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Association between clusters of diseases and polypharmacy in hospitalized elderly patients: results from the REPOSI study.
2011
BACKGROUND: Although the association between multimorbidity and polypharmacy has been clearly documented, no study has analyzed whether or not specific combinations of diseases influence the prescription of polypharmacy in older persons. We assessed which clusters of diseases are associated with polypharmacy in acute-care elderly in-patients. METHODS: This cross-sectional study was held in 38 Italian internal medicine and geriatric wards participating in the Registro Politerapie SIMI (REPOSI) study during 2008. The study sample included 1155 in-patients aged 65 years or older. Clusters of diseases, defined as two or more co-occurring specific chronic diseases, were identified using the odds…
Blood flow in the internal jugular veins during the spaceflight - Is it actually bidirectional?
2020
Recently intriguing results of the research performed on astronauts of the International Space Station have been published. Unexpectedly, in some crew members a stagnant and bidirectional flow in the internal jugular vein was found, and in one of the astronauts this vein seemed to be totally thrombosed. If it actually were the case that in the settings of weightlessness there is a substantial risk of jugular vein thrombosis, any long-term human space missions would be extremely dangerous. Yet, we interpret these findings differently. In our opinion, what has been explained as bidirectional flow, actually represented the flow separation, and what has been described as occluded vein was rathe…
Element variations in rhyolitic magma resulting from gas transport
2013
Tuffisite veins are glass-filled fractures formed when magma fragments during degassing within the conduit. These veins form transient channels through which exsolved gases can escape from magma. The purpose of this study is to determine the extent to which chemical heterogeneity within the melt results from gas transport, and assess how this can be used to study magma degassing. Two tuffisite veins from contrasting rhyolitic eruptions at Torfajökull (Iceland) and Chaitén (Chile) were studied in detail. The tuffisite vein from Torfajökull is from a shallow dissected conduit (~70. ka) that fed a degassed lava flow, while the sample from Chaitén was a bomb ejected during the waning phases of …
Historical ethnopharmacology of the herbalists from Krummhübel in the Sudety Mountains (seventeenth to nineteenth century), Silesia
2018
Background Krummhübel (after 1945, Karpacz) in the Sudety Mountains (now SW Poland) was called “the village of pharmacists”. At the end of the seventeenth century, there were 57 households, of which about 40 were inhabited by herbalists. Krummhübel herbalists were the first in the Sudety region who applied medicinal mixtures for the treatment of various diseases (using, among others, plants, oils, minerals and even viper venom) in contrast to previous herbalists who only indicated the use of individual plant species for specific diseases. Riesengebirge (in Polish Karkonosze) potions were sold in Austria, the Czech Republic, Poland and Russia, and some of them could even be purchased in Scan…
From Norway Spruce Bark to Carbon Foams : Characterization, and Applications
2020
Fresh bark from spruce Picea abies was milled and extracted with hot water. The extracts were purified in a number of steps in order to get tannin-extracts pure enough to prepare tannin-based carbon foams. The chemical composition of the extracts were analyzed. The foams were maturated and thermally treated to obtain desired properties, such as specific surface area, porosity, and compressive strength. It was possible to produce carbon foams even if they contained carbohydrate impurities. Differences in the properties of the carbon foams such as compressive strength, specific surface areas, and pore size distributions might be related to the compositions of the extracts. The foams were fina…
Calling behaviour of female Periplaneta americana: Behavioural analysis and identification of the pheromone source
1993
Abstract The site for the production of Periplanone B, one of the components of the female sex pheromone of Periplaneta americana , was localized in glands situated in the genital atrium, and we have called these structures atrial glands. While emitting the sex pheromone, females adopt a characteristic calling posture during which time the atrial glands are exposed. Behavioural assays of males utilizing pentane extracts of various female body parts revealed that atrial gland extracts are highly attractive, and induced more wing-raising behaviour, than any other female body part. GC-MS analyses support these results by revealing that Periplanone B is only present in the atrial glands. We est…
Drenaggio toracico in Pronto Soccorso
2021
Riassunto Il drenaggio toracico e una procedura comune in medicina d’urgenza, indicata per gli pneumotoraci spontanei (primari o secondari) o traumatici e i versamenti pleurici liquidi: emotorace, pleurite purulenta o versamento parapneumonico complicato. Il drenaggio toracico si inserisce in una gestione multidisciplinare che coinvolge urgentisti, pneumologi, chirurghi toracici e rianimatori. La tecnica utilizzata deve essere nota ai medici che prendono in carico questi pazienti. Possono essere utilizzati diversi tipi di drenaggio e le loro indicazioni differiscono a seconda della natura del versamento. Il classico drenaggio con trocar resta, attualmente, indicato in caso di versamento liq…
Detección sistemática del cáncer colorrectal
2019
El cancer colorrectal, uno de los principales problemas de salud publica, cumple con las condiciones para la deteccion en la poblacion general. Los resultados disponibles muestran que una prueba de sangre oculta en heces puede reducir la mortalidad por cancer colorrectal. Por eso, la Comision Europea recomienda la realizacion de esta deteccion en las poblaciones de riesgo. En la actualidad, nuevas pruebas, las pruebas inmunologicas que permiten una lectura automatizada y cuantitativa, han sustituido a las pruebas de primera generacion, las pruebas del guayacol. Representan un gran avance: duplican la tasa de deteccion de canceres y multiplican por 3-4 la de los adenomas con alto riesgo de t…
Rezept für Bewegung in der Nephrologie
2018
ZusammenfassungDie Behandlung der chronischen Niereninsuffizienz (chronic kidney disease, CKD) in Klinik und Praxis, auch unter der Dialysetherapie, beinhaltet stets eine umfangreiche medikamentöse Gabe und eine regelmäßige Überwachung. Die Niereninsuffizienz als chronische Erkrankung gehört zu der Gruppe von Krankheiten, die auch von einer nicht medikamentösen Therapie profitiert – nämlich von einer regelmäßigen körperlichen Aktivität. Trotz zahlreicher Publikationen zu diesem Thema werden Bewegung und körperliche Aktivität noch zu wenig bei Patienten mit CKD eingesetzt. Mit den Ergebnissen des Trainings während der Dialyse und dem Rezept für Bewegung gibt es effektive Ansätze, die Faktore…
Notfallmanagement bei venösen Thromboembolien
2014
Bei Verdacht auf Vorliegen einer HIT II ist vor Durchfuhrung von weiteren diagnostischen oder therapeutischen Masnahmen die Festlegung der klinischen Wahrscheinlichkeit anhand des 4T-Scores wichtig.