Sometimes a stick might just be a stick

Cocktail stick injuries--the dangers of half a stick.

Can status epilepticus sometimes just be a long seizure?

Commentary Status epilepticus (SE) is a grave, life-threatening neurological emergency requiring rapid administration of definitive therapy to avoid irreversible brain injury (1), but it seems paradoxical that many children who experience it do surprisingly well. For instance, children who experience SE are no more likely to go on to develop chronic epilepsy than those who experience an ordinar...

HIV from a needle stick?

Great question! It?s wise to be in the know about workplace health risks. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that approximately 385,000 sharps-related injuries (i.e., being stuck by a needle) occur in health care workers each year in the United States. But, fear not! There are things you can do to prevent a needlestick injury from happening (more on this later)! Gett...

A Virtual Head - Stick Rehabilitation Robot

For individuals with upper-extremity motor disabilities , the head-stick is a simple and intuitive means of performing manipulations because it provides direct proprioceptive information to the user. Through practice and use of inherent proprioceptive cues, users may become quite adept at using the head-stick for a number of diierent tasks. The traditional head-stick is limited, however, to the...

A System for Whole Stick Cane Harvesting:

Arguments are presented favouring the step-wise introduction of mechanisation into cane harvesting. The multi-pass "McConnel" system of whole stick harvesting offers such a phased introduction. Three machines are introduced in the following order as labour becomes scarcer a versatile loader, a reaping aid which leaves the cane in orderly swaths "inline", and a pickup cleaner-bundler which takes...