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This study investigates the associations between local anesthesia practice and perioperative complication, length of stay, and hospital cost for palatoplasty in the United States.

Patients undergoing cleft palate repair between 2004 and 2015 were abstracted from the Pediatric Health Information System database. Perioperative complication,…[Read more]

List order made a significant difference, with efficiency improving over the list and over the day for separate am and pm lists. When a patient was not on time to theatre, efficiency in both set up and finishing up metrics was significantly worse.

A large proportion of theatre time was being spent on non-operative tasks, making staff…[Read more]

To estimate the level of interobserver agreement in the calculation of placenta accreta index (PAI) as well as to evaluate the accuracy of PAI in prediction of morbidly adherent placenta.

This was a prospective study where 45 pregnant women (from 28 to 37 weeks of gestational age) with at least one previous Caesarean section and u…[Read more]

The decrease of the mechanical properties with waste glass content was less evident for the finer glassy powders, yet the value of about 4-5 MPa indicates their potential use as non-structural materials. The consolidated final materials were tested for their effects on the microbial growth of Escherichia coli and Enterococcus faecalis after 24 and…[Read more]

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Findings demonstrate a need for efforts to reduce e-cigarette use to focus on the co-use of alcohol, co-occurring mental health disorders, and the social and enjoyment motivations for use.

Participants (N = 3398) stated that the most common motivator for using e-cigarettes was to decrease stress, fol…[Read more]

Neurally mediated syncope (NMS) is the most common type of syncope, and head up tilt test (HUTT) is, so far, the most appropriate tool to identify NMS. In this work, an effort to predict the NMS before performing the HUTT is attempted. selleck kinase inhibitor To achieve this, the heart rate variability (HRV) at rest and during the first minutes…[Read more]

As environmental temperatures continue to rise, heat stress (HS) is having a negative effect on the livestock industry. In order to solve this problem, many studies have been conducted to reduce HS. Among them, early heat exposure has been suggested as a method for reducing HS in poultry. In this study, we analyzed proteomics and tried to identify…[Read more]

Radiation-induced fibrosis (RIF) is a serious complication that occurs after irradiation and which is caused by the deposition of extracellular matrix (ECM) proteins such as collagen. However, the underlying mechanisms, including the expression of the cytokines, that promote the RIF process, are not yet fully understood. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) have…[Read more]

Intensive physical exercise that competitive sports athletes participate in can negatively affect their pro-oxidative-antioxidant balance. Compounds with high antioxidant potential, such as those present in chokeberry (Aronia melanocarpa), can prevent these adverse changes. We here investigated the effect of antioxidant supplementation on…[Read more]