Effect of Back Care Program in Preventing Back injuries among Nursing students.

Musculoskeletal disorders include a wide range of inflammatory and degenerative conditions affecting the muscles, tendons, ligaments, joints, peripheral nerves and supporting blood vessels. These include clinical syndromes such as tendon inflammations and related conditions (tenosynovitis, epicondylitis, bursitis), nerve compression disorders (carpal tunnel syndromes, sciatica) and osteoarthorois, as well as less well standradised conditions such as myalgia, low back pain and other regional pain syndromes. Body regions most commonly involved are the low back, neck, shoulder, forearm and hand. Nevertheless, musculoskeletal disorders are the single largest category of work related illness. This study conducted in an effort to find out the effect of back care program in reducing the incidence of back pain among nursing students. The study included 40 nursing students who have regular clinical postings. This study was a pre and post test experimental study design. The results were analysed using paired t test. The results showed a significant reduction in the occurrence of back pain. From this study, it is concluded that the back care program given to the nursing students significantly reduced the occurrence of back injury and thereby reducing incidence of back pain. So it is also recommended to add back care programme in nursing programme of all level. It is also recommended to have frequent classes on back care with debriefing to ensure all nurses attending the back care programme understand the biomechanics of doing their job safely and with atmost energy conservation. It is also recommended to stick bills and circulate pamphlets on en back care to nurses and special information can be given in regard to the firm where they work

First Covid-19 maternal mortality in the UK associated with thrombotic complications.

We report the first maternal death of a 29-year woman of Pakistani origin at Birmingham Heartlands Hospital (BHH), UK on the 8 April 2020. She had a body mass index (BMI) of 35, type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) on metformin and insulin, renal tubular acidosis, asthma and vitamin D deficiency. In her first pregnancy, she had a stillborn baby. At her first antenatal (booking) visit, her glycated haemoglobin (HbA1c) was 9.7%. She also had a high albumin creatinine ratio but with normal kidney function

Electrochemical Oxidative Fluorination of an Oxide Perovskite

We report the successful electrochemical intercalation of F-ions into a densely packed perovskite oxide from a liquid electrolyte at room temperature. Using galvanostatic oxidation and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy coupled with operando X-ray diffraction, we show that roughly 0.5 equivalents of F-ions can be inserted onto the vacant A-site of the perovskite ReO3. Density functional theory calculations indicate that the intercalated phase is thermodynamically unfavorable compared to other less densely packed polymorphs of ReO3F. Pairing X-ray spectroscopy, neutron total scattering measurements, and magic-angle spinning 19F NMR confirms a rapid decomposition of the product on removal from the cell but nevertheless, these results clearly demonstrate that small anions like fluoride can be intercalated into solids as readily as alkali cations at room temperature, which opens new opportunities to electrochemically fluorinate many new materials.</div

Room-temperature electrochemical fluoride (de)insertion into CsMnFeF6

We report on the reversible, electrochemical (de)fluorination of CsMnFeF6 at room temperature using a liquid electrolyte. CsMnFeF6 was synthesized via three methods (hydrothermal, ceramic, and mechanochemical), each of which yields products in a defect pyrochlore structure with varying particle sizes and phase purities. After three galvanostatic cycles, approximately one fluoride ion can be reversibly (de)inserted into mechanochemical CsMnFeF6 for multiple cycles. Ex situ X-ray absorption spectroscopy confirmed that both Mn2+ and Fe3+ are redox active. The cell impedance decreases after one cycle, suggesting that the formation of fluoride vacancies in early cycles generates mixed-valent Fe and enhances the material’s conductivity. Ex situ synchrotron diffraction revealed subtle expansion and contraction of the CsMnFeF6 cubic lattice on insertion and removal, respectively, during the first two cycles. New reflections intensify in the ex situ diffraction patterns from cycle 3, corresponding to a topotactic transformation of CsMnFeF6 from the pyrochlore structure into an orthorhombic polytype that continues cycling fluoride ions reversibly

Thigh-length compression stockings and DVT after stroke

Controversy exists as to whether neoadjuvant chemotherapy improves survival in patients with invasive bladder cancer, despite randomised controlled trials of more than 3000 patients. We undertook a systematic review and meta-analysis to assess the effect of such treatment on survival in patients with this disease