Building on Deci and Ryan's Self-Determination Theory and Meijman and Mulder's Effort-Recovery Model, the present study examined the nature, antecedents, and consequences of working hard (i.e., workaholism and work engagement) in a Dutch convenience sample of 1,246 employees. A confirmatory factor analysis showed that workaholism and work engagement were two largely independent concepts. Crossi...

In the ‘‘Drug Delivery and Imaging of C-sweating’’ section of the Materials and Methods the drug concentrations are listed incorrectly. The correct concentrations should be described as follows: ‘‘The same site was then re-injected within 2 min with a cocktail of 280 uM atropine, 160 uM isoproterenol and 20 mM aminophylline dissolved in lactated Ringers to make a final injection volume of 0.1 m...

The early use of fresh frozen plasma as a resuscitative agent after hemorrhagic shock has been associated with improved survival, but the mechanism of protection is unknown. Hemorrhagic shock causes endothelial cell dysfunction and we hypothesized that fresh frozen plasma would restore endothelial integrity and reduce syndecan-1 shedding after hemorrhagic shock. A prospective, observational stu...

Since the 1960s simple inexpensive cold lactated Ringers with additives has been used for short-term cold preservation of kidneys from living donors. We performed 266 living donor kidney transplantations from January 22, 2003 to October 30, 2006. Donor allografts were recovered laparoscopically and flushed with cold heparin, lactated Ringer's and procaine (HeLP) solution. Warm and cold ischemic...

Background: Spinal anesthesia is popular, simple and well accepted reliable technique for below umbilicus surgery. It frequently used lower segment section because of its rapid onset, a dense neural block, avoidance risk airway, little local anesthetic toxicity minimal transfer drug to the fetus, as failure block. Objectives this study was compare incidence severity hypotension, dose requiremen...

BACKGROUND Even though crystalloids are the first choice for fluid resuscitation in hemodynamically unstable patients, their potency as plasma volume expanders in hypovolemia of different etiologies is largely unknown. The objective of the study was to investigate dose-response curves of a crystalloid in hypovolemia induced by either sepsis or hemorrhagic shock. RESULTS Rats were randomized t...

AIM To outline the physiochemical properties and specific clinical uses of Plasma-Lyte 148 as choice of solution for fluid intervention in critical illness, surgery and perioperative medicine. METHODS We performed an electronic literature search from Medline and PubMed (via Ovid), anesthesia and pharmacology textbooks, and online sources including studies that compared Plasma-Lyte 148 to othe...