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High frequency ventilation is a radical departure from conventional lung ventilation, with frequencies greater than 2 Hz, and volumes per breath much smaller than the anatomical deadspace. Its use has been shown to benefit premature infants and patients with severe respiratory distress, but a vital question concerns ventilator induced damage to the lung tissue, and a clear protocol for the most...

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aluminum phosphide poisoning (alpp) still has no efficient and approved antidote. supportive care and hemodynamic monitoring are the only choices of treatment. we proposed a new lavage formulation in addition to evaluation of its efficacy and defining the impact of clinical characteristics of patients on their prognosis. during eight months period of time, 120 patients were enrolled to the stud...

Health emphasises inequities in care across ethnic groups in the UK. This, coupled with the Royal College of Psychiatrists’ resolve to address concerns about institutionalised racism, promises a fundamental change in existing clinical practice. Practitioners are undecided about the best way to achieve such change. It is over a decade since socio-anthropological methods were recommended as one w...

Immigration remains a powerful and recurrent feature of American politics. Of the issues related to immigration, controversy over government policy for controlling illegal immigration occupies a central position in the debate. One increasingly important and prevalent type of control policy that has received little scholarly attention is worksite employment eligibility enforcement, otherwise kno...

Methods: Overall health status was measured by self-rated health (SRH), health related quality of life (SF-36) and psychological distress (Kessler-10). Age standardised means or prevalence and confidence intervals were computed and compared between surveys. The ratio of age standardised prevalence of very good/excellent SRH and high/very high K-10 scores to the respective total population score...

Background. Carbon dioxide inhalation is known to induce an emotion similar to spontaneous panic in Panic Disorder patients. The affective response to carbon dioxide in healthy subjects was not clearly characterized yet. Methodology/ Principal Findings. Sixty-four healthy subjects underwent a double inhalation of four mixtures containing respectively 0, 9, 17.5 and 35% CO2 in compressed air, fo...