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Article
Effects of hydrocortisone on posttraumatic stress disorder after septic shock: results from the CORTICUS Berlin Study Group
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Chapter and Conference Paper
The Changing Prognostic Determinants in the Critically Ill Patient
The science and art of risk stratification appeared in early 1953, when Virginia Apgar [1] published a simple physiological scoring tool to evaluate the newborn child. This system, still commonly used worldwide, ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
The Changing Prognostic Determinants in the Critically III Patient
The science and art of risk stratification appeared in early 1953, when Virginia Apgar [1] published a simple physiological scoring tool to evaluate the newborn child. This system, still commonly used worldwide, ...
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Article
Ploidic and Molecular Analysis of ‘Morado de Huetor’ Asparagus (Asparagus officinale L.) Population; A Spanish Tetraploid Landrace
A study has been conducted into the genetic variation analysis of the tetraploid asparagus landrace ‘Morado de Huetor’ and its relationship with current commercial cultivars using Random Amplified Polymorphic ...
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Article
Silica-Zirconia Coatings Produced by Dip** and EPD from Colloidal Sol–Gel Suspensions
SiO2-ZrO2 sols have been prepared via acid catalysis using a commercial colloidal suspension of zirconia and two silica alkoxides; tetraethoxysilane (TEOS) and methyltriethoxysilane (MTES). Suspensions with 10, 1...
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Article
Silica-Zirconia Sol–Gel Coatings Obtained by Different Synthesis Routes
Homogeneous xSiO2-(1−x)ZrO2 coatings have been prepared onto glass-slides, monocrystalline Si and stainless steel (AISI 304) using sols prepared via acid and basic catalysis. Zirconium tetrabutoxide (TBOZr), zirc...
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Article
Stability of Suspensions of Bioactive Particles Using Hybrid Organic–Inorganic Solutions as Dispersing Media
Functional coatings incorporating different types of particles developed by the sol–gel method have been proposed in the last few years for diverse applications. This work focuses on the preparation of homogen...
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Chapter
Scoring Systems and Outcome
The evaluation of severity of illness in the critically ill patient is made through the use of severity scores and prognostic models. Severity scores are instruments that aim at stratifying patients based on t...
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Article
Effect of rheology and processing parameters on the EPD coatings of basic sol-gel particulate sol
Homogeneous thick silica coatings were prepared onto metals substrates by Electrophoretic Deposition (EPD) using particulate sol-gel sols. The synthesis of the sols was performed by mixing tetraethoxysilane an...
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Chapter
CO and Dust Productions in 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko at 3 AU Post-Perihelion
Following the selection of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko as the new target of the Rosetta/ESA mission, observations of this comet were performed at the 30-m telescope of the Institut de radioastronomie millimét...
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Article
Time course of organ dysfunction comparing survivors and nonsurvivors: results of the multicentric study 'Sepsis occurrence in the acutely ill patients' (SOAP)
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Pre-ICU Factors
In the modern hospital, the intensive care unit (ICU) plays a small but very important part in the continuum of care. Although the majority of patients do not need ICU admission, a small but significant percen...
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Article
Silica Sol-Gel Coatings on Metals Produced by EPD
The objective of this work has been to combine the sol-gel method and the electrophoretic deposition (EPD) process to prepare thick coatings onto metallic substrates. Two different routes were used for prepari...
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Article
Occurrence of races and pathotypes of cucurbit powdery mildew in southeastern Spain
The causal agent of cucurbit powdery mildew in southeastern Spain has been investigated since 1996. Of the 139 single-spore isolates obtained, all were identified asSphaerotheca fusca. Four physiological races (1...
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Chapter
Discharging the Critically Ill Patient
Created 50 years ago, the intensive care unit (ICU) is now an essential part of hospital care. After a couple of decades in which ICU research was more concerned with technical issues, a significant number of ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Discharging the Critically Ill Patient
Created 50 years ago, the intensive care unit (ICU) is now an essential part of hospital care. After a couple of decades in which ICU research was more concerned with technical issues, a significant number of ...
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Chapter
Severity of Illness
As a direct result of the polio epidemics of the 1950s, critical care medicine developed in the Western world. This new field of medical practice was supported over the following decades by rapid developments ...
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Article
Detection of Squalene in Alpha-Fetoprotein and Fetal Serum Albumin from Bovine
Alpha-fetoprotein and fetal serum albumin have been simultaneously purified from fetal bovine serum by mild procedures utilizing ammonium sulfate, hydrophobic interaction, immobilized metal (nickel) affinity c...
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Article
Bioactive Sol-Gel Coatings for Orthopaedic Prosthesis
Sol-gel materials have been proposed in last years for clinical applications. In this work, bioactive sol-gel coatings were prepared from suspensions of up to 25% wt. of bioactive glass (CaO·SiO2·P2O5) particles ...
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Article
Preventing ageing on Al2O3 casting slips dispersed with polyelectrolytes
Slip casting process needs a highly stabilized and well-characterized suspension, which involves not only the traditional rheological measurements, but an estimation of the colloidal stability in terms of inte...
