... responsibility for staff training by conducting disaster and disaster-related courses and training The involvement of the same people in both planning for emergencies and disasters, training the staff for ... recorded in a registry and may easily be analyzed Materials and methods Alert was defined as a warning signal and threat, which might result in a) an incident defined as a single distinct event ... Lebanon, in the wake of the Israeli attack in 2006, was the most time-consuming mission This conflict resulted in continuous running of PKMC's command and control centre (24 h/day) during 21 days, involving...
... continued to be reported in the district including among vaccinated Recommend extending vaccinated age group to 1215 y in acute emergencies Epidemic was not halted until August when a vaccination ... poor efficacy of vaccine in February campaign These alone could have allowed outbreak to continue, but including a wider age range for vaccination may have been useful in containing the outbreak ... population, taking into account the year in which routine measles vaccination was introduced into the country, when supplementary vaccination activities occurred, and the likely vaccination history...
... an increase in integrin avidity through integrin clustering (Johnston and Butcher, 2002) Chemokine-induced activation of chemokine receptors triggers intracellular signalling pathways, resulting ... class I chain-related molecules A and B) and ULBP (UL16-binding proteins) in humans and Rae1 proteins, the minor histocompatibility protein H60, and the murine UL-16-binding protein-like transcript ... and Butcher, 2002) Chemokines can induce rapid clustering of integrins, thus leading to strengthened adhesion to immobilized integrin ligands The binding of β2-integrin, αLβ2 (or leukocytefunction...
... Barash PG: Management of in- flight medical emergencies Anesthesiology 2008, 108:749-755 Wagner JL, Ruskin KJ: Pulse oximetry: basic principles and applications in aerospace medicine Aviat Space Environ ... Vol 13 No Ruskin aerospace medical researchers, and the traveling public Sand and colleagues’ study should serve as a template for future research in this important area Competing interests The ... competing interests References Sand M, Bechara FG, Sand D, Mann B: Surgical and medical emergencies on board European aircraft: a retrospective study of 10189 cases Crit Care 2009, 13:R3 Ruskin...
... pollution incidents in recent years in China, including the high profile Songhua River toxic chemical spill in November 2005, and drinking water source pollution by algae in the Tai Lake, Wuxi in May ... the Rhine catchment area The convention has the following goals: • Promoting sustainable development of the Rhine ecosystem, by a) maintaining and improving the Rhine water quality by avoiding, ... leading role in accident investigation, often making findings publicly available Lessons learnt are shared through industry associations or through the release of legally binding notices to industry...
... from placing themselves in dangerous situations (Krulfeld) • Build research into a program from the beginning and build on knowledge gained from research in previous emergencies when designing programs ... neutrality, independence, informed consent, and the targeting of aid, because of a concern that aid was sustaining or legitimizing armed factions The JPO was instituted after the April 1996 looting of ... thought of as either invasive or passive (merely gathering information), social science research may be more invasive than researchers think, especially in emergency settings Institutional review...
... from placing themselves in dangerous situations (Krulfeld) • Build research into a program from the beginning and build on knowledge gained from research in previous emergencies when designing programs ... neutrality, independence, informed consent, and the targeting of aid, because of a concern that aid was sustaining or legitimizing armed factions The JPO was instituted after the April 1996 looting of ... thought of as either invasive or passive (merely gathering information), social science research may be more invasive than researchers think, especially in emergency settings Institutional review...
... cytokines, antigen formulation, frequencies and dose in human subjects are needed We have found that evaluating the immune responses in the vaccinedraining node can be helpful in increasing the ... performed In the present study, we describe the character, magnitude and time-course of the inflammatory infiltrate at the vaccination site in patients receiving a multipeptide vaccine in an incomplete ... nanoparticulate antigen systems in humans offer an interesting alternative to intramuscular, dermal and subcutaneous vaccination [47] Using this approach, immunogenicity could be induced using only one fifth...
... lysine residues for alanine in the HPV-16 L1 capsid protein resulted in reduced cell binding and infectivity of HPV-16 PsV [12] The authors suggested that these lysine residues cooperate in a ... as the pI of the protein The theoretical charge of a sequence at any given pH was determined by the frequency of a few amino acids Lysine, arginine, histidine and the N-terminal residue contributed ... where infection in C33A cells was clearly dependent on heparan sulfate, while pre-treatment with heparin only had a small inhibitory effect of infection in HaCaT cells [21] In a study comparing...
... metastases in patients with cutaneous melanoma showing intense immunostaining (brown spots) D) Lymph node, E) subcutaneous and F) visceral mestastases in patients with cutaneous melanoma showing weak ... bcl-2 and deaths according to the three types of metastasis are shown in table Figure shows the different degrees of immunostaining observed in metastasis specimens, including intense (A-C), weak ... after serial rinsing with tap water, 2% ammonia solution, ethanol and xylol The slides were evaluated by two independent pathologists and classified according to staining intensity (% stained cells),...
... agents are presented in Table The leading cause of drug discontinuation for infliximab was infusion reactions (7.4% of patients receiving infliximab, ~30% of all infliximab discontinuations for AEs) ... for overall discontinuation, for discontinuation due to inefficacy and for discontinuation due to adverse events The following covariates were examined in the models: baseline demographic variables ... etanercept (licensed in 2002) was administered as a subcutaneous injection of 25 mg twice weekly or 50 mg once weekly; adalimumab (licensed in 2005) was administered as a subcutaneous injection of 40...
... mechanical, including photocopying, recording, microcopying, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher or, in the case of photocopying, direct ... (affecting the feasibility of sucking of the vessel into the Dig Dis 2003;21:6–15 cylinder), and the capability to obtain a good view in the distal esophagus during active bleeding, etc In patients ... patients are jeopardized by rebleeding This occurs in 30–40% within a 3-day interval and in 60% within week The mortality within weeks from the onset of bleeding is described as high as 30–50%...
... trial comparing wireless capsule endoscopy with push enteroscopy in chronic gastrointestinal bleeding Endoscopy 2002;34:685–689 15 Laine L: Acute and chronic gastrointestinal bleeding; in Feldman ... Gastroenterology Bleeding Registry: Preliminary findings Am J Gastroenterol 1997;92:924–928 Zuckerman GR, Prakash C: Acute lower intestinal bleeding I Clinical presentation and diagnosis Gastrointest Endosc ... experience influence the postpolypectomy hemorrhage risk Although the use of NSAID did increase the incidence of minor self-limited bleeding, an increase in the rate of major bleeding was not...
... new promising candidate probably effective in experimentally induced pancreatitis in rats, as well as in an initial pilot study in humans showing reduced pancreatic and extrapancreatic inflammation ... or transdermal acting opioids are recommended [24–32] The application of indomethacin in a double-blind randomized trial could show a significant effect of indomethacin on pain, but even patients ... hydrochloride is ineffective in pain treatment: the first one was able to show that procaine is less effective compared to buprenorphine [28] Our own data prove that procaine hydrochloride is ineffective...
... be largely tailor-made for individual cases Acute intestinal failure occurs in Crohn’s disease in a variety of clinical settings, but the most challenging problem in the acute phase is the management ... serological testing Initial Assessment Patients with fever, tachycardia, abdominal pain and profuse diarrhoea usually require inpatient management, at least in the initial stages A plain abdominal radiograph ... outline In some clinical states, particularly in pregnancy where X-rays are undesirable or in fulminant disease, ultrasound may contribute useful information Bowel wall oedema results in thickening...
... a reduction in effluent can be achieved by either improving intestinal absorption or by inhibiting intestinal secretion Synthetic opioid drugs such as loperamide or the opiate, codeine phosphate, ... of the gastrointestinal tract There is often a stenosis distal to the inflamed segment increasing the intraluminal pressure in the transmurally inflamed bowel wall, predisposing to fistula formation ... 31:8–15 Farthing 26 Ballinger AB, Azooz O, El-Haj T, Poole S, Farthing MJG: Growth failure occurs through a decrease in insulin-like growth factor-1 which is independent of undernutrition in a rat...
... carcinomatosis Extraintestinal tumor Hernias Internal (paraduodenal, diaphragmatic, etc.) External (inguinal, umbilical, etc.) Intra-abdominal abscess Intestinal wall, intrinsic lesions Neoplasms ... enteroscopy in small intestine disorders is only suitable in cases where air must be aspirated from the region of the stomach and mainly small intestine as it happens, for example, in acute intestinal ... and timing of the intervention performance from the viewpoint of the patient’s survival is explicitly the principal and life-saving concern In acute intestinal obstructions developing in patients...