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    Design and Performance of Low Reynolds Number Airfoils for Solar-Powered Flight

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    A Royal Jelly Mixture with Berberine for Dressing Change on a Refractory Skin Ulcer: A Case Report

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    It has been reported that a 92-year-old female had got a bruise superficialwound on her right leg one and a half years ago, developing into refractoryskin ulcer due to improper management before. A prepared cream, mixedroyal jelly with berberine for dressing change, was made on the scenethrough the crush of berberine tablets, working with fresh royal jelly.Topical dressing change with the cream was done every 3 days, and twomonths later, such the ulcer became clean and was covered fully with freshgranulation tissue. This kind of cream consists of the ingredients of TCMpurely, free of antibiotic, and being quite effective clinically, also helpfulfor proper use of antibiotic

    An Introduction of the Vaporized Therapy with Tea Herb Drink for Relieving Agitation due to Pulmonary Encephalopathy

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    What methods would you choose apart from increasing sedatives foragitation in an advanced patient with hypercapnic encephalopathy dueto AECOPD? This is a 94-year-old female who suffered from COPD forover 30 years, occurred with an accelerated episode of cough, productivesputum and a dropping down to 86% in SatOâ‚‚ due to a cold weather. Adiagnosis of pulmonary encephalopathy (PE) was made on the basis of thesubsequent agitation and delirium, and the sedatives, such as quatiepineand haloperidol, had to be given for her mental excitation respectively, butshe still pulled out indwelling needle herself and refused to any infusiontherapy. As an alternative, a vaporized therapy integrated with tea herbdrinking had to be applied to relieving her agitation, being designedas the vaporization of the inhaled oxygenation by means of high-flowoxygenation device (HFOD), with an ampoule of ambroxol mixed into theinhaler and simultaneous drinking of TCM tea herb for reducing sputum,helping dissolve the mucoid bolts inside her terminal bronchioles whenbeing infected. We thought that a better efficacy would be achieved forhypercapnic encephalopathy due to AECOPD if we concentrate on a goodventilation of small airway through the vaporized therapy
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