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Management of Perioperative Nausea and Intractable Pain in Outpatient Surgery: Mechanisms, Strategies, and Clinical Considerations
Outpatient surgery centers are used instead of hospitals to schedule procedures more conveniently. Patients are able to make appointments more quickly and return to the comfort of their home on the day of surg...
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Open AccessNon-invasive vagus nerve stimulation attenuates proinflammatory cytokines and augments antioxidant levels in the brainstem and forebrain regions of Dahl salt sensitive rats
The anti-inflammatory effects of vagus nerve stimulation are well known. It has recently been shown that low-level, transcutaneous stimulation of vagus nerve at the tragus (LLTS) reduces cardiac inflammation i...
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Subclinical Retinal versus Brain Findings in Infants with Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy
To detect retinal features and abnormalities on optical coherence tomography (OCT) without pupil dilation and relate these to brain injury in infants with a clinical diagnosis of hypoxic ischemic encephalopath...
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Inadequate oral feeding as a barrier to discharge in moderately preterm infants
The objectives describe the frequency that inadequate oral feeding (IOF) is the reason why moderately preterm (MPT) infants remain hospitalized and its association with neonatal morbidities.
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Vulnerability of grazing and confined livestock in the Northern Great Plains to projected mid- and late-twenty-first century climate
The Northern Great Plains (NGP) region of the USA—which comprises Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Nebraska—is a largely rural area that provides numerous ecosystem services, includi...
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Financial credit and social discredit: the pawnbroking dilemma
Researching, and therefore marketing, ‘unmentionable’ products has always been challenging. Pawnbroking, the act of offering a loan secured by the pledge of an item of value, fits within this domain; its use i...
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Open AccessA Newfoundland cohort of familial and sporadic idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis patients: clinical and genetic features
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is an adult-onset Idiopathic Interstitial Pneumonia (IIP) usually diagnosed between age 50 to 70 years. Individuals with Familial Pulmonary Fibrosis (FPF) have at least one ...
