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    Bacteraemia following single-stage percutaneous dilatational tracheostomy

    Surgical tracheostomy in critically ill adults has largely been replaced by physicians performing percutaneous dilatational tracheostomy (PDT) at the bedside. Complications associated with this technique inclu...

    A. G. Saayman, G. P. Findlay, R. A. Barnes, M. P. Wise in Intensive Care Medicine (2009)

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    Investigation of strain transfer to a sensor protection system embedded in concrete using finite element analysis

    Optical fibre-based sensor systems are being used increasingly in civil engineering applications where structural integrity monitoring is of interest or concern. This paper reports on an optimisation scheme fo...

    A. Hameed, G. F. Fernando, J. G. Hetherington, R. D. Brown in Materials and Structures (2002)

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    Measurement of Serum Antigen Concentration by Ultrasound-Enhanced Immunoassay and Correlation with Clinical Outcome in Meningococcal Disease

     The distribution of Neisseria meningitidis serogroup B and C polysaccharide antigen in blood and the prognostic significance of antigen concentration was examined by ultrasound-enhanced immunoagglutination of co...

    M. A. Sobanski, R. A. Barnes, S. J. Gray in European Journal of Clinical Microbiology … (2000)

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    The diagnosis of ventilator-associated pneumonia using non-bronchoscopic, non-directed lung lavages

    Objectives: (1)To assess the diagnostic utility of quantitative cultures of non-bronchoscopic lung lavage (NBL) in ventilator-associated pneumonia and evaluate the role of the Bacterial ...

    P. G. Flanagan, G. P. Findlay, J. T. Magee, A. Ionescu in Intensive Care Medicine (2000)

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    Aspergillosis in Immunocompromised Patients Part I: The Problem of Diagnosis

    Fungal infection is an increasing problem in immunocompromised patients and is associated with a high mortality. The use of more aggressive cytotoxic regimens and bone marrow transplantation (BMT) for the trea...

    R. A. Barnes, T. R. Rogers in Fungal Antigens (1988)

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    Aspergillosis in Immunocompromised Patients. Part II: Evaluation of an Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay (Elisa) for the Detection of Aspergillus Antigen

    We evaluate an IgG inhibition ELISA, developed at the Mycological Reference Laboratory, in a retrospective study of 15 bone marrow transplant and leukemic patients. The group included 8 patients with proven in...

    K. A. Haynes, R. A. Barnes, E. V. Wilson, V. M. Hearn in Fungal Antigens (1988)

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    Sulphur deposit account

    R. A. Barnes looks at an OECD study on the transport of air pollutants over long distances

    R. A. Barnes in Nature (1977)