CONCEPTUAL MODELS OF NURSING IN CRITICAL CARE

Conceptual Models of Nursing in Critical Care

Introduction.Intensive care units are systems organized for the provision of care to patients in critical situations.In general, it is suggested that intensive care consists of a multidisciplinary and interprofessional specialty.Nevertheless, the predominance, relative to the professions that incorporate these units, falls on nurses.A conceptual mo

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Integrative genome comparison of primary and metastatic melanomas.

A cardinal feature of malignant melanoma is its metastatic propensity.An incomplete view of the genetic events driving metastatic progression has been a major barrier to rational development of effective therapeutics and prognostic diagnostics for melanoma patients.In this study, we conducted global genomic characterization of primary and metastati

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Plasma levels of adhesion molecules are elevated in dermatomyositis-interstitial lung disease and associated with low paraoxonase-1 activity

Abstract Objective To evaluate circulating levels of intercellular cell adhesion molecule-1 (ICAM-1), vascular cell adhesion molecule-1 (VCAM-1) in patients with dermatomyositis (DM) and DM associated interstitial lung disease (DM-ILD).Methods We performed a cross-sectional study in plasma samples from DM patients and matched healthy controls.Plasm

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Improvement of Antitumor Therapies Based on Vaccines and Immune-Checkpoint Inhibitors by Counteracting Tumor-Immunostimulation

Immune-checkpoint inhibitors and antitumor vaccines may produce both tumor-inhibitory and tumor-stimulatory effects on growing tumors depending on the stage of tumor growth at which treatment is initiated.These paradoxical results are not necessarily incompatible with current tumor immunology but they might better be explained assuming the involvem

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