In most circumstances, a nasal route for the delivery of pulmonary aerosol medications is rarely considered; however, in specific instances, this route may be quite useful. Consider, for example, the delivery of aerosol treatments during humidified high-flow nasal cannula use in pediatric critical care, or continuous aerosol delivery via cannula for medications with short durations of action. T...

STUDY OBJECTIVES Nasal continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) is standard therapy for obstructive sleep apnea syndrome. The effective nasal mask pressure may be adversely affected by factors that increase system resistance (eg, long tubing and/or water condensation) and by dynamic variables (breathing frequency [f] and tidal volume [VT]). The present study was conducted in order to assess t...

This chapter explores individual intercultural competence as an enacted capability developed through social interaction and experience with dominant local cultures and minority cultures. The authors employ a knowing-as-practice perspective, following Nicolini et al. (2003), and notions of tacit knowledge within particular domains (Sternberg et al., 1995), to suggest that the study of intercultu...

Modelling biopharmaceutical manufacture: Design and implementation of SimBiopharma Suzanne S. Farid a,∗, John Washbrook b, Nigel J. Titchener-Hooker a a The Advanced Centre for Biochemical Engineering, Department of Biochemical Engineering, University College London, Torrington Place, London WC1E 7JE, UK b Department of Computer Science, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK

We have observed an elevation of body temperature during surgical repair of pectus excavatum. To document this phenomenon and attempt to prevent it, we undertook a combination retrospective-prospective study. The retrospective arm included an analysis of the anesthetic records of patients undergoing repair of pectus excavatum during the past 5 years and included 22 boys and 3 girls. Body temper...