Until the development of magnetic resonance (MR) imaging there was no nondestructive
technique for monitoring the pathologic response to acute spinal cord trauma. The …

During the second half of the twentieth century, the Arab intellectual and political scene
polarized between a search for totalizing doctrines--nationalist, Marxist, and religious--and …

Diabetes mellitus is increasing throughout the world. Cardiovascular disease (CVD) accounts
for up to 80% of excess mortality in this high-risk population. Patients with diabetes have …

BACKGROUND: Effective teamwork is crucial for safe surgery. Failures in nontechnical and
teamwork skills are frequently implicated in adverse events. The Observational Teamwork …

The paramagnetic magnetic resonance (MR) imaging contrast agent gadolinium
diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid (DTPA) is freely filtered at the glomerulus and is neither secreted …

To investigate the role of MR imaging in wallerian degeneration, a series of animal models
of increasingly complex peripheral nerve injury were studied by in vivo MR. Proximal tibial …

Distributed simulation (DS) is the concept of high-fidelity immersive simulation on-demand,
made widely available wherever and whenever it is required. DS provides an easily …

BACKGROUND: Although effective teamwork is fundamental to patient safety in the operating
room (OR), acute stress increasingly is recognized as detrimental for teamwork. This study …

Adsorption of pyridine on Brønsted acid sites of protonic zeolites has been studied using
density functional calculations within the cluster approach. Two types of cluster models …

Background— The optimal degree of heparin anticoagulation for peripheral vascular
interventions (PVIs) has not been defined. We sought to correlate total heparin dose and peak …