HEMODIALYSIS VASCULAR ACCESS: A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE ON ACCESS PROMOTION, BARRIERS, AND LESSONS FOR THE FUTURE

Hemodialysis Vascular Access: A Historical Perspective on Access Promotion, Barriers, and Lessons for the Future

This review describes the history of vascular access for hemodialysis (HD) over the past 8 decades.Reliable, repeatable vascular access for outpatient HD began in the 1960s with the Quinton-Scribner shunt.This was followed by the autologous Brecia-Cimino radial-cephalic arteriovenous fistula (AVF), which dominated HD vascular access for the next 20

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Lightning Protection Systems Suitable for Stables: A Case Study

The evolution of climate and of electrical devices are raising users’ awareness about the protection of structures and plants against common overvoltage phenomena and those ones of atmospheric origin.Therefore, a continuous evolution of thunderstorm phenomena, increasingly concentrated and intense, is occurring.Conversely, electric devices ar

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Generating Representative Executions [Extended Abstract]

Analyzing the behaviour of a concurrent program is made difficult by the number of possible executions.This problem can be alleviated by applying the theory of Mazurkiewicz traces to focus Bike Parts - Brakes - Complete only on the canonical representatives of the equivalence classes of the possible executions of the program.This paper presents a g

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Courts as organizations: Governance and legitimacy

The interdependence between governance and legitimacy of the courts is a subject that has not been much studied by scholars, especially those from the fields of public administration and organizational studies.Taking into account the importance of these topics for the functioning of these organizations, the purpose of this essay is twofold: to enri

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