Aim To develop a protocol to ensure the quality of respiratory protective devices for healthcare workers nursing and treating patients with possible or confirmed COVID-19 in the Catharina hospital. Background Due to the COVID-19 outbreak a shortage of respirators is occurring worldwide; more specifically, CE-certified FFP2 respirators. This has…[Read more]

Considering the effects of the micronized douches independently from the type of solution used (either hyaluronic acid or isotonic saline solution), although no difference emerged between study and control group for any of the objective parameters, there was an improvement of Sino-Nasal Outcome Test-22 scores (p = .0005), visual analogue scale for…[Read more]

However, the contributions of meteorological forcing (air temperature and wind) accounted for a larger proportion of 63% and 57% in summer and autumn. The benefit of our EnKF model denoises the Gaussian noise contained in observation and simulation, which offers a chance to isolate and identify even a minor driving factor (i.e., meteorological…[Read more]

sed on lncRNA expression can effectively predict the OS of HCC patients with fibrosis as well as the OS or RFS of HCC patients without fibrosis.Anaplastic thyroid carcinoma (ATC) is a highly aggressive tumor with a poor prognosis and a low median survival rate because of insufficient effective therapeutic modalities. Recently, mesoporous silica…[Read more]