Methods. We enrolled 19 ASA I–II patients undergoing hand or forearm surgery. The four nerves of the axillary plexus were identified with ultrasound guidance. Lidocaine 1.5% with epinephrine 1:200 000 was loaded into a syringe driver. A 22 G needle was inserted in the long axis to each nerve and injection commenced using the bolus function (600 ml h). The needle was repositioned until the nerve...

Injection drug users (IDUs) are vulnerable to serious health complications resulting from unsafe injection practices. We examined whether the use of a supervised safer injection facility (SIF) promoted change in injecting practices among a representative sample of 760 IDUs who use a SIF in Vancouver, Canada. Consistent SIF use was compared with inconsistent use on a number of self-reported chan...

Two-Way Fluid–Gas Exchange Syringe for Postvitrectomy Patients in Outpatient Setting Pars plana vitrectomy is a surgical procedure for the treatment of diseases such as rhegmatogenous retinal detachment, proliferative diabetic retinopathy, macular hole, and macular pucker (also called epiretinal membrane). In clinical medical practices, complications such as postvitrectomy vitreous hemorrhage, ...

There are currently no specific, published data quantifying the need for safe injection equipment or the amount of infectious sharps waste produced by testing and treatment programs for diseases such as HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis (TB), and malaria. With growing funding in these areas there is an increased need to ensure all programs are integrating safe injection approaches and equipment in order t...

Sodium dodecyl benzene sulfonate (SDBS), Polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP, MW 10 kDa), and NaCl were obtained from Sigma Aldrich. Microcalorimetry experiments were performed using a MicorCal ITC-VP at the University of Albany Proteomics Facility in Rensselaer, NY. SDBS was added to de-ionized distilled water, and placed into the injection syringe of the microcalorimeter, and added to the sample cell c...

The incidence and severity of injection-site lesions has decreased since the development of the Beef Quality Assurance program. The objective was to evaluate the route of administration and the pharmaceutical product on the impact on tenderness, collagen concentration, and lesion occurrence in muscles of chucks and rounds. A total of 144 yearling steers (initial BW = 383 +/- 29.4 kg) were selec...

PURPOSE This multicenter, randomized, crossover study compared preference, ease of use, acceptability, satisfaction, and safety of repeated subcutaneous (SC) self-administrations with prefilled pens and prefilled syringes delivering methotrexate (MTX), in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). PATIENTS AND METHODS The study (ClinicalTrials.gov number NCT01793259) enrolled 120 patients requi...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVE Prevalence of injection drug users (IDUs) is high in the northeastern region of India. This coupled with unsafe injecting practices as well as practice of tattooing in remote tribal areas call for baseline data on the prevalence of parentally transmitted viral diseases. In the present study we aimed to measure the risk behaviours and seroprevalence of hepatitis C virus (H...