A5035415966- Sepsis Diagnosis and Treatment
- Hemodynamic Monitoring and Therapy
- Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
- Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties
- Global Health Workforce Issues
- Family and Patient Care in Intensive Care Units
- Healthcare Policy and Management
- Peripheral Artery Disease Management
- Intensive Care Unit Cognitive Disorders
- Perovskite Materials and Applications
- Big Data and Business Intelligence
- Aortic aneurysm repair treatments
- Cytokine Signaling Pathways and Interactions
- Biotechnology and Related Fields
- Diagnosis and Treatment of Venous Diseases
- Diversity and Career in Medicine
- Respiratory Support and Mechanisms
- Carbon Nanotubes in Composites
- Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Studies
- Leech Biology and Applications
- Problem and Project Based Learning
- Adrenal Hormones and Disorders
- Nonlinear Optical Materials Studies
- Crystal Structures and Properties
- Cardiovascular Health and Disease Prevention
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
2023
University of Cambridge
2020
University of South Florida
2013-2018
Tampa General Hospital
2018
University of Alberta
2015
Florida College
2015
University of Rochester Medical Center
2006-2012
University of Rochester
1992-2006
Strong Memorial Hospital
2006
Resurrection Medical Center
2006
Full-body patient simulators have been used for a number of years to educate nurse anesthetists and anesthesiologists. These lifelike mannequins operate from sophisticated computerized system with the ability generate multiple physiologic events respond numerous pharmacologic stimuli. The authors recently integrated use simulator into curriculum their acute care practitioner students. learning process was divided three steps: presimulation experience, simulation postsimulation experience....
Objectives: Arginine deficiency may contribute to microvascular dysfunction, but previous studies suggest that arginine supplementation be harmful in sepsis. Systemic availability can estimated by measuring the ratio of its endogenous inhibitors, asymmetric and symmetric dimethylarginine. We hypothesized arginine-to-dimethylarginine is reduced patients with severe sepsis associated severity illness outcomes. Design: Case-control prospective cohort study. Setting: Medical surgical intensive...
This article describes critical care nurses' knowledge, attitudes, confidence, and experiences regarding advance directives end-of-life decision making.Intensive units (ICUs) are the site of much making. Decision making in ICU should be governed by patients' wishes, one way patients can make their decisions known. Advance defined as mechanisms which individuals known how they want medical treatment made when no longer for themselves. take form living wills, healthcare proxies,...
Abstract Monitoring genetic diversity in wild populations is a central goal of ecological and evolutionary genetics critical for conservation biology. However, studies nonmodel organisms generally lack access to species‐specific genotyping methods (e.g. array‐based genotyping) must instead use sequencing‐based approaches. Although costs are decreasing, high‐coverage whole‐genome sequencing (WGS), which produces the highest confidence genotypes, remains expensive. More economical reduced...
Envenomation by spiders or scorpions is a public health problem in many parts of the world and not isolated to tropics subtropics. Spiders can be unintentionally transported globally, keeping them as pets becoming more popular, so envenomation occur anywhere. Emergency nurses should prepared assess treat patients who present with bite sting. This article gives an overview signs, symptoms treatment species arachnids that are clinically significant humans.
Experimental studies demonstrate beneficial immunological and hemodynamic effects of estradiol in animal models sepsis. This raises the question whether contributes to sex differences incidence outcomes sepsis humans. Yet, total levels are elevated patients, particularly nonsurvivors. Bioavailable concentrations have not previously been reported septic patients. The bioavailable concentration accounts for aberrations carrier protein that could produce discrepancies between levels. We...
Abstract Bone metastasis is a common event and major cause of morbidity in cancer patients. The hematopoietic marrow the bones, rather than bone tissue per se, target organ metastasis. In marrow, IL‐1 induces release growth factors that may affect tumor‐cell growth. We treated groups mice with rhulL‐1α to examine its role establishment experimental bone/bone‐marrow found injection 2 μg 24 hr prior to, simultaneously or after 10 4 B16 melanoma cells into left cardiac ventricle resulted 2‐fold...
Abstract Introduction Ultrasound measurements of brachial artery reactivity in response to stagnant ischemia provide estimates microvascular function and conduit endothelial function. We hypothesized that would independently predict severe sepsis mortality. Methods This was a combined case-control prospective cohort study. measured 95 patients admitted the medical surgical intensive care units an academic center 52 control subjects without acute illness. Measurements were compared versus...
Objective: Nitric oxide deficiency may contribute to microvascular dysfunction in sepsis. Current physiologic paradigms contend that nitrite and/or S-nitrosohemoglobin mediate intravascular delivery of nitric oxide. These metabolites are purportedly consumed during hemoglobin deoxygenation, producing and coupling with metabolic demand. Systemic consumption can be assessed by comparing their concentrations arterial vs. venous blood. We hypothesized differences diminished sepsis associated...
Epigenetics is the study of alterations in function genes that do not involve changes DNA sequence. Within critical care literature, it a relatively new and exciting avenue research describing pathology, clinical course, developing targeted therapies to improve outcomes. In this paper, we highlight current relative focused within major epigenetic mechanisms methylation, histone modification, microRNA regulation, composite scoring. emerging body quite clear novel future will require...
The direct growth of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) with a narrow distribution diameter or chirality remains elusive despite significant benefits in properties and applications. Nanoparticle catalysts are vital for SWCNT synthesis, but how to precisely manipulate their chemistry, size, concentration, deposition difficult, especially within continuous production process from the gas-phase. Here, we demonstrate preparation W6Co7 alloyed nanoparticle tunable stoichiometry using...
Abstract The full optical control of light using sustainable green technologies is one the incipient challenges Photonics community. There are, however, few materials able to provide a significant nonlinear refractive index change under small enough intensities (< 1 GW cm −2 ), and, more importantly, allowing external magnitude and sign their response. This manuscript demonstrates that Cs 2 SnI 6 lead‐free nanocrystals (NCs) present an extraordinary self‐defocusing response not yet...