Fatal poisoning with 2,4-Dinitrophenol: learning via case study

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Matthew Dominic Newport ◽  
Tarek Said
Keyword(s):  
Emergency Department ◽  
Weight Loss ◽  
Emergency Services ◽  
Human Consumption ◽  
Cardiovascular Collapse ◽  
Fatal Poisoning ◽  
Prompt Treatment ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Uk

2,4-Dinitrophenol (DNP) is an industrial chemical. It is illegal to sell it for human consumption in countries including the UK and the US. However, as DNP is available illegally online, accidental or deliberate DNP poisoning may be seen in people using it for weight loss or bodybuilding. Aggressive, multidisciplinary medical management is required to manage the ensuing hyperthermia, respiratory failure, cardiovascular collapse and multi-organ failure; there is a high risk of cardiac arrest. Emergency services should be vigilant in both initiating prompt treatment and alerting the receiving emergency department as well as taking precautions to minimise their own exposure. This case report concerns a deliberate, fatal DNP poisoning and considers DNP's history, resurgence and toxicity management.

scholarly journals Impact of Prioritization on the Outpatient Queuing System in the Emergency Department with Limited Medical Resources

Symmetry ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 796 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ao Zhang ◽  
Xiaomin Zhu ◽  
Qian Lu ◽  
Runtong Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Emergency Department ◽  
Emergency Services ◽  
Service System ◽  
Queuing System ◽  
Hospital Service ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Queuing Model ◽  
Medical Resources ◽  
Proposed Model

The emergency department has an irreplaceable role in the hospital service system because of the characteristics of its emergency services. In this paper, a new patient queuing model with priority weight is proposed to optimize the management of emergency department services. Compared with classical queuing rules, the proposed model takes into consideration the key factors of service and the first-come-first-served queuing rule in emergency services. According to some related queuing indicators, the optimization of emergency services is discussed. Finally, a case study and some compared analysis are conducted to illustrate the practicability of the proposed model.

Improvisation in Dance and the Movement of Everyday Life

2019 ◽  
pp. 52-64
Author(s):  
Libby Worth
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Development ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
The Us ◽  
Dance Improvisation ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Insight Into

Dance improvisation, as developed in the UK and the US in particular, has become associated with a number of tropes that apparently offer means of best practice. By attending to a few of these, I examine how they might offer insight into dance improvisation. This incorporates research into ways in which improvisation is a part of everyday life, as demonstrated most clearly in examples of infant movement and cognitive development. Taking Henry Montes and Marcus Coates’s dance film A Question of Movement as a case study example, I consider how their innovative way of dancing responses to life questions connects with the infant’s reliance on ‘thinking in movement’, a term offered by Maxine Sheets-Johnstone. Finally, I consider what dancers can learn from people living with chronic dementia-related diseases who forge ways to live in a perpetual present and, conversely, what insight dancers might offer through integration of dance improvisatory processes in caregiving.

Administrative Law Values and National Security Functions

2020 ◽  
pp. 634-655
Author(s):  
Laura A. Dickinson
Keyword(s):  
National Security ◽  
Administrative Law ◽  
Comparative Case Study ◽  
Limited Extent ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Status ◽  
Executive Discretion ◽  
The Uk

This chapter focuses on the case of extraterritorial military detention by the US and the UK—two countries that quickly deployed and then repeatedly refined their detention policies during the nearly two decades following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Military detention is arguably one of the quintessential national security functions where deference to executive discretion is strongest. As such, it is an activity that differs markedly from the types of practices that form the core work of many domestic administrative agencies, and administrative law scholarship tends to ignore the national security domain. Yet even here, in a realm seemingly so insulated from administrative law norms, agencies in both the US and the UK have implemented a variety of administrative rules and procedures, as well as non-judicial administrative tribunals to assess the status of detainees. Although the US and the UK followed different pathways, both countries have ultimately come to embrace administrative law frameworks for military detention. And both countries have gradually moved to protect, at least to a limited extent, the core administrative law values of rationality, transparency, participation, and procedural protection even as they have rejected fully judicialized detention processes. This comparative case study therefore illustrates the significance of administrative law values in the area of national security and points toward the need for further scholarship at the intersection of national security law and administrative law.

scholarly journals Media Framing and the Threat of Global Pandemics: The Ebola Crisis in UK Media and Policy Response

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisa Pieri
Keyword(s):  
Media Framing ◽  
Problem Definition ◽  
Treatment Recommendation ◽  
Media Communication ◽  
Political Response ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Best Responses

Pandemics pose new and difficult challenges. Risks associated with the spread of pandemics generate intense speculation in Western media. Taking the 2014–2015 Ebola outbreak as a case study, the article critically analyses how the risk of contagion in the US, Europe, and the UK has been constructed in UK media and policy discourse. Drawing on the importance of media framing in shaping a given problem definition, causal interpretation and treatment recommendation, the article critically assesses the impacts of the British newspaper framing of Ebola, questioning the rationale of a UK domestic political response based on containment and border screenings. The article also takes a comparative angle, engaging with constructions of previous pandemics. Underscoring the importance of a sociological analysis of these framings, the article critically reflects on the role of media communication in reproducing certain topoi, which reduce the scope for open public debate around best responses to a pandemic emergency.

scholarly journals Uneven Writing Spaces in Academic Publishing: A Case Study on Internationalisation in the Disciplines of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bárbara Sofía Rivera-López
Keyword(s):  
Molecular Biology ◽  
Ethnic Diversity ◽  
Research Unit ◽  
Academic Publishing ◽  
The Us ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
The Uk ◽  
New Research

More than 70% of the output of the highest impact international journals is produced by American and British scholars in the disciplines of Human Geography and Marketing (Gutierrez and Lopez-Nieva, 2001; Rosenstreich and Wooliscroft, 2006; Bański and Ferenc, 2013). Additionally, 85.3% of the editorial board members of international Marketing journals are based in the US (Rosenstreich and Wooliscroft, 2006). Furthermore, 95% of the journals in the Web of Science database use English as their language of publication (Paasi, 2015). These empirical data seem to indicate that international publication spaces are dominated by US and UK-based research (Paasi, 2015). In this context, this research seeks to deepen the debate by focusing on a new research unit: references. Through case studies on the referencing of the three higher impact journals in the disciplines of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (PLoS Biology, Cell, and Reviews of Biochemistry) it was possible to identify, describe and visually represent the spatial patterns of knowledge production. The main findings support previous literature; 74.9% of the references surveyed had at least one author from either the US or the UK. Moreover, there was a notable predominance of authors from the US (69.9%). Furthermore, there was a high preponderance of authors from English speaking countries (88.32%). Finally, it was determined that there is an uneven writing space created by three factors: marginalization, governmental and institutional evaluation practices and the use of English. As a conclusion, a series of managerial and linguistic suggestions for academic publishers is provided in order to promote ethnic diversity and genuinely global journal publishing spaces.

Treatment of disseminated TB with drug induced hepatitis/case study

2022 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Aran A Groover ◽  
Natalia A Huang
Keyword(s):  
Emergency Department ◽  
Weight Loss ◽  
Clinical Manifestation ◽  
Miliary Tuberculosis ◽  
Drug Induced ◽  
Pulmonary Tb ◽  
Associated Symptoms ◽  
Night Sweats ◽  
Hepatitis Case

Miliary Tuberculosis (TB) usually has an insidious clinical manifestation including fever, weight loss, night sweats, and little in the way of localizing symptoms or signs. There may be concurrent TB meningitis with associated symptoms. A 35-year old male has known case of pulmonary TB and HCV before three years ago. Presented to emergency department with Fever since 3-weeks ago, abdomen pain, headache since 10 days.

Access granted: Modern languages and issues of accessibility at university – a case study from Australia

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua Brown ◽  
Marinella Caruso
Keyword(s):  
Substantial Evidence ◽  
Course Structure ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World ◽  
Degree Structure ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The University ◽  
Professional Degrees

AbstractDiscussion about how to monitor and increase participation in languages study is gaining relevance in the UK, the US and Australia across various sectors, but particularly in higher education. In recent times levels of enrolment in modern languages at universities around the world have been described in terms of ‘crisis’ or even ‘permanent crisis’. In Australia, however, the introduction of a new course structure at the University of Western Australia, which established a three-year general Bachelor degree followed by professional degrees, has resulted in unprecedented levels of language enrolments. Using data from this university as a case in point, we provide substantial evidence to argue that language enrolments are directly related to overlooked issues of degree structure and flexibility, rather than to other factors.

Stage Two-Visiting the American Core

Going Virtual ◽  
2011 ◽  
pp. 116-140
Author(s):  
Paul Hildreth
Keyword(s):  
Face To Face ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Uk

Chapter VI describes Stage Two of the case study. Here we participate in a visit made by the UK core of the CoP to visit its peers in the US. In Stage Two, we want to focus on the issues and insights gained from our time with the UK core. In particular, Stage One showed us the importance of relationships for sustaining a distributed CoP and the importance of a face-to-face element in the development of the relationships. In Stage Two, we can observe the face-to-face element between the cores. Stage One also showed us the importance of the development and use of a shared artefact in the form of the planning document. In Stage Two, we can follow the continued development and use of the planning document.

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