AWAKE THORACIC EPIDURAL ANAESTHESIA FOR LAPAROTOMY: A SAFER ALTERNATIVE TO GENERAL ANAESTHESIA IN ASTHMATIC PATIENTS

Awake thoracic epidural anaesthesia for laparotomy: A safer alternative to general anaesthesia in asthmatic patients

Asthma is a common obstructive lung disease with a hallmark of airway inflammation and hyper-reactivity in response to a variety of stimuli.The morbidity and mortality in asthma is directly related to reversible airway obstruction and bronchospasm in response to specific triggers.The goal of the anaesthetist is to avoid eliciting triggering stimuli

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Dietary Proteins, Brown Fat, and Adiposity

High protein diets have become popular for body weight maintenance and weight loss despite controversies regarding efficacy and safety.Although both weight gain and weight Parts loss are determined by energy consumption and expenditure, data from rodent trials consistently demonstrate that the protein:carbohydrate ratio in high fat diets strongly i

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Modeling the appearance and progression of cognitive impairment

Introduction It remains difficult to predict which individuals will develop cognitive impairment and progress to major neurocognitive disorders.Prevention studies suffer from the long time frames and the manner in which this topic does not lend itself to randomized, double-blinded controlled trials.Objectives We aimed to construct a computer simula

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