Evidence from neuroimaging and neuropsychology suggests that portions of the anterior temporal lobes (ATLs) play a critical role in proper name retrieval. We previously found that anodal transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) to the ATLs improved retrieval of proper names in young adults (Ross et al., 2010). Here we extend that finding to older adults who tend to experience greater prop...

U.S military medical personnel are currently trained to care for combat casualties using the principles taught in the Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) course. The appropriateness of many of the measures taught in ATLS for the combat setting is unproven. A 2-year study to review this issue has been sponsored by the United States Special Operations Command. This paper presents the results of t...

Substantial inflammatory disturbances following major trauma have been found throughout the posttraumatic course of polytraumatized patients, which was confirmed in experimental models of trauma and in vitro settings. As a consequence, the principle of damage control surgery (DCS) has developed over the last two decades and has been successfully introduced in the treatment of severely injured p...

We here present ATLS, a self scheduling scheme designed for execution of parallel loops in dynamic environments of non-dedicated networked computers. Since grid and volunteer systems based on desktop computers are proving themselves as real and powerful alternatives for parallel computing, new scheduling schemes, better suited for these environments, are required. Our proposal, by tracking seve...

Zusammenfassung Hintergrund Eine effektive Schockraumversorgung polytraumatisierter Patienten erfordert professionelle interdisziplinäre Teamarbeit. Simulationsgestützte Teamtrainings können es ermöglichen, die Grundprinzipien des Crisis Resource Management (CRM) auch in der Akut- und Notfallmedizin zu etablieren. Diese Arbeit präsentiert erfolgreiche Implementierung eines interdisziplinären, i...

Newborn rats are not capable of producing concentrated urine. With development of the concentrating system and a hypertonic medullary interstitium, intracellular osmolytes, such as sorbitol, accumulate in the renal medulla. Sorbitol is produced from glucose in a reaction catalyzed by aldose reductase (AR). The purpose of this study was to establish the time of expression and distribution of AR ...

Acute tumor lysis syndrome (ATLS) is a catastrophic complication that usually follows chemotherapy treatment of myelo-lymphoproliferative diseases. It results from massive tumor cell destruction that occurs secondary to chemotherapy and it manifests few hours to few days after initiation of treatment. It is characterized by hyperkalemia, hyperuricemia, hyperphosphatemia, hypocalcemia, lactic ac...