[PDF][PDF] How to perform a lumbar puncture

CMP Chikusu - South Sudan Medical Journal, 2016 - ajol.info
Background The first reports of a lumbar puncture (LP) being undertaken are from the late
19th century [1]. Heinrich Irenaeus Quince (with whom the Lumbar Puncture is commonly …

2-year impact of an Older People Short Stay Unit team working across emergency areas in the over-75s

…, D Sills, L Clancy, K Stevenson, C Chikusu - Future Healthcare …, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Aims It is recognised that the older person, once admitted to hospital, frequently has a longer
length of stay (LOS) and occupies more bed days than other patients, so we focused on …

Cigarette smoking induced decrease in fibronectin and COL1A1 in locomotor muscle in a guinea pig COPD model

E Kritikaki, V Peinado, J Barbera, E Barreiro, K Padget… - 2021 - nrl.northumbria.ac.uk
Background: Sarcopenia is a major comorbidity in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary
disease (COPD) caused by decreased physical activity capacity, cigarette smoke (CS) …

[PDF][PDF] London Major Trauma System Management of Older Major Trauma Patients

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There are 12.5 million people aged 65 or over living in the UK. This is the fastest growing
age group, and the Office for National Statistics (ONS) estimates that by 2040 one in four …

[HTML][HTML] International Sarcopenia Translational Research Conference 2021

AA Sayer, M Birkbeck, G Cain, R Dodds, A Granic… - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Methods: 30 patients will be recruited from two North-East England NHS trusts within four
weeks of their first-ever ischaemic stroke causing unilateral lower-limb weakness. Patients …

[HTML][HTML] Frailty in Clinical Practice and Public Health

F SCORE, GS TO - 2020 - Springer
Background: Fall is an important event of frailty. However, there is few studies for simple
classification of fall risks predicting frailty without established fall risk assessment tools. …

[HTML][HTML] S1-THE SPRING STUDY: CHARACTERIZING RESILIENCE AND FRAILTY TO PHYSICAL STRESSORS USING A DYNAMICAL PHYSIOLOGICAL

TO COMMUNICATE - 2020 - Springer
We aim to develop signatures of physical resilience in older adults who will undergo clinical
stressors; validate the signatures’ ability to distinguish those who will, or not, respond …