To determine the onset and recovery times and haemodynamic effects of intubating doses of atracurium (0.4 mg.kg-1), d-tubocurarine (0.8 mg.kg-1), pancuronium (0.12 mg.kg-1), and vecuronium (0.07 mg.kg-1), sixty-seven children aged one to eight years were studied under halothane and nitrous oxide anaesthesia. The time to maximum twitch depression and the time to recovery to T1/Tc 25 per cent wer...

Objective: This study was done to compare and select the suitable anesthetic agent with smooth rapid induction, smooth rapid recovery, early readiness for discharge and with few intraoperative and emergence complications in pediatric outpatients. Material & methods: We studied 60 children undergoing bone marrow or C.S.F. aspiration for the diagnosis or follow up of leukemia or Hodgkin’s disease...

Brain T1 mapping has important clinical applications in detecting brain disorders. Conventional T1 mapping techniques are usually based on inversion recovery spin echo (IRSE) imaging or its more time-efficient counterpart inversion recovery fast spin echo (IRFSE) imaging because they can deliver good image quality. Multiple inversion times are required to accurately estimate T1 over a wide rang...

BACKGROUND Neonates and infants often require extended periods of mechanical ventilation facilitated by sedation and neuromuscular blockade. METHODS Twenty-three patients aged younger than 2 yr were randomly assigned to receive either cisatracurium or vecuronium infusions postoperatively in a double-blinded fashion after undergoing congenital heart surgery. The infusion was titrated to mainta...

INTRODUCTION Various types of sedation can be used for the reduction of a dislocated total hip arthroplasty. Traditionally, an opiate/benzodiazepine combination has been employed. The use of other pharmacologic agents, such as etomidate and propofol, have more recently gained popularity. Currently no studies directly comparing these sedation agents have been carried out. The purpose of this stu...

A critical component of disaster recovery planning is testing, which involves verification of the effectiveness of the DR solutions. Currently, there are several limitations that plagues disaster testing efforts such as the inability to create realistic disaster scenarios and test them in a production environment. Cyber Range Concept of Operations (CONOPS) presents an opportunity for overcoming...

Membrane bound protein diffusion viewed by fluorescence recovery after bleaching experiments : models analysis. Abstract Diffusion processes in biological membranes are of interest to understand the macromolecular organisation and function of several molecules. Fluorescence Recovery After Photobleaching (FRAP) has been widely used as a method to analyse this processes using classical Brownian d...

The anesthetic effects of clove-oil-derived eugenol were studied in the zebrafish, Danio rerio (Hamilton). Acute lethality and the effects of exposures to various dosages of eugenol were measured. The estimated 96-h LC50 for eugenol was 21 ppm. Times to induction and recovery from anesthesia were measured and compared with MS-222 under similar conditions. Eugenol induced anesthesia faster and a...

(2014) " Resource recovery from hazardous waste – the case of MSW incineration fly ashes " In: Proceedings " 4th International Conference Industrial and Hazardous Waste Management", 2.-5. SUMMARY: In the European Union almost 78 million tons of waste are annually combusted in Waste-to-Energy plants. Solid residues generated thereby contain altogether about 72,000 t/a of Zn, of which more than 5...