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BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE As part of the recruitment efforts for the National Institutes of Health Tissue Plasminogen Activator Pilot Study, public education and awareness campaigns were conducted to encourage early hospital arrival. We evaluated the change in arrival times during the course of the study for all stroke patients, including those who were not entered into study. METHODS Data were ...

Some strains of West Nile virus (WNV) are neuroinvasive and may induce fatal encephalitis/meningitis in a variety of animal species including humans. Whether, however, there is a strain-specific signature in the brain is as yet unknown. Here we investigated the neuropathogenesis induced by two phylogenetically distant WNV strains of lineage 1, WNV(IS98) and WNV(KUN35 911). While four-week old C...

OBJECTIVE Nerve growth factor (NGF) has a pivotal role in peripheral hyperalgesia and inflammation; anti-NGF antibodies attenuate pain responses in inflammatory pain models, and in people with osteoarthritis (OA) or low back pain. The aim of this study was to characterise the peripheral mechanisms contributing to the analgesic effects of anti-NGF antibody treatment in an established model of jo...

Productivity models are important decision support tools for harvesting operations. They should be derived with the least possible effort but with the highest possible precision. Models based on production monitoring or time studies are time consuming in their derivation. No models are available for new machine developments although it is particularly important to estimate productivity under gi...

INTRODUCTION Loading of thiamine prior to glucose administration during hypoglycemia to prevent Wernicke's encephalopathy is routine in the prehospital setting. To date no study has looked at the validity of this therapy. METHODS We evaluated a retrospective cohort of 242 patients who received intravenous glucose for hypoglycemia comparing those who received thiamine supplementation versus th...

abstract we report a 71 year-old patient with intertrochanteric fracture who had been managed with dhs and her healed fracture complicated by a subcapital femoral neck fracture. a subcapital femoral neck fracture complicating a healed intertrochanteric fracture is rare but catastrophic event. such cases are managed in a hetereogenous manner, i.e. there exists a mixture of cases treated by eithe...

Patient Population The program serves people who frequently call 911 in situations not considered to be an emergency, patients who call 911 with low-acuity medical complaints, patients at risk for potentially preventable admissions or readmissions, and patients at risk for hospice status revocation (updated January 2013).Vulnerable Populations > Medically uninsured; Insurance Status > Uninsured...