We investigated feasibility and safety of the RhinoChill (RC) transnasal cooling system initiated before achieving a protected airway during cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) in a prehospital setting.In out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA), transnasal evaporative cooling was initiated during CPR, before a protected airway was established and continued until either the patient was declared de...

INTRODUCTION Legionella pneumophila is one of the few bacteria that can be considered as a genuine environmental pathogen. Whilst most infections of hydric origins result from the faecal pollution of a stream or ground water, it is indeed not the case for Legionella pneumophila since this bacterium can be found in an ubiquitous manner in fresh water where it can survive temperature variations f...

We prove an almost sure invariance principle (approximation by d-dimensional Brownian motion) for vector-valued Hölder observables of large classes of nonuniformly hyperbolic dynamical systems. These systems include Axiom A diffeomorphisms and flows as well as systems modelled by Young towers with moderate tail decay rates. In particular, the position variable of the planar periodic Lorentz gas...

Chlorine is a popular method for controlling bacterial growth in cooling towers. However, there are several drawbacks such as the difficulties in maintaining the disinfection efficacy particularly at high temperature and pH. In order to overcome these difficulties, an inorganic disinfectant based on silver and copper, which is called EEKO-BALL (commercial name), was recently developed. EEKO-BAL...

During extremely hot summer days, air conditioning systems are known as major electricity consumers in residential, commercial and industrial sectors. Moreover, high energy requirement of multiple-chiller plants may cause an interconnected power grid be faced with annual on-peak electrical demand, load-generation mismatch, voltage collapse and catastrophic wide area blackout. Therefore, this pa...

salons. M. conceptionense belongs to the M. fortuitum group and was isolated in a posttraumatic osteitis infl ammation (10). M. chimaera belongs to MAC and has been isolated only in patients with pulmonary disorders but not from immunocompromised patients. The authors reported that the isolate showed unusually high virulence. We isolated this species for the fi rst time in an environmental samp...