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A Case Of Dandy-Walker Syndrome, Stanlies D'Souza

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A Large Anterior Mediastinal Mass With Complete Opacification Of Left Hemithorax, Stanlies D'Souza

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A Case Of Marfan Syndrome With Thoracic Aortic Root Dilatation, Stanlies D'Souza

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Acute Pain Management Patient On Suboxone® Buprenorphine/Naloxone Presenting For Anterior Cervical Discectomy And Fusion, Stanlies D'Souza

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Multimodal Analgesia Technique In A Chronic Opioid Dependent Patient, Stanlies D'Souza

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A Case Of Severe Emergence Agitation In The Post- Operative Care Unit In A Child With Lost Intravenous Line, Stanlies D'Souza

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A Case Of Lennox- Gastaut Syndrome In A Child With Panhypopitutarism, Stanlies D'Souza

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Procedural-Memory, Working-Memory, And Declarative-Memory Skills Are Each Associated With Dimensional Integration In Sound-Category Learning, Carolyn Quam, Alisa Wang, W. Todd Maddox, Kimberly Golisch

Speech and Hearing Sciences Faculty Publications and Presentations

This paper investigates relationships between procedural-memory, declarative-memory, and working-memory skills and adult native English speakers’ novel sound-category learning. Participants completed a sound-categorization task that required integrating two dimensions: one native (vowel quality), one non-native (pitch). Similar information-integration category structures in the visual and auditory domains have been shown to be best learned implicitly (e.g., Maddox et al., 2006). Thus, we predicted that individuals with greater procedural-memory capacity would better learn sound categories, because procedural memory appears to support implicit learning of new information and integration of dimensions. Seventy undergraduates were tested across two experiments. Procedural memory was assessed using …

A Case Of Pheochromocytoma Presenting For Adrenalectomy, Stanlies D'Souza

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Health Implications In Regards To The Changing Nature Of Work, Carly E. Kalis

Student Publications

This theoretical paper is relevant to nontraditional workers, traditional employees, and businesses searching for ways to enhance workers’ health and well-being. Businesses should also find this information helpful if they are aiming to increase their bottom line. The changing nature of work has health implications for both nontraditional workers and traditional employees; however, it has not been readily studied. I review the current literature available and analyze the health implications for both nontraditional workers and traditional employees. After reviewing a variety of literature I propose two theoretical propositions. My first proposition is that the changing nature of work, specifically the …

Immune Checkpoints In Cancer Treatment, Matthew A. Cherubino

Student Publications

Despite the human immune system, cancer thrives in an extremely hostile environment. Cancer is the second most common cause of death in the U.S. with about 600,000 deaths every year, and cancer is expected to surpass heart disease as the most common cause of death in the U.S. Immune checkpoint inhibitors are a novel and promising therapeutic for treating cancer in its late stages.

Pediatric Cancers: Development And Treatment Methods, Makayla M. Walker

Student Publications

Pediatric cancers are cancers that develop in kids and adolescents ages 0-19. Pediatric cancers usually develop in three ways: through inherited gene mutations, parental exposure to toxins, and acquired gene mutations. While cancer can affect children and adults alike, treatment becomes more difficult for children due to their physical predevelopment stages. Therefore, it is important to discuss all methods of treatment when dealing with a particular pediatric cancer in order to choose the most effective method.

How The Misunderstanding That Heroin Addiction Is A Choice And The Stigma Surrounding Medication-Assisted Treatment Leads To More Overdose Deaths, Margaret M. Drew

Student Publications

Heroin is an opioid that commonly appears as white or brown powder. Eventually a person can become physically dependent on heroin, meaning the body begins to expect the drug. A sudden withdrawal from the drug can cause intense symptoms such as vomiting, muscle pain, and cravings, often leading to relapse (Shannon, p. 172). Although the initial decision to try heroin may be up to the addict, due to the dependence one develops when using heroin, addiction eventually morphs into an involuntary compulsion. There are many factors out of an individual’s control that influence their likelihood of trying heroin and becoming …

Profound Impacts And Benefits Of Near-Death Experiences, Abigail D. Reitz

Student Publications

In his 1975 book, Life After Life, Dr. Raymond A. Moody coined the term “near-death experience (NDE)” as an umbrella term to describe the personal experiences and sensations that occur during an altered state of consciousness on the threshold of death. While controversy arises over the highly subjective nature of near-death experiences and the empirical research surrounding them, NDEs are usually marked by similar sensations and certainly have one thing in common: they often have profound, positive impacts on affected individuals that change their outlooks moving forward. Birk Engmann comments on the impact of NDEs in Near-Death Experiences: Heavenly Insight …

The Write Stuff - Autumn 2018 (Vol.15, No.4), Research Medical Library

Write Stuff 2018

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Male-Female Differences In The Prevalence Of Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma And Residential Proximity To Superfund Sites In Kentucky, Ramona Stone, W. Brent Webber

Public Health Sciences Faculty Publications

Non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) is a category of cancers that arise from lymphocytes. Previous work by the authors demonstrated a significant association between residential proximity to Superfund sites in Kentucky and cumulative incidence rates of NHL. In both the U.S. and Kentucky, age-adjusted NHL rates in males consistently exceed rates in females, despite NHL often arising later in the lifespan when females outnumber males. The current investigation sought to determine whether the NHL rate difference by sex is associated with proximity to environmental toxicants. Cancer data for a period of 18 years were obtained from the Kentucky Cancer Registry. Superfund geospatial …

Ada News - 10/01/2018, American Dental Association, Publishing Division

ADA News

Established in 1970 as the official newspaper of the American Dental Association, the ADA News serves practicing dentists and others allied to the dental profession in the U.S. and internationally. It is the No. 1 source of news and information about the many benefits and services the ADA delivers to members daily as well as timely information on scientific, social, political and economic developments affecting dentistry and health care.

Natural And Artificial Object Recognition: The Superiority Of Natural Shape Features, Lauren Pedersen

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the ability of 44 young adults (mean age = 21.7 years) to compare natural and artificial three-dimensional (3-D) objects using their senses of vision and touch. Previous research has indicated that the information content provided by a stimulus set can have a significant effect on a participant’s ability to perform cross-modal object recognition tasks. A primary goal of the present study was to understand what shape features are transferable between visual and haptic modalities. Participants haptically manipulated objects from one of two stimulus sets: bell peppers (Capsicum annuum) and sinusoidally-modulated spheres (SIMS). …

Expanding Indications Of Endovascular Aortic Aneurysm Repair, Zia Ur Rehman

Section of Cardiothoracic Surgery

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Expanding Indications Of Endovascular Aortic Aneurysm Repair, Zia Ur Rehman

Section of Cardiothoracic Surgery

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Premedical Programs Newsletter, October 2018, University Of Dayton

Pre-Health Resource Center Campus Communications

Newsletter for students, staff, and faculty in the premedical and predental programs.

A Word From The Writing Team (October 2018), Jennifer Wilson, Ms, Els, Pam Walter, Mfa

A Word From the Writing Team (Newsletter)

This issue includes:

• Writing Lessons from Ted-Ed
• WHYY's Maiken Scott on Communicating Science
• Paywall: The Business of Scholarship

Designing The Ideal Perioperative Pain Management Plan Starts With Multimodal Analgesia., Eric S. Schwenk, Edward R. Mariano

Department of Anesthesiology Faculty Papers

Multimodal analgesia is defined as the use of more than one pharmacological class of analgesic medication targeting different receptors along the pain pathway with the goal of improving analgesia while reducing individual class-related side effects. Evidence today supports the routine use of multimodal analgesia in the perioperative period to eliminate the over-reliance on opioids for pain control and to reduce opioid-related adverse events. A multimodal analgesic protocol should be surgery-specific, functioning more like a checklist than a recipe, with options to tailor to the individual patient. Elements of this protocol may include opioids, non-opioid systemic analgesics like acetaminophen, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory …

Detection Of (1,3)-Β-D-Glucan In Cerebrospinal Fluid In Histoplasma Meningitis, Thein Myint, Felicia C. Chow, Karen C. Bloch, Luke Raymond-Guillen, Thomas E. Davis, Patty W. Wright, Laila Woc-Colburn, Raed N. Khairy, Alan C. Street, Tomotaka Yamamoto, Amanda Albers, L. Joseph Wheat, Chadi A. Hage

Internal Medicine Faculty Publications

The diagnosis of central nervous system (CNS) histoplasmosis is often difficult. Although cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) (1,3)-β-d-glucan (BDG) is available as a biological marker for the diagnosis of fungal meningitis, there are limited data on its use for the diagnosis of Histoplasma meningitis. We evaluated CSF BDG detection, using the Fungitell assay, in patients with CNS histoplasmosis and controls. A total of 47 cases and 153 controls were identified. The control group included 13 patients with a CNS fungal infection other than histoplasmosis. Forty-nine percent of patients with CNS histoplasmosis and 43.8% of controls were immunocompromised. The median CSF …

Dental Practice Success Vol. 5 No. 3, American Dental Association, Publishing Division

Dental Practice Success

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Three Years Of Growth Hormone Therapy In Children Born Small For Gestational Age: Results From The Answer Program, Robert Rapaport, Peter Lee, Judith L. Ross, Paul Saenger, Vlady Ostrow, Giuseppe Piccoli

Department of Pediatrics Faculty Papers

Growth hormone (GH) is used to treat short stature and growth failure associated with growth disorders. Birth size and GH status variably modulate response to GH therapy. The aim of this study was to determine the effect of birth size on response to GH therapy, and to determine the impact of GH status in patients born small for gestational age (SGA) on response to GH therapy. Data from the prospective, non-interventional American Norditropin® Studies: Web-Enabled Research (ANSWER) Program were analyzed for several growth outcomes in response to GH therapy over 3 years. GH-naïve children from the ANSWER Program were included …

A Systematic Review Of Treating Recurrent Head And Neck Cancer: A Reintroduction Of Brachytherapy With Or Without Surgery., Julianna Rodin, Voichita Bar-Ad, David Cognetti, Joseph Curry, Jennifer Johnson, Chad Zender, Laura Doyle, David Kutler, Benjamin E. Leiby, William M. Keane, Adam J. Luginbuhl

Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery Faculty Papers

Purpose: To review brachytherapy use in recurrent head and neck carcinoma (RHNC) with focus on its efficacy and complication rates.

Material and methods: A literature search of PubMed, Ovid, Google Scholar, and Scopus was conducted from 1990 to 2017. Publications describing treatment of RHNC with brachytherapy with or without surgery were included. The focus of this review is on oncologic outcomes and the safety of brachytherapy in the recurrent setting.

Results: Thirty studies involving RHNC treatment with brachytherapy were reviewed. Brachytherapy as adjunctive treatment to surgical resection appears to be associated with an improved local regional control and overall survival, …

Screening, Brief Intervention, Referral To Treatment (Sbirt) As A Harm Reduction Public Health Approach For At-Risk College Students, Karen V. Duhamel

Health Sciences Faculty Publications

SBIRT is a “comprehensive, integrated, and public health approach to the delivery of early intervention and treatment services for persons with substance use disorders or at-risk of developing these disorders” (MA SBIRT, 2019).

Can college counselors at a private university in CT who triage college students at-risk for problematic substance use, by using the Screening, Brief Intervention, Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) approach, as opposed to non-SBIRT, identify and refer more at-risk students to substance treatment within an 8-10-week timeframe?

Coordination Of Inpatient And Outpatient Care For Neurology Patients Undergoing Epilepsy Monitoring, Sara Schrock, Michelle Beane, Kathryn Cope, Mark Parker, Suneela Nayak, Ruth Hanselman, Stephen Tyzik, Amy Sparks, Brendan Lilley

Operations Transformation

ORGANIZING A SYSTEM TO CONSOLIDATE EPILEPSY REFERRALS TO AN OUTPATIENT NEUROLOGY PRACTICE

An outpatient neurology practice was experiencing delayed or lost referrals for epilepsy monitoring. This delay was leading many patients to suffer unnecessary and unmanaged seizures and, in some cases, frequent trips to the emergency department.

As a result, a team consisting of the neurology practice and neuro-navigators used baseline metrics to demonstrate the current state of the problem and conducted a root cause analysis that outlined several causes. A number of countermeasures were initiated with the goal of decreasing referral misses.

Post the initiation of two KPIs, a …

Strategies To Improve Resource Availability For New Graduate Nurses In A Critical Care Setting, Natasha Stankiewicz, Jonathan Archibald, Shawn Taylor, Deborah Jackson, Bonnie Boivin, Mark Parker, Suneela Nayak, Stephen Tyzik, Ruth Hanselman, Amy Sparks

Operations Transformation

STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE RESOURCE AVAILABILITY FOR NEW GRADUATE NURSES

Due to changes in the employment arena, health care organizations are hiring new graduate RNs into acute care. At an academic tertiary medical center, new hires typically are assigned into a night shift, which traditionally has less resource availability.

The results of a recent AHRQ hospital survey on patient culture safety demonstrated that new graduates were feeling unsupported and that patient safety could be potentially compromised. A team of caregivers developed several goals to provide increased support, encouragement and education to night shift new hires. Improvement in overall patient care and …