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Impact Of Graded Passive Cycling On Hemodynamics, Cerebral Blood Flow, And Heart Function In Healthy Adults And Septic Icu Patients, Jennifer Chen
Impact Of Graded Passive Cycling On Hemodynamics, Cerebral Blood Flow, And Heart Function In Healthy Adults And Septic Icu Patients, Jennifer Chen
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Sepsis is a life-threatening dysregulation of host response to an infectious insult, which often leads to multi-organ failure. Sepsis survivors suffer from post-intensive care syndrome in part due to their prolonged bed rest and lack of mobility. Although early mobilization has been championed as a mechanism to counter the adverse effects associated with ICU immobility, due to sedation and mechanical ventilation, active early mobilization is not often administered in septic patients due to worries of hemodynamic instability and potential for inducing adverse events. Passive exercise is a mobilization modality that circumvents the need for patients to be conscious and participatory …
A Clinically Representative Rat Model Of Hip Hemiarthroplasty, Adam Dm Paish
A Clinically Representative Rat Model Of Hip Hemiarthroplasty, Adam Dm Paish
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Joint replacement is an increasingly common surgery with over 130,000 procedures performed annually in Canada. Although joint replacement surgery is highly successful, implants do not last a lifetime, and often have to be replaced via costly revision surgeries. Before innovations aimed at extending the life of implants are applied to the clinic, testing must be performed in animal models. Clinically representative small-animal models of joint replacement would be ideal in the initial stages of research and development, due to ease of handling and low costs, but few such models have been established in the literature. Thus, we describe the development …