BACKGROUND In many health settings, administration of medicinal cannabis poses significant implementation barriers including drug storage and safety for administering staff and surrounding patients. Different modes of administration also provide different yet potentially significant issues. One route that has become of clinical interest owing to the rapid onset of action and patient control of ...

We discuss the vaporisation of four liquid ternary-alloy systems, namely, Cu-In-Sn, Ag-In-Sn, Al-Cu-Sn and Cu-Sb-Sn, on the basis of our previous Knudsen effusion mass spectrometric (KEMS) investigations of these systems. The thermodynamic activities and the thermodynamic functions (Gibbs energy, enthalpy, entropy) of mixing were determined using selected standard KEMS procedures (i.e., Simple ...

PURPOSE To investigate the effects of lenticule creation and subsequent corneal lenticule extraction on corneal deformation parameters during small incision lenticule extraction (SMILE) procedure. MATERIALS AND METHODS In this prospective study, 18 eyes of 10 patients (27.90 ± 7.11 years, -5.64 ± 2.45 diopters) scheduled for SMILE procedure were enrolled. Changes in the corneal deformation pa...

OBJECTIVES The objective of this review is to provide an evidence-based update on laser surgery for BPH with a focus on comparing Greenlight Photoselective Vaporisation of the Prostate (PVP) to Holmium Laser Enucleation of the Prostate (HoLEP). METHODS We reviewed all HoLEP and PVP papers identified by a Pubmed search using the keywords: laser, prostate, BPH, holmium, HoLE, PVP and greenlight...

Mass spectrometric studies of the vapours over solid lead oxide in a flow of gaseous arsenic and antimony trioxides were conducted. The following ions of the ternary oxides were detected: Pb3As2O6(+), Pb3AsO4(+), PbAs2O4(+), PbAsO2(+), PbSb2O4(+), and PbSbO2(+). The origin of these species produced by the ionisation and/or fragmentation of ternary gaseous oxides is discussed. The PbAs2O4 specie...