the blood cannot neutralize or buffer, reactions characterized by chill and prostration follow. The present paper reports a study of these two rival theories. Origin of the work : In order to render saline solutions used in cholera cases nonpyrogenic, Panja, Malik, Paul and Ghosh (1942) prepared hypertonic saline solutions in freshly prepared distilled water and observed that these did not prod...

OBJECTIVE To determine the utility of inhaled hypertonic saline solution to treat ambulatory infants with viral bronchiolitis. DESIGN Randomized, double-blind, controlled trial. Sixty-five ambulatory infants (mean +/- SD age, 12.5 +/- 6 months) with viral bronchiolitis received either of the following: inhalation of 0.5 mL (5 mg) terbutaline added to 2 mL of 0.9% saline solution as a wet nebu...

OBJECTIVE To compare the efficacy and safety of 5%, 3%, and 0.9% saline solution for treating acute bronchiolitis in the prehospital setting. STUDY DESIGN This was a double-blind trial including consecutive infants aged <18 months treated in an urban urgent care setting. A total of 165 patients were randomized to receive nebulized 5%, 3%, or 0.9% (normal) saline with epinephrine every 4 hours...

Minimally invasive liver resection (MILR) has evolved considerably in the past decade. Safe hepatic parenchymal transection, has been one of the technical hurdles that has become evident during the growth of MILR. Advances in technology have now made safe liver transection a reality allowing resections of greater magnitude. In this review, the precoagulation approach is described in both method...

The effects of ethanol, given either intragastrically or intravenously, on the sphincter of Oddi was evaluated by endoscopic manometry. In 12 subjects intragastric ethanol (150 ml of 32%) was given over 10 minutes. In five control subjects saline solution (150 ml of 0.9%) was given intragastrically instead of ethanol. In five other subjects ethanol was infused intravenously (6 ml/kg of 10%) for...

INTRODUCTION Reliable characterization of a hypertrophic scar (HTS) is integral to epidemiologic studies designed to identify clinical and genetic risk factors for HTS. The Vancouver Scar Scale (VSS) has been widely used for this purpose; however, no publication has defined what score on this scale corresponds to a clinical diagnosis of HTS. METHODS In a survey of 1000 burn care providers, we...

The objective of this work is identifying changes in the collagen bands in heated and rehydrated dentine. We use bovine dentine slices that were heated in oven between 100 and 300 degrees C. The sample hydration was conducted in sodium chloride solution at 0.9 wt.%; the spectra were acquired by a Fourier transform infrared spectrometer in the spectral range of 4000-400 cm-1. Our results show a ...