BACKGROUND Implementation of electrolyte repletion protocols to facilitate and ensure the safety of electrolyte control is common practice in intensive care units (ICUs). However, few protocols have been evaluated and validated. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effectiveness and safety of an electrolyte repletion protocol in a large, homogeneous group of postoperative patients. METHODS A retrospec...

Fibrinogen is a critical protein for clot formation, providingamatrix and mesh network essential for clot strength. Maintaining fibrinogen levels is an important therapeutic target in bleeding patients, particularly in perioperative settings. Early studies demonstrated that fibrinogen repletion corrected clot strength, based on viscoelastic blood testing using thromboelastography/thromboelastom...

Thirty-two beef heifers were used to examine the effect of dietary copper depletion and repletion on neutrophil and lymphocyte functions. Heifers allotted to the control group (C+; n = 8) were fed a basal roughage/concentrate diet with Cu-sulfate supplementation (Cu > or = 8 ppm). To induce a Cu deficiency (depletion phase d 0 to 60), treated (T; n = 24) heifers received a diet supplemented wit...

This study assessed the efficiency of a new in vitro tick feeding system for adult Rhipicephalus appendiculatus and compared impact different blood anticoagulating factors on their process. A total 10 feeders were each seeded with 30 or 60 R. adults. Bovine was added into unit changed every 12 h 4 to days during which attachment engorgement assessed. The observed after 80.0% (48/60), 75.8% (182...

This article reviews 6 selected cases of improvement/resolution of chronic back pain or failed back surgery after vitamin D repletion in a Canadian family practice setting. Pub Med was searched for articles on chronic back pain, failed back surgery, and vitamin D deficiency. Chronic low back pain and failed back surgery may improve with repletion of vitamin D from a state of deficiency/insuffic...

Testosterone deficiency (TD) afflicts approximately 30% of men ages 40-79 years, with an increase in prevalence strongly associated with aging and common medical conditions including obesity, diabetes, and hypertension. There appears to be a strong relationship between TD and metabolic syndrome, though the relationship is not certain to be causal. Several studies have suggested that repletion o...

BACKGROUND Iron deficiency is very common in patients admitted to hospital. Its management is changing with new insights into iron absorption and therapeutic options. AIMS The aims of this study were to develop guidelines for the correction of iron deficiency in patients admitted to hospital and to compare these with current practice. METHODS Based on current published evidence, guidelines ...

In this note we show that quotients of countably based spaces (qcb spaces) and topological predomains as introduced by M. Schröder and A. Simpson are not closed under sobrification. As a consequence replete topological predomains need not be sober, i.e. in general repletion is not given by sobrification. Our counterexample also shows that a certain tentative “equalizer construction” of repletio...