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Critical Care Transport: How Perilous the Trip.

Tags: *Critical Care, 2016, Bigham Michael T, Brilli Richard J, Critical Care, Critical Care Family Needs Inventory, Humans, Pediatric critical care medicine : a journal of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies

Nausea, Vomiting, and Weight Loss in a Young Adult Patient With a History of a Gunshot Wound.

Assessing victims of gunshot wounds with retained bullets/bullet fragments for lead toxicity is not always considered until the patient develops signs and symptoms of toxicity. We discuss the case of a 19-year-old young man who received a diagnosis…

Precordial Catch Syndrome in Elite Swimmers With Asthma.

Precordial catch syndrome is a benign cause of chest pain in children and adolescents that remains underrecognized. Because of distinctive symptoms, precordial catch syndrome is not necessarily a diagnosis of exclusion. However, a detailed history…

Characteristics of Academic Health Departments: Initial Findings From a Cross-Sectional Survey.

Academic Health Departments (AHDs) represent collaborative relationships between public health academia and practice. The purpose of this study was to gain a better understanding of AHD characteristics, to document the extent of collaboration between…

Tags: 2016, Academic Medical Centers – Evaluation, Academies and Institutes/*classification, Amos Kathleen, Barlow Patrick, Brownson Ross C, Community Health Services, Cross Sectional Studies, Cross-Sectional Studies, Erwin Paul Campbell, Human, Humans, Journal of public health management and practice : JPHMP, Keck C William, Public Health Administration, Questionnaires, Surveys and Questionnaires, United States, United States Public Health Service/*classification/trends

Computed Tomography Artifact Created by Air in the X-ray Tube Oil.

A subtle artifact of patchy hypodensities in computed tomography images of the head mimicked acute or subacute cerebral infarct. The cause of the artifact was air in the oil of the x-ray tube. The artifact manifested only when the acquisition…

Joint Hypermobility and Joint Range of Motion in Young Dancers.

BACKGROUND: Joint range of motion (ROM) refers to the extent of movement of the joint, recorded using standard goniometers. Joint hypermobility (JHM) is a condition in which most of the synovial joints move beyond the "normal" limits. Joint…

Elastography Assessment of Liver Fibrosis: Society of Radiologists in Ultrasound Consensus Conference Statement.

Sonoelastography of Breast Lymphoma.

Breast lymphomas only account for approximately 0.15% of malignant breast carcinomas. Half of these are primary lymphomas, and the other half are metastatic to the breast. Ultrasound elastography has been proven to aid in the diagnosis of breast…

Cardiac Output Monitoring Managing Intravenous Therapy (COMMIT) to Treat Emergency Department Patients with Sepsis.

OBJECTIVE: Fluid responsiveness is proposed as a physiology-based method to titrate fluid therapy based on preload dependence. The objectives of this study were to determine if a fluid responsiveness protocol would decrease progression of organ…

Coaching From the Sidelines: Examining the Impact of Teledebriefing in Simulation-Based Training.

INTRODUCTION: Although simulation facilities are available at most teaching institutions, the number of qualified instructors and/or content experts that facilitate postsimulation debriefing is inadequate at many institutions. There remains a paucity…

Tags: *Formative Feedback, *Simulation Training, *Telecommunications, 2016, Ahmed Rami A, Atkinson Steven Scott, Department of Emergency Medicine, Emergency Medical Technicians/*education, Gable Brad, Gardner Aimee K, Humans, Mentors, NEOMED College of Medicine, Simulation in healthcare : journal of the Society for Simulation in Healthcare, Yee Jennifer

Supervision Requirements: Criteria for the Nurse and Auxiliary Staff When Providing Patient Care Visits.

Physician or advanced care clinicians' (advanced practice nurses, physician assistants) orders are routinely carried out by nursing staff, with the goals of implementing treatment plans and improving patient outcomes. In the outpatient setting,…

Monitoring the synthesis of biomolecules using mass spectrometry.

The controlled and selective synthesis/clearance of biomolecules is critical for most cellular processes. In most high-throughput 'omics' studies, we measure the static quantities of only one class of biomolecules (e.g. DNA, mRNA, proteins or…

Tags: 2016, biosynthesis, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Deuterium Oxide/chemistry, deuterium water, flux analysis, Kasumov Takhar, Kinetics, Macromolecular Substances/*chemistry/*metabolism, Mass spectrometry, Mass Spectrometry/*methods, Metabolomics, Miyagi Masaru, NEOMED College of Pharmacy, Philosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences, proteomics

Obesity-related endometrial cancer: an update on survivorship approaches to reducing cardiovascular death.

As the rate of obesity increases worldwide, so will the number of women diagnosed with obesity-related malignancy. The strongest correlation between obesity and cancer is endometrial cancer (EC). Obesity is the most significant modifiable risk factor…

Thrombopoietic status of patients on haemodialysis.

Thrombocytopenia is a potential dialysis-related treatment complication. Developments in bio-compatible dialyser membranes have decreased the occurrence of thrombocytopenia. We investigated whether thrombopoiesis is impaired in haemodialysis patients…

Willingness and Ability of Older Adults in the Emergency Department to Provide Clinical Information Using a Tablet Computer.

OBJECTIVES: To estimate the proportion of older adults in the emergency department (ED) who are willing and able to use a tablet computer to answer questions. DESIGN: Prospective, ED-based cross-sectional study. SETTING: Two U.S. academic EDs.…

Tags: *aged, *Attitude to Computers, *Computers, *Data Collection, *Elderly, *emergency department, *Emergency Service, 2016, 80 and over, Academic Medical Centers, Academic Medical Centers – North Carolina, Aged, Brahmandam Sruti, Braz Valerie A, Computers, Confidence Intervals, Convenience Sample, Cross Sectional Studies, CROSS-sectional method, Cross-Sectional Studies, Descriptive Statistics, Emergency Care – In Old Age, Emergency Medical Services, Emergency Service, Female, Handheld, Holland Wesley C, Hospital, HOSPITAL emergency services, Human, Humans, Hunold Katherine M, Jones Christopher W, Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, LONGITUDINAL method, Male, Mangipudi Sowmya A, Mass Screening/*instrumentation, MEDICAL cooperation, Medlin Richard P, Multicenter Studies, New Jersey, North Carolina, OLD age, Patient Attitudes – Evaluation – In Old Age, PATIENTS' attitudes, Platts-Mills Timothy F, Portable – Utilization – In Old Age, PORTABLE computers, Prospective Studies, Research, SCALE analysis (Psychology), Scales, STATISTICAL sampling, Summated Rating Scaling, Surveys and Questionnaires, United States, User-Computer Interface

Flight feather attachment in rock pigeons (Columba livia): covert feathers and smooth muscle coordinate a morphing wing.

Mechanisms for passively coordinating forelimb movements and flight feather abduction and adduction have been described separately from both in vivo and ex vivo studies. Skeletal coordination has been identified as a way for birds to simplify the…

Humanism and other acts of faith.

Novel approaches to mitigating parathion toxicity: targeting cytochrome

Accidental or intentional exposures to parathion, an organophosphorus (OP) pesticide, can cause severe poisoning in humans. Parathion toxicity is dependent on its metabolism by the cytochrome P450 (CYP) system to paraoxon (diethyl

Wound Healing Society 2014 update on guidelines for arterial ulcers.

Tags: 2016, Arterial Occlusive Diseases – Complications, Dardik Alan, Department of Internal Medicine, Evidence-Based, Federman Daniel G, Hopf Harriet W, Humans, Hyperbaric Oxygenation, Kelly Mathew, Ladiiznski Barry, Laser-Doppler Flowmetry, Medical, Mostow Eliot N, Negative-Pressure Wound Therapy, NEOMED College of Medicine, Peripheral Arterial Disease/complications/diagnosis/*therapy, Professional Practice, Pulse Wave Analysis, Richmond Nicholas A, Shapshak Dag, Skin Ulcer/diagnosis/etiology/*therapy, Societies, Ueno Cristiane M, Ulcer – Diagnosis, Ulcer – Surgery, Ulcer – Therapy, Ultrasonic Therapy, Vascular Surgical Procedures, Wound Care – Equipment and Supplies, Wound Care – Methods, Wound Healing Society – Standards, Wound repair and regeneration : official publication of the Wound Healing Society [and] the European Tissue Repair Society

Hyperammonaemia-induced skeletal muscle mitochondrial dysfunction results in cataplerosis and oxidative stress.

KEY POINTS: Hyperammonaemia occurs in hepatic, cardiac and pulmonary diseases with increased muscle concentration of ammonia. We found that ammonia results in reduced skeletal muscle mitochondrial respiration, electron transport chain complex I…

Tags: *ammonia, *ATP, *cellular respiration, *cirrhosis, *Mitochondria, *Oxidative Stress, *portacaval anastamosis, *Reactive oxygen species, *skeletal muscle, 2016, Adenosine Triphosphate/metabolism, Aged, Allawy Allawy, Animals, Cell Line, Cell Respiration, Creatine Kinase/metabolism, Dasarathy Srinivasan, Davuluri Gangarao, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Female, Flask Chris A, Hoppel Charles, Humans, Hyperammonemia/*metabolism, Kasumov Takhar, Kumar Avinash, Liver Cirrhosis/metabolism, Male, Middle Aged, Mitochondria, Muscle, Muscle/*metabolism, Myosin Heavy Chains/metabolism, NAD/metabolism, NEOMED College of Pharmacy, Rats, Reactive Oxygen Species/metabolism, Rennison Julie H, Sandlers Yana, Singh Dharmvir, Skeletal/*metabolism, Sprague-Dawley, Thapaliya Samjhana, The Journal of physiology, Thiobarbituric Acid Reactive Substances/metabolism, Van Wagoner David R

Human Immunodeficiency Virus Diagnostic Testing: 30 Years of Evolution.

A concern during the early AIDS epidemic was the lack of a test to identify individuals who carried the virus. The first HIV antibody test, developed in 1985, was designed to screen blood products, not to diagnose AIDS. The first-generation assays…

Tags: 2016, Alexander Thomas S, Clinical and vaccine immunology : CVI, Diagnostic Tests, HIV Infections/*diagnosis, HIV/immunology/isolation & purification, Humans, Immunoassay/*methods/trends, Routine/*methods/trends

Ecotropic Murine Leukemia Virus Infection of Glial Progenitors Interferes with Oligodendrocyte Differentiation: Implications for Neurovirulence.

UNLABELLED: Certain murine leukemia viruses (MLVs) are capable of inducing fatal progressive spongiform motor neuron disease in mice that is largely mediated by viral Env glycoprotein expression within central nervous system (CNS) glia. While the…

Leptin augments recruitment of IRF-1 and CREB to thrombospondin-1 gene promoter in vascular smooth muscle cells in vitro.

We previously reported that high pathophysiological concentrations of leptin, the adipocyte-secreted peptide, upregulate the expression of a potent proatherogenic matricellular protein, thrombospondin-1 (TSP-1), in vascular smooth muscle cells.…

Tags: *cAMP response element-binding protein, *interferon regulatory factor-1, *leptin, *thrombospondin-1, *Transcription, *vascular smooth muscle cells, 2016, American journal of physiology. Cell physiology, Binding Sites/genetics, Cells, Chromatin Immunoprecipitation/methods, Cultured, Cyclic AMP Response Element-Binding Protein/*metabolism, Department of Integrative Medical Sciences, Ganguly Rituparna, Gene Expression Regulation/genetics, Genetic/genetics, Humans, Interferon Regulatory Factor-1/*metabolism, Leptin/*metabolism, Muscle, Mutagenesis, Myocytes, NEOMED College of Medicine, Promoter Regions, Raman Priya, Response Elements/genetics, Sahu Soumyadip, Site-Directed/methods, Smooth, Smooth Muscle/*metabolism, Thrombospondin 1/*genetics/*metabolism, Transcription, Transcriptional Activation/genetics, Transfection/methods, Up-Regulation/genetics, Vascular/*metabolism

Enhanced ethanol catabolism in orphan nuclear receptor SHP-null mice.

Deficiency of the orphan nuclear hormone receptor small heterodimer partner (SHP, NR0B2) protects mice from diet-induced hepatic steatosis, in part, via repression of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor (PPAR)-gamma2 (Pparg2) gene expression.…

Early upregulation of myocardial CXCR4 expression is critical for dimethyloxalylglycine-induced cardiac improvement in acute myocardial infarction.

The stromal cell-derived factor-1 (SDF-1):CXCR4 is important in myocardial repair. In this study we tested the hypothesis that early upregulation of cardiomyocyte CXCR4 (CM-CXCR4) at a time of high myocardial SDF-1 expression could be a strategy to…

Tags: 2016, alpha Subunit/metabolism, American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology, Amino Acids, Animal, Animals, Apoptosis/drug effects, Cardiotonic Agents/*pharmacology, Cell Hypoxia, Cell Line, Chilian William M, CXCR4/deficiency/genetics/*metabolism, Department of Integrative Medical Sciences, Dicarboxylic/*pharmacology, Disease Models, Dong Feng, Enzyme Inhibitors/pharmacology, Forudi Farhad, hypoxia, Hypoxia-Inducible Factor 1, Hypoxia-Inducible Factor-Proline Dioxygenases/antagonists & inhibitors/metabolism, Inbred C57BL, Kiedrowski Matthew, Knockout, Left/*drug effects, Mayorga Mari, Mice, myocardial infarction, Myocardial Infarction/*drug therapy/genetics/metabolism/pathology/physiopathology, Myocardium/*metabolism/pathology, NEOMED College of Medicine, Penn Marc S, Rats, Receptors, Recovery of Function, Shamhart Patricia, Signal Transduction/drug effects, stem cells, Stem Cells/drug effects/metabolism, Stroke Volume/drug effects, Time Factors, Up-Regulation, Ventricular Function, Weber Kristal

Central nervous system integration of sensorimotor signals in oral and pharyngeal structures: oropharyngeal kinematics response to recurrent laryngeal nerve lesion.

Safe, efficient liquid feeding in infant mammals requires the central coordination of oropharyngeal structures innervated by multiple cranial and spinal nerves. The importance of laryngeal sensation and central sensorimotor integration in this system…

L-type calcium channels refine the neural population code of sound level.

The coding of sound level by ensembles of neurons improves the accuracy with which listeners identify how loud a sound is. In the auditory system, the rate at which neurons fire in response to changes in sound level is shaped by local networks.…

Two distinct representations of social vocalizations in the basolateral amygdala.

Acoustic communication signals carry information related to the types of social interactions by means of their "acoustic context," the sequencing and temporal emission pattern of vocalizations. Here we describe responses to natural vocal sequences in…

Mechanical Ventilation Boot Camp: A Simulation-Based Pilot Study.

Objectives. Management of mechanically ventilated patients may pose a challenge to novice residents, many of which may not have received formal dedicated critical care instruction prior to starting their residency training. There is a paucity of data…

Tags: 2016, Ahmed Rami A, Critical care research and practice, Department of Internal Medicine, Dunn Diane, Fuenning Charles, George Richard, Gothard M David, Haines Nhi, Hejal Rana, NEOMED College of Medicine, Yee Jennifer

Splenorenal Manifestations of Bartonella henselae Infection in a Pediatric Patient.

Bartonella henselae is a bacterium which can cause a wide range of clinical manifestations, ranging from fever of unknown origin to a potentially fatal endocarditis. We report a case of Bartonella henselae infection in a pediatric-aged patient…

Tags: 2016, Case reports in radiology, Fulton Nicholas, Rising Taylor, Vasavada Pauravi

Role of Inflammation in Modulating Thrombotic-Fibrinolytic Balance in Venous Thrombosis.

Tags: *chemokines, *Editorials, *fibrinolytic therapy, *Inflammation, *T-lymphocytes, *Thrombosis, *venous thrombosis, 2016, Circulation research, Fibrinolytic Agents, Humans, Igwe Chinedu, Inflammation, Penn Marc S, Thrombolytic Therapy

The Capillary Index Score as a Marker of Viable Cerebral Tissue: Proof of Concept-The Capillary Index Score in the MR CLEAN (Multicenter Randomized Clinical Trial of Endovascular Treatment for Acute Ischemic Stroke in the Netherlands) Trial.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: The capillary index score (CIS) is based on the hypothesis that areas lacking capillary blush on pretreatment cerebral digital subtraction angiograms correspond to nonviable cerebral tissue. METHODS: Pretreatment digital…

Tags: *cerebral cortex, *infarction, *stroke, *tissue, 2016, Al-Ali Firas, Angiography, Bender Evin N, Berkhemer Olvert A, Brain, Brain Ischemia/*diagnostic imaging/therapy, Brain/*diagnostic imaging, Capillaries, Capillaries/*diagnostic imaging, Cerebral Ischemia, Cerebral Ischemia – Therapy, Checklists, Comparative Studies, Computed Tomography Angiography/*methods, Digital Subtraction – Methods, Digital Subtraction/*methods, Dillon William P, Dippel Diederik W J, Elias John J, Endovascular Procedures/methods, Evaluation Research, Human, Humans, Lingsma Hester F, Majoie Charles B L M, Multicenter Studies, RANDOMIZED controlled trials, Roos Yvo B W E M, Scales, stroke, Stroke – Therapy, Stroke/*diagnostic imaging/therapy, Treatment Outcome, Treatment Outcomes, Validation Studies, van der Lugt Aad, van Oostenbrugge Robert J, van Zwam Wim H, Yousman Wina P

AOT and Long-Term Use of Antipsychotics-3.

Tags: *Antipsychotic Agents, 2016, Antipsychotic Agents, Department of Psychiatry, Fuller Doris A, Humans, Munetz Mark R, NEOMED College of Medicine, Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.)

The Case of the Previously Shaky, Unimmunized, Itchy Infant With Rash and Pancytopenia.

Prolonged Clostridium difficile Infection May Be Associated With Vitamin D Deficiency.

BACKGROUND: Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) is one of the leading causes of hospital-acquired infections, creating a financial burden for the U.S. healthcare system. Reports suggest that vitamin D-deficient CDI patients incur higher…

Tags: *adult, *gastroenterology, *immunonutrition, *life cycle, *nutrition, *research and diseases, *sepsis, *vitamins, 2016, 80 and over, Aged, Clostridium Infections – Etiology, Clostridium Infections – Mortality, Clostridium Infections – Physiopathology, Clostridium Infections/*etiology/mortality/physiopathology, Department of Internal Medicine, Diarrhea – Microbiology, Diarrhea – Physiopathology, Diarrhea/microbiology/physiopathology, Female, Haller Nairmeen A, Humans, Iatrogenic Disease – Epidemiology, Iatrogenic Disease/epidemiology, JPEN. Journal of parenteral and enteral nutrition, Lee Rebecca, Length of Stay, Male, Middle Age, Middle Aged, NEOMED College of Medicine, Nutritional Status, Psychological Tests, Recurrence, Retrospective Design, Retrospective Studies, Sepsis – Epidemiology, Sepsis/epidemiology, Severity of Illness Index, Severity of Illness Indices, Vitamin D, Vitamin D – Blood, Vitamin D Deficiency – Blood, Vitamin D Deficiency – Complications, Vitamin D Deficiency/blood/*complications, Vitamin D/analogs & derivatives/blood, Watkins Richard R, Wong Ken Koon

Repackaging of Intravenous Fat Emulsions: A Clinical Conundrum.

To accommodate small fluid volumes, repackaging of intravenous fat emulsions (IVFEs) is frequently performed in institutions providing parenteral nutrition to neonates and smaller pediatric patients. However, some consider this an unsafe practice.…

A medieval physician: Amirdovlat Amasiatsi (1420-1495).

We aimed to acquaint the reader with a medieval physician, Amirdovlat Amasiatsi, who lived and practiced in the 15th century Anatolia. Amirdovlat wrote several books on medicine mainly focusing on phytotherapy and pharmacology using medicinal plants,…

Tags: 2016, Amirdovlat Amasiatsi, Anatolia, Armenian, Gurunluoglu Aslin, Gurunluoglu Raffi, Hakobyan Tatevik, Journal of medical biography, Mashtots Matenadaran, Medieval

A Pilot Curriculum to Integrate Standardized Patient Simulation into Clinical Pastoral Education.

INTRODUCTION: We describe a novel means of experiential learning for clinical pastoral care residents using standardized patient (SP) simulations. METHODS: A prospective cohort study involving 7 clinical pastoral care residents was performed. All…

Upper-Limb Recovery After Stroke: A Randomized Controlled Trial Comparing

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: This study compared the effect of cyclic neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES), electromyographically (EMG)-triggered NMES, and sensory stimulation on motor impairment and activity limitations in patients with upper-limb…

The therapeutic efficacy of intensive medical therapy in ameliorating high-density lipoprotein dysfunction in subjects with type two diabetes.

BACKGROUND: To determine whether 12 months of intensive medical therapy (IMT) improves HDL functionality parameters in subjects with type II diabetes (T2D). METHODS: Retrospective, randomized, and controlled 12-month IMT intervention trial that…

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