Primary Bacteremia and Needleless Safety Devices

Mycoplasma penetrans bacteremia and primary antiphospholipid syndrome.

Mycoplasma penetrans, a rare bacterium so far only found in HIV-infected persons, was isolated in the blood and throat of a non-HIV-infected patient with primary antiphospholipid syndrome (whose etiology and pathogenesis are unknown).

Safety Verification of Real Time Systems Serving Periodic Devices

In real-time systems response to a request from a controlled object must be correct and timely. Any late response to a request from such a device might lead to a catastrophy. The possibility of a task overrun, i.e., missing the deadline for completing a requested task, must be checked and removed during the design of such systems. Safe design of real-time systems running periodic tasks under th...

Needleless Electrospinning: Developments and Performances

Patients' safety and haemodialysis devices.

Chronic and acute extracorporeal detoxification treatments, such as haemodialysis, haemofiltration, haemodiafiltration or haemoperfusion, clearly have become parts of the standard armamentarium of modern medicine. The necessary technical equipment has been transformed in the course of the last decades from prototype-like monsters (which nobody dared to touch without thorough education) to handy...

Needleless Injection System

Even though oral route is the most preferred one, certain conditions necessitate the use of parenteral dosage form. But this route being invasive, is considered as non-patient compliant. Thus, there came a need for a more patient compliant system which led to the development of needleless injection technology. This review intends to throw light on the basic mechanisms by which this technology w...