Strategies to innovate emergency care of status epilepticus by Jaideep Kapur

“…In contrast, overall, 25 ​% of patients in established SE were intubated, and this was in response to respiratory compromise in many patients. …”
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Kaposi´s sarcoma, epidemic type. Case presentation by Gilberto Serrano Ocaña, Juan Carlos Ortiz Sablon, Ilen Ochoa Tamayo

“…It is more common in homosexual’s patients, but may appear in any HIV positive individual, in Africa where heterosexual HIV transmission route is the most important can also be found in children and women. …”
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Percutaneous Dissolution of Gallstones using Methyl Tert-Butyl Ether by Johnson L Thistle, Bert T Petersen, Claire E Bender, Andrew J Leroy, Timothy M Ridgway

“…Percutaneous transhepatic catheter placement is a well established interventional radiology procedure and is the preferred route for MTBE administration. A small number of patients have been treated using nasobiliary placement of a gallbladder catheter. …”
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Clinical profile of dengue encephalopathy: A series of twelve cases and a profile of other complications by Biswajit Bhuyan, Bandita Panda, Rabinarayan Rout, Lalatendu Mohanty, Bangam Rajendra Prasad Rao

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Cognitive Impairment in Opium Use Disorder by Hossein Sanjari Moghaddam, Behrang Shadloo, Helen Shahkhah, Abbas Tafakhori, Maryam Haghshomar, Shakila Meshkat, Vajiheh Aghamollaii

“…The most affected cognitive functions in patients with OUD were detected by DBT and DSST. However, we found no significant difference between patients according to the route of administration. …”
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Sonographic Wrist Measurements and Detection of Anatomical Features in Carpal Tunnel Syndrome by Esther Vögelin, Thomas Mészàros, Franziska Schöni, Mihai A. Constantinescu

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A Review of Amoebic Liver Abscess for Clinicians in a Nonendemic Setting by Terry Wuerz, Jennifer B Kane, Andrea K Boggild, Sigmund Krajden, Jay S Keystone, Milan Fuksa, Kevin C Kain, Ralph Warren, John Kempston, Joe Anderson

“…The authors provide a topical review of ALA and summarize clinical data from a series of 29 patients with ALA presenting to seven hospitals in Toronto, Ontario, a nonendemic setting, over 30 years.…”
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Somatostatin Analogs in the Medical Management of Occult Bleeding of the Lower Digestive Tract by Julie Martin-Grace, Gianluca Tamagno

“…Despite the lack of double-blinded randomized placebo-control trials and despite the limitations of the available evidence in the literature, including small sample size, variable dosing, and administration routes, there is a consistent agreement in the literature that somatostatin analogs are a safe, well-tolerated, and effective therapeutic option for managing refractory or occult bleeding from the lower digestive tract, with particular reference to patients with angiodysplasia, where endoscopic or surgical management is either not feasible or unsuccessful and other pharmacological options are not preferred.…”
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Immunological Perspective: Helicobacter pylori Infection and Gastritis by Hang Yang, Bing Hu

“…Its infection is mainly transmitted via oral-oral and fecal-oral routes usually during early childhood. It can achieve persistent colonization by manipulating the host immune responses, which also causes mucosal damage and inflammation. …”
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Initial Experience Using the Radiofrequency Needle Visualization on the Electroanatomical Mapping System for Transseptal Puncture by Silvia Guarguagli, Ilaria Cazzoli, Aleksander Kempny, Michael A. Gatzoulis, Sabine Ernst

“…Transseptal puncture (TSP) is a routine access route in patients with left-sided ablation substrates and is performed safely on fluoroscopy (+/− echocardiographic guidance). …”
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Nurses’ Knowledge of Palliative Care in the Pneumological Hospital by Inarvis Medina González, Elicerio Jorge Chacón Reyes, Odalys Tomaida Hernández Quintero

“…It included 33 nurses who provide care to hospitalized patients. The variables analyzed were years of experience, educational level, knowledge of defining aspects of palliative care, pain management, intervention for control of dyspnea, criteria for drug administration and choice of route of administration as well as nurses’ perception of their knowledge of palliative care. …”
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Folded and Unfolded Conformations of Proteins Involved in Pancreatic Cancer: a Layman's Guide by Jerónimo Bravo, José L. Neira

“…Pancreatic cancer (PC) is one of the most difficult illnesses to treat, since the 5-year survival rate is lower than 5% in patients and no substantial advances in its treatment have been achieved in the last 20 years. …”
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The Physiology, Pharmacology and Therapeutic Manipulation of the Internal Anal Sphincter by Oliver M Jones, Alison F Brading, Neil J McC Mortensen

“…However, clinical trials have yet to establish the optimum doses, dose intervals and routes of administration for many of these therapies. …”
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IMPACT OF COVID-19 PANDEMIC ON THE SURGICAL TREATMENT OF GASTRIC CANCER: A 3-YEAR ANALYSIS by Amanda Juliani ARNEIRO, Marina Alessandra PEREIRA, André Roncon DIAS, Ulysses RIBEIRO JUNIOR, Marcus Fernando Kodama Pertille RAMOS

“…We observed an increase in diagnostic surgeries (p=0.026), with an increase in the minimally invasive route (p<0.001). In patients undergoing curative surgery, there was a greater indication for postoperative ICU (p=0.022) and neoadjuvant chemotherapy (p<0.001). …”
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A Randomized Trial Comparing Short versus Prolonged Hemostasis with Rescue Recanalization by Ipsilateral Ulnar Artery Compression: Impact on Radial Artery Occlusion—The RESCUE-RAO... by Dmitrii V. Ognerubov, Alexander Sedaghat, Sergey I. Provatorov, Andrey S. Tereshchenko, Olivier F. Bertrand, Ivo Bernat, Goar K. Arutyunyan, Olga A. Pogorelova, Maria I. Tripoten, Tatyana V Balakhonova., Anatoliy N. Samko, Evgeny V. Merkulov

“…Despite the enormous benefits of radial access, this route is associated with a risk of radial artery occlusion (RAO). …”
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Comparison of analgesic efficacy of diclofenac suppository with intramuscular diclofenac sodium in post-operative pain relief after cesarean delivery in the first 24 hours by Sidra Khan, Noreen Majeed, Ruqya, Mehreen Mehdi, Faiza Safdar, Saana Bibj

“… Background About 80% of the patients experience enough post-operative pain to require analgesia. …”
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An Overview of Spinal Injuries due to Dive or Fall into Shallow Water: Our Long-Term, Double-Center Experience from the Aegean Coast by Murat Yılmaz, Ersin Ikizoglu, Mert Arslan, Erkin Ozgiray, Kadri Emre Calıskan, Resat Serhat Erbayraktar

“…The levels of cervical injury were C5 (n = 16, 41%), C6 (n = 11, 28.2%), C7 (n = 6, 15.4%), C1 (n = 5, 12.8%), and C4 (n = 1, 2.6%). A total of 22 patients had neurological deficits at admission. Surgery was performed using anterior (n = 21, 72.4%), posterior (n = 7, 24.1%), and combined anterior and posterior (n = 1, 3.4%) routes. …”
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Nonhematopoietic Variants of Erythropoietin in Ischemic Stroke: Need for Step-Wise Proof-of-Concept Studies by Dirk M. Hermann

“…Only with such information should decisions be made whether intranasal Neuro-EPO may be evaluated in human patients.…”
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Evaluation of 902 Total Abdominal Hysterectomies Performed for Benign Reasons by Fazilet Kübra Boynukalın, Ömer Tolga Güler, Mehmet Coşkun, Özgür Özyüncü, Nasuh Utku Doğan

“…While abdominal hysterectomy alone was performed in only 87 patients (9.6%), bilateral salphingo-oophorectomy was added in 746 patients (82.7%) and unilateral salphingo-oophorectomy was performed in 69 patients (7.7%) together with hysterectomy. …”
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A scoping review on bio-aerosols in healthcare and the dental environment. by Charifa Zemouri, Hans de Soet, Wim Crielaard, Alexa Laheij

“…<h4>Background</h4>Bio-aerosols originate from different sources and their potentially pathogenic nature may form a hazard to healthcare workers and patients. So far no extensive review on existing evidence regarding bio-aerosols is available.…”
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