INTRODUCTION Epinephrine is the treatment of choice for anaphylaxis. We surveyed emergency department (ED) healthcare providers regarding two methods of intramuscular (IM) epinephrine administration (autoinjector and manual injection) for the management of anaphylaxis and allergic reactions and identified provider perceptions and preferred method of medication delivery. METHODS This observati...

Neonatal mice (that is, pups younger than 6 d) must be exposed to CO2 for as long as 50 min to achieve euthanasia. Alternatively, other inhalant anesthetic agents have been used to euthanize laboratory rodent species. We investigated the efficacy of isoflurane at saturated vapor pressure to euthanize neonatal mice. Neonatal mice (n = 76; age, 1 or 2 d) were exposed to isoflurane in a sealed, qu...

OBJECTIVE To determine youth preferences for Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved and investigational human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) antibody collection and testing methods before and after subjects learned of test result response times; to determine how influential test result response times are on participants' preferences. DESIGN After health educators explained and demonstrated...

The development of State Administration Law is a prerequisite for constitutional in realising good governance. From the perspective national administration, administrative reform revision several legal policies related to structure, process, and management areas finance, supervision, staffing, accountability transparency, political decision-making processes their implementation. Political proce...

the aim of me present work was to investigate rhe potential utility of nanoparticles made of chitosan (cs) and also cs chemically modified with polyethylene glycol (cs-peg) as new vehicles for improving na^al vaccine delivery. for mis purpose, diphtheria toxoid (dt) was chosen as a model antigen. dt was entrapped within nanoparticles made of cs of different molecular weight, and also made of cs...