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Celal Bayar University
Education•Magnesia ad Sipylum, Turkey•
About: Celal Bayar University is a education organization based out in Magnesia ad Sipylum, Turkey. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Heat transfer. The organization has 2960 authors who have published 6024 publications receiving 100646 citations.
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Hacettepe University1, Karadeniz Technical University2, Erciyes University3, Mersin University4, Selçuk University5, Marmara University6, Gazi University7, Akdeniz University8, Boston Children's Hospital9, Kocaeli University10, Başkent University11, Celal Bayar University12, Ankara University13, Çukurova University14, Adnan Menderes University15
TL;DR: The aim of this prospective, multicenter study was to define the etiology and clinical features of acute kidney injury (AKI) in a pediatric patient cohort and to determine prognostic factors.
Abstract: The aim of this prospective, multicenter study was to define the etiology and clinical features of acute kidney injury (AKI) in a pediatric patient cohort and to determine prognostic factors. Pediatric-modified RIFLE (pRIFLE) criteria were used to classify AKI. The patient cohort comprised 472 pediatric patients (264 males, 208 females), of whom 32.6% were newborns (median age 3 days, range 1–24 days), and 67.4% were children aged >1 month (median 2.99 years, range 1 month–18 years). The most common medical conditions were prematurity (42.2%) and congenital heart disease (CHD, 11.7%) in newborns, and malignancy (12.9%) and CHD (12.3%) in children aged >1 month. Hypoxic/ischemic injury and sepsis were the leading causes of AKI in both age groups. Dialysis was performed in 30.3% of newborns and 33.6% of children aged >1 month. Mortality was higher in the newborns (42.6 vs. 27.9%; p 1 month.
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TL;DR: In this paper, an exergy analysis of a 7250 m3/d reverse osmosis (RO) desalination plant in California was conducted by using actual plant operation data, and an alternative design was investigated to improve its performance.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors improved a model predicting daily soil temperatures depending on depth and time, which can provide the researchers with easily accessible predictions of daily soil temperature variations, which were modeled from daily fluctuations in air temperatures using a sinusoidal function of time and depth.
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TL;DR: The distribution of Blastocystis sp.
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TL;DR: It is concluded that the perioperative use of bupivacaine and corticosteroids during lumbar discectomy maintains effective postoperative analgesia and decreases opioid usage without complications.
Abstract: STUDY DESIGN A prospective and controlled study of perioperative use of combined local anesthetic and corticosteroid in lumbar disc surgery. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA The anti-inflammatory mechanism of corticosteroids is considered to be caused by the inhibition of phospholipase A2, which plays an important role in the pain mechanism of lumbar disc problems. Although some authors have demonstrated that the use of intramuscular bupivacaine during lumbar discectomy resulted in a marked reduction of postoperative back pain, others have reported that the key intervention was probably the administration of epidural corticosteroid. The coadministration of these two drugs in lumbar disc surgery for the relief of postoperative back pain has yet not been studied adequately. OBJECTIVES Assessment of the combined use of perioperative corticosteroids and bupivacaine for the relief of postoperative pain after lumbar disc surgery. METHODS Forty-four selected patients had acute-onset single-level unilateral herniated nucleus pulposus that were refractory to conservative management. All patients underwent lumbar disc surgery under standard general anesthesia. Before surgical incision, the skin and subcutaneous tissues were infiltrated with 10 mL of 1% lidocaine with 1:200,000 adrenaline to produce local vasoconstriction. During wound closure, 20 mL 0.9% saline in Group 1 (n = 22) and 20 mL 0.25% bupivacaine in Group 2 (n = 22) were injected into the paravertebral muscles and subcutaneus tissues. In addition, a piece of autologous fat taken from the wound was first soaked in 40 mg of methylprednisolone for 10 minutes, then placed over the exposed nerve root, and the remaining steroid was flushed into the wound in Group 2. The wound was closed after drug administration in both groups. In the postoperative period, all patients received 100 mg of meperidine intramuscularly when needed and were allowed to receive a second dose at least 4 hours later than the first dose for postoperative analgesia. Postoperative back pain intensity, heart rate, and mean arterial pressure were assessed 1, 3, 6, and 12 hours after the conclusion of surgery. RESULTS Visual analog scale pain scores for the postoperative recordings were lower in Group 2 than in Group 1, but these findings were not statistically significant. Patients in Group 1 received 77.3 +/- 48.8 mg meperidine, and those in Group 2 received 31.8 +/- 45.5 mg meperidine, for pain medication in the first 12 hours (P < 0.05). Heart rate and mean arterial pressure were not significantly different between the two groups in all recording periods. CONCLUSION It is concluded that the perioperative use of bupivacaine and corticosteroids during lumbar discectomy maintains effective postoperative analgesia and decreases opioid usage without complications.
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Michael Berk | 116 | 1284 | 57743 |
G. Raven | 114 | 1879 | 71839 |
Tjeerd Ketel | 99 | 1067 | 46335 |
Francesco Dettori | 95 | 1026 | 41313 |
Manuel Schiller | 95 | 1004 | 41734 |
John A. McGrath | 75 | 631 | 24078 |
E. Pesen | 50 | 206 | 10958 |
Devendra Singh | 49 | 314 | 10386 |
Fatih Selimefendigil | 43 | 178 | 4522 |
Mehmet Karabacak | 40 | 111 | 3515 |
Nurullah Akkoc | 38 | 193 | 7626 |
Daiana Stolz | 38 | 239 | 7708 |
Menemşe Gümüşderelioğlu | 34 | 136 | 3328 |
Mehmet Sezer | 34 | 184 | 3543 |
Mehmet Pakdemirli | 33 | 137 | 3581 |