OBJECTIVE The goal was to determine whether young children and their parents prefer physicians wearing clear face shields or surgical masks. METHODS Eighty children (4-10 years of age) and their guardians were recruited from a pediatric emergency department. A survey and color photographs of the same male and female physicians wearing face shields and surgical masks were distributed. The pare...

Neve Gordon and Nicola Perugini might well add the laws of war as another instance Orwellian “doublethink” where concept human shields operates if it were GPS tracker directing you to a target. The prohibition is framed iron dome sheltering vulnerable actors from attacking armies, but this book compellingly demonstrates that shelter part arsenal modern lawfare. Is IHL worth saving.

We performed a retrospective study of pelvic radiographs of children between August 2003 and January 2004 to determine whether gonadal shields effectively protected the gonads during pelvic radiographs in pediatric patients. We considered 1,047 radiographs of 111 children under the age of 16 years who were examined by the orthopaedic department at the University Hospital of North Staffordshire....

Rabbit corneas were infected with a tobramycin-resistant (minimum inhibitory concentration, 31.25 micrograms/ml) strain of Pseudomonas aeruginosa 27853 (10(3) colony-forming units) and were treated 22 hours later with collagen corneal shields hydrated in either 25 mg/ml ciprofloxacin, 40 mg/ml norfloxacin, 40 mg/ml tobramycin, or deionized water. Shields were removed at 26 hours postinfection, ...

OBJECTIVES In this study, we evaluated the efficacy of using gonadal shielding in pediatric patients. PATIENTS AND METHODS Between October 2011 and February 2012, 1137 pelvic X-rays of 675 consecutive patients (323 boys, 352 girls; mean age 6.8 years; range 6 month to 17 years) in our hospital were evaluated in terms of gonadal shielding use by a team including an orthopedist, a gynecologist ...

exposure buildup factors have been calculated by monte carlo method for point isotropic gamma ray sources, penetrating a two-layer spherical shield of water surrounded by lead, and the effect of bremsstrahlung radiation on buildup factors has, in particular, been investigated, the results of which are in good agreement with previous works. the buildup factors were then calculated for various co...