There is increasing recognition that systematic post–cardiac arrest care after return of
spontaneous circulation (ROSC) can improve the likelihood of patient survival with good …

This account of the mechanisms of scleroderma highlights the genetic and molecular
changes that cause the vascular changes and fibrosis in the disease. The role of …

Drowning accounts for more than one half million deaths annually worldwide. This number
is probably a gross underestimate because of underreporting. 12 In highly developed …

Objective The 1980 American College of Rheumatology (ACR) classification criteria for
systemic sclerosis (SSc) lack sensitivity for early SSc and limited cutaneous SSc. The …

The ATLAS [1] general purpose detector is used for the study of proton-proton (pp) and
heavy-ion collisions at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC)[2]. It successfully collected …

The discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012, by the ATLAS and CMS experiments, was a
success achieved with only a percent of the entire dataset foreseen for the LHC. It opened a …

Background Systemic sclerosis (scleroderma) is characterized by immunologic
abnormalities, injury of endothelial cells, and tissue fibrosis. Abnormal oxidative stress has …

Objective. The 1980 American College of Rheuma-tology (ACR) classification criteria for
systemic sclerosis (SSc) lack sensitivity for early SSc and limited cutaneous SSc. The …

Background: Central venous catheters are a principal source of nosocomial bloodstream
infections, which are difficult to control. Objective: To determine the efficacy of catheters …

Background The use of central venous catheters impregnated with either minocycline and
rifampin or chlorhexidine and silver sulfadiazine reduces the rates of catheter colonization …