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Climbing Rope Falls: Does the Type of Harness Influence Pattern and Severity of Injury?
Based on experimental data, it is widely believed that any extended climbing rope fall may cause life-threatening injuries when using a sit harness alone. This is mainly due to the…
Read more ›Considerations on Avalanche Survival, Therapeutic Principles, Self-rescue Techniques and Safety Equipment for Backcountry and Off-piste Skiers
The median annual mortality from snow avalanches registered in the 17 ICAR countries from 1981 to 1998 was 146. Swiss data document a mortality rate of 52.4% in completely-buried, versus…
Read more ›Hypoxia Attenuates the Sensation of Cold Stimuli
It is well documented that exposure to a hypoxic environment affects visual and auditory perception and attenuates cognitive function in humans. Since the perception of thermal stimuli is indispensable for…
Read more ›Nutritional Supplements and Nutrition in Mountains
Altitude acclimatization and altitude exercise are physiologically demanding for the body. During exercise at high altitudes, energy and fluid needs are almost difficult to satisfy with normal food intake. An…
Read more ›Breast Cancer: Characteristics Which Can be Evaluated on Fine Needle Aspiration Samples
Breast cancer is a serious health care problem, since it is the most common type of cancer in women and a leading cause of death from cancer. A diagnostic approach…
Read more ›Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease
The prevalence of gastroesophageal reflux disease in the Western world is rising and is now up to 20%. The main etiological factors are an incompetent anti reflux barrier and/or unsuccessful…
Read more ›Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment – a New Systematic Approach for Systematic Management of Geriatric Patients
In the article the comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA) – a new systematic approach to the collection of patient data that allows appropriate evaluation of chronic diseases, geron- tologic syndromes and functional…
Read more ›Mineralized Bone Histology of Metabolic Bone Diseases
The author presents the bone biopsy: indications for the procedure, laboratory treatment of the sample and bioptic histological pictures of major metabolic bone diseases. Bone biopsy retains the most important…
Read more ›Development of the Eye
The eye and, the sensory organ for vision, develops from the sensory placodes in the ectodermal germ layer like the other sense organs, in response to induction from the central…
Read more ›Negative Feedback
Negative feedback is one of the most difficult topics in physiology, possibly because descriptive thinking is useless. Instead, to analyse single constituents quantitatively or semiquantitatively, causal thinking is mandatory. By…
Read more ›Influence of the Arteriovenous Fistula as Hemodialysis Vascular Access on the Perfusion of Distal Structures – Palms and Fingers (Estimation of Three Parameters)
Hemodialysis is the most widely used method of renal replacement therapy in end-stage renal disease. It requires a reliable permanent vascular access and arteriovenous fistula (AVF) is the most commonly…
Read more ›The Frequency of Endometriosis among Healthy and Infertile Women
Background: Endometriosis involves an appearance of endometriotic tissue with all of its histological and functional properties outside the uterine cavity. The frequency of endometriosis in women of reproductive age without…
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