Contamination or transcutaneous absorption of organophosphates (OP) is rare and there exist only few reports of such manner of poisoning. We report four children from the same family in whom temporal proximity of the disease onset, a detailed interrogation of parents and exclusion of other clinical differentials, led to the diagnosis of transcutaneous intoxication with organophosphates (diazino...

s s variety of surgical approaches to the orbital floor nd infraorbital rim exist and can be conveniently ategorized as either transcutaneous or transconjuncival. These approaches are widely used for exposure, valuation, and treatment of orbital trauma, patholgy, and cosmesis. While we use both methods, we eel there are advantages of each depending on the urgical plan. For purposes of this arti...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the influence of the site of measurement of transcutaneous bilirubin (forehead or sternum) in reproducibility of results as compared to plasma bilirubin. METHODS A cohort study including 58 term newborns with no hemolytic disease. Transcutaneous measurements were performed on the forehead (halfway between the headline and the glabella, from the left toward the right s...

Previous studies have shown that external ultrasound with low frequencies and high intensities can enhance thrombolytic drug-induced clot dissolution during in vitro experiments. In this series of studies, we evaluated the efficacy of peripheral and coronary thrombolysis in vivo in animals by using noninvasive transcutaneous ultrasound combined with thrombolytic drugs (streptokinase and tPA) an...

A combined single electrochemical sensor designed to measure synchronously and transcutaneously oxygen partial pressure and carbon dioxide partial pressure (RADIOMETER prototype) was applied onto the scalp in 21 fetuses during labor. The values of tcPo2 respectively tcPco2 were compared with the values of fetal blood analysis (FBA) and blood from the umbilical artery (UA): Comparing the tcPco2 ...

BACKGROUND The present preliminary study describes concentration time courses of the NSAID carprofen in the plasma and synovial fluid in a microfrature sheep model after transcutaneous treatments with a novel application device (Vetdrop®). To treat circumscribed inflammatory processes a transcutaneous application device could potentially be beneficial. After transcutaneous application normally ...

[Purpose] Functional instability leads to a delay in the muscle reaction time and weakness of the peroneal muscles. The present study examined the effects of transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation during balance exercise on patients with functional instability of the ankles, including the ability to land after jumping at the center of foot pressure. [Subjects] The subjects were seven males...

Time-variant muscle responses under electrical stimulation (ES) are often problematic for all the applications of neuroprosthetic muscle control. This situation limits the range of ES usage in relevant areas, mainly due to muscle fatigue and also to changes in stimulation electrode contact conditions, especially in transcutaneous ES. Surface electrodes are still the most widely used in noninvas...

BACKGROUND Neonatal jaundice is the most frequently encountered diagnostic and therapeutic problem in the newborn. In the jaundiced infant, it is thought that the binding capacity of plasma albumin is exceeded, which allows free bilirubin to diffuse into and accumulate within extravascular tissues, such as the central nervous system. Affected newborns may develop kernicterus. The standard metho...