An Unorthodox CPAP Usage Pattern

Lingua machinae - an unorthodox proposal

Voice User Interfaces (VUI) are slowly emerging into today’s IT applications. A decade ago, members of the speech science community (as well as market analysts) predicted a much faster growth of commercial VUI usage and are now wondering why the acceptance was so moderate during the last five years. One reasons for this is certainly the difficult economic situation since the crash of the new te...

The Relationship between CPAP Usage and Corneal Thickness

The purpose of this study was to determine whether there is a correlation between CPAP usage and corneal thickness in patients with sleep disordered breathing. Full-night polysomnography (PSG) recordings were collected. Ten patients had undergone PSG recordings with continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP), and seven patients had undergone PSG recordings without CPAP. We measured corneal thic...

Psychosis in parkinsonism: an unorthodox approach

Psychosis in Parkinson's disease (PD) is currently considered as the occurrence of hallucinations and delusions. The historical meaning of the term psychosis was, however, broader, encompassing a disorganization of both consciousness and personality, including behavior abnormalities, such as impulsive overactivity and catatonia, in complete definitions by the International Classification of Dis...

Unorthodox allergy procedures.

Unorthodox Methods in Scaphoid Fractures

Two Types of Fracture There' are roughly two main types of fracture of the waist of the carpal scaphoid. In type I there is a crack in the bone with negligible or no displacement, whilst in type II fractures there is an appreciable gap and some degree of displacement. The prognosis is best in type I and frequently the cartilage over the fracture line is intact. McLaughlin (1954) decided to trea...