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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"CHG"”.
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Increasing Chlorhexidine (CHG) Daily Bathing Compliance
<p>Chlorhexidine gluconate (CHG) daily bathing in hospitalized patients in the intensive care setting is one of many interventions implemented by institutions to reduce and prevent central line associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs) and catheter associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs). …
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Preventing and Reducing CLABSI with Daily 2% CHG Wipes
… hospital. The process begins re-enforcing daily CHG (2% Chlorhexidine Gluconate) wipes to 100% compliance rates on our patients with central lines tailored to their age and body weights. The process ends with reducing the CLABSI rates of our unit and the entire hospital to 0. By working on the …
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Preventing Surgical Site Infections by Utilizing CHG Wipes for Preoperative Skin Preparation
… by implementing the use of a no rinse 2% CHG cloth in the surgical patient. The specific aim of the project is to reduce the rate of SSIs by 80% by December 31<sup>st</sup>, 2015. Due to a lack of a standardized care, specifically designed for the prevention of SSIs, the microsystem is …
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Chlorhexidine Gluconate Bathing in Hospitalized Patients: Reducing Barriers and Increasing Compliance Rate
… implementation of Chlorhexidine Gluconate (CHG) bathing protocol is one of many measures used to help reduce hospital-acquired infections (HAI) at the 30-bed, Medical-Surgical Specialties and Palliative Care Unit. CHG bathing compliance rate for the unit for the week of August 14-20 was …
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Characterizing the fate and transport of chemicals of emerging concern (CECs) from swine manure during waste to energy processes
… (HTL) and catalytic hydrothermal gasification (CHG), which were performed under 16 different conditions to study the effects of hydrothermal processes on the removal of bioactive CECs. Solid Phase Extraction (SPE) of estrogenic hormones and hydrolysis of florfenicol (FF) followed by GC/MS …
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Chalcogenide Glass on Layered van der Waals Crystals for Integrated Photonic Devices
… of vdW materials with chalcogenide glasses (ChG) has been developed for near and mid-infrared integrated photonic applications. This ChG-on-vdW platform enables new device architectures that can better utilize vdW material’s strong anisotropy and accelerates prototyping. In this work, we …
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Hydrothermal processes to recover energy and nutrients from liquid portion of swine manure
… original energy in the LPAM. On the other hand, CHG demonstrated a higher energy recovery of 149% under 600 degree C/60 min into the biogas product, and was able to remove 96% of the COD. CHG also had higher nitrogen recovery efficiency, and could possibly convert nitrogen gas into ammonia under …
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NMR characterization of chlorhexidine in lipid-based formulations /
A mixture of Chlorhexidine digluconate (CHG) with glycerophospholipid 1,2-dimyristoyl- <^54-glycero-3-phospocholine (DMPC-rf54) was analysed using ^H nuclear magnetic resonance. To analyze powder spectra, the de-Pake-ing technique was used. The method is able to extract simultaneously both the …
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Design and optimization of chalcogenide waveguides for supercontinuum generation
… based on Ge11.5As24Se64.5 chalcogenide (ChG) material. Rigorous numerical simulations were performed using finite-element and split-step Fourier methods in order to optimize the waveguides for wideband SC generation. Through dispersion engineering and by varying dimensions of the …
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Chalcogenide glass materials for integrated infrared photonics
Chalcogenide glasses (ChGs) are amorphous compounds containing the chalcogen elements (S, Se, Te) and exhibit wide infrared transparency windows. They are easy to synthesize in bulk and thin film forms and their compositional flexibility allows tuning of optical properties such as refractive index …
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Chalcogenide glasses for advanced photonic and photovoltaic applications
… with thermal evaporated As2Se3 thin film. ChG photonic devices including gratings, waveguides and resonators, can be fabricated using nanoimprint. This technique offers a convenient, high-throughput, and low-cost approach for patterning of sub-micron glass structures. We rationalized the …
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Integrated infrared sensor platform
… waveguide structure based on chalcogenide glass (ChG) is built and tested. The sensing limit for methane reaches 2.5 vol. %. Besides, a ChG based small-footprint plasmonic optical switch is designed to work as an optical router for integrated spectrometer applications with a small (167 nm long) …
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Mitigating urban heat island effects : An analysis of precinct ventilation performance and its impact on urban heat islands and outdoor thermal comfort
… gridiron (OMG) and compact high-rise gridiron (CHG) on extreme hot days. According to the relative wind velocity ratio (RWvR), the OMG precinct exhibited the best precinct ventilation performance, followed by OLG and then the CHG precinct. In the OLG and CHG precincts, the precinct ventilation …
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Understanding defects in germanium and silicon for optoelectronic energy conversion
… quantum dots (QD) into a chalcogenide glass (ChG) matrix via solution based processing in common solvents. Observation of photoluminescence (PL) comparable to QD/polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) films shows potential for this material to form the basis for low cost light sources which can be …
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The Placenta Methylome: Novel Insights into DNA Modifications in the Human Placenta
… precede bases other than guanine, in a CHH and CHG context (where H = A, C or T), and has been reported in embryonic stem cells, induced pluripotent cells, somatic cell nuclear transfer stem cells, oocytes, neurons and glia. However, the distribution and role of mCH in the placenta is currently …
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Implementing Ways to Reduce Catheter-associated Urinary Infections (CAUTIs)
… such as daily Chlorohexidine Gluconate (CHG) bathing for patients with Foley catheter. Besides, nurses’ adherence to policy and procedures for urinary catheter management including early removal of unnecessary Foley are reevaluated. This project aims to reduce CAUTI occurrence by 41% by …
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The role of Arabidopsis thaliana heterochromatin component H2A.W in meiotic recombination
… was not further increased in hta7 cmt3, where CHG DNA methylation and H3K9me2 are reduced, revealing an epistatic interaction between these epigenetic components. In the absence of all three H2A.W proteins, the elevation of recombination observed in hta7 was decreased and the organisation of …
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Hydrothermal gasification of human feces as an alternative means of waste mitigation and hydrogen production
… catalytic hydrothermal gasification (CHG). This specific type of gasification deals with utilizing the moisture in the feedstock as the primary gasification agent and sidesteps the energetically costly step of dewatering the feedstock. This portion of the study focuses on the usage of …
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A study of active sites on fibrillar alumina catalysts
… formed on the I'-sites. However, a radical ion CHg -A1 species was postulated to account for the intramolecular cis-trans rotation reaction, this species being found through reaction with a surface A1 Lewis acid site. Some minor complications seem to have made these findings somewhat less …
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Adsorbent-based algal cultivation system to facilitate integration of algal biofuel production with wastewater treatment
… / HTL / Catalytic Hydrothermal Gasification (CHG) and High rate pond / Extraction / Anaerobic digestion had biofuel production costs of $11.7/gal and $13.2/gal, respectively. Wastewater treatment credits and electricity credits were then estimated and included to calculate the minimum fuel …
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