati...