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Late urodynamic findings after treating traumatic rupture of the posterior urethra in boys
Uniaxial compression properties of fusion zone martensite in resistance spot-weld for QP980 steel
HIV Care Providers' Implementation of Routine Alcohol Reduction Support for Their Patients
Screening and brief intervention (SBI) for alcohol reduction is an important health promoting strategy for patients with HIV, and HIV care providers are optimally situated to support their patients' reduction efforts. We report results from analyses that use data collected from providers (n = 115) in 7 hospital-based HIV care centers in the New York City metropolitan area in 2007 concerning their routine use of 11 alcohol SBI components with their patients. Providers routinely implemented 5 or more of these alcohol SBI components if they (1) had a specific caseload (and were therefore responsible for a smaller number of patients), (2) had greater exposure to information about alcohol's effect on HIV, (3) had been in their present positions for at least 1 year, and (4) had greater self efficacy to support patients' alcohol reduction efforts. Findings suggest the importance of educating all HIV care providers about both the negative impact of excessive alcohol use on patients with HIV and the importance and value of alcohol SBIs. Findings also suggest the value of promoting increased self efficacy for at least some providers in implementing alcohol SBI components, especially through targeted alcohol SBI training
Simple urethral dilatation, endoscopic urethrotomy, and urethroplasty for urethral stricture disease in adult men
Influence of nano-sized carbon nanotube reinforcements on tensile deformation, cyclic fatigue, and final fracture behavior of a magnesium alloy
10.1007/s10853-011-6209-xJournal of Materials Science4783621-3638JMTS
Encapsulation of eugenyl acetate in PHBV using SEDS technique and in vitro release evaluation
Experimental investigations and numerical prediction on the effect of shielding area and post flow time in the GTAW of CP Ti sheets
Efect of antiseptic gels in the microbiologic colonization of the suture threads after oral surgery
Te work was supported by the Oral Medicine, Oral surgery and Implantology Unit. School of Medicine and
Dentistry, University of Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.Three diferent bioadhesive gels were evaluated in a double-blind randomized clinical trial in which
microbial growth in the suture thread was assessed following post-surgical application of the
aforementioned gels. Also assessed in this trial were, the intensity of post-surgical pain as well as
the degree of healing of the patients’ surgical wounds. A total of 21 patients (with 42 wisdom teeth)
participated in this trial. Chlorhexidine gel, chlorhexidine-chitosan gel, and hyaluronic acid gel were
evaluated, with a neutral water-based gel serving as the control agent. The aerobic and facultative
anaerobic bacterial recovery on blood agar was lower in the placebo group than in the experimental
groups. The most signifcant diference (p=0.04) was observed in the chlorhexidine-chitosan group. in
which the growth of Blood Agar and Mitis Salivarius Agar was signifcantly higher than in the placebo
group. The intensity of post-surgical pain was very similar among all the groups. Signifcantly better
healing rates were observed in the patients treated with chlorhexidine-chitosan gel when compared
with those who used the placebo gel (p=0.03), and in particular when compared with those patients
who used hyaluronic acid gel (p=0.01). Through our microbiological analyses, we were able to conclude
that none of the bioadhesive gels tested resulted in benefcial reductions in the bacterial/fungal
populations. However, the healing rates of patients who were treated with chlorhexidine-chitosan were
better than those of the patients who used either the placebo gel or the hyaluronic acid gel