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This study aimed to • Address the lack of information surrounding patient preference within radiotherapy skin care. Eliglustat purchase • Identify if prophylactic skin care is the preferred approach of patients and staff. • Establish if patients and staff are accepting of the use of a type of barrier film, such as 3M™ Cavilon™ No Sting Barrier Film.

Twelve patients undergoing standard whole breast radiotherapy and four staff members who were based mainly on a breast-specific treatment unit were interviewed using semi-structured techniques. The interview transcripts were coded for areas of interest and a thematic map generated using the qualitative data analysis software (NVivo V12, QSR International).

One Hundred percent of patients (n=12) would have preferred a proactive approach to skin care management over the reactive one currently implemented. Staff were also in favour of a proactive approach to skin care with 100% (n=4) supportive of a trial into the film's effectiveness. Three key themes were identified • Theme 1 Patient Ownership of Own care - all patients identified they preferred a prophylactic approach and that more specific skin care guidance from healthcare professionals would be beneficial. • Theme 2 Product Practicality - 93% of patients and 100% of staff accepted the product and would be open to the use of it clinically. • Theme 3 Staff Acknowledgement of Skin Care - all staff identified a patient group in need of prophylaxis and that Cavilon No Sting may be a product of interest.

Patients and staff were in support of prophylactic skin care, both approved of the proposed product. However, there is a significant lack of clinical evidence to support the use of any topical products within radiotherapy skincare due to the lack of high-quality studies.

Changes to skin care practice could be considered due to patient preference in favour of proactive management.

Changes to skin care practice could be considered due to patient preference in favour of proactive management.Systemic sclerosis is an autoimmune disease that prominently leads to skin and tissue fibrosis. The efficacy of autologous stem cell transplantation not only attests to the autoimmune pathophysiology for systemic sclerosis, but also for interstitial lung disease as its most frequent manifestation of fatal organ involvement. Accordingly, a variety of immunomodulatory therapies were tried on patients with systemic sclerosis-interstitial lung disease. Until very recently, all of these therapeutic approaches constituted off-label treatment for systemic sclerosis, given that neither of these therapies was approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) or the European Medicines Agency. For tocilizumab, this has now changed with FDA approval in March 2021. Already 2020, nintedanib, which is an antifibrotic drug that does not target autoimmunity, became the first approved drug for interstitial lung disease in systemic sclerosis. The present review analyzes the evidence for immunomodulatory treatment of systemic sclerosis-associated interstitial lung disease. The review focuses on randomized controlled trials, which provides evidence for the effects of drugs such as cyclophosphamide, mycophenolate, rituximab and tocilizumab.

To evaluate the evidence of analgesic efficacy of tramadol for the management of postoperative pain and the presence of associated adverse events in dogs.

A comprehensive search using PubMed/MEDLINE, LILACS, Google Scholar and CAB databases with no restrictions on language and following a prespecified protocol was performed from June 2019 to July 2020. Included were randomized controlled trials (RCTs) performed in dogs that had undergone general anesthesia for any type of surgery. Two authors independently classified the studies, extracted data and assessed their risk of bias using Cochrane's tool. RevMan and GRADE methods were used to rate the certainty of evidence (CoE).

Overall 26 RCTs involving 848 dogs were included. Tramadol administration probably results in a lower need for rescue analgesia versus no treatment or placebo [moderate CoE; relative risk (RR) 0.47; 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.26-0.85; I

= 0%], and may result in a lower need for rescue analgesia versus buprenorphine (low CoE; RR 0) 0.26-0.85; I2 = 0%], and may result in a lower need for rescue analgesia versus buprenorphine (low CoE; RR 0.50; 95% CI 0.20-1.24), codeine (low CoE; RR 0.75; 95% CI 0.16-3.41) and nalbuphine (low CoE; RR 0.05; 95% CI 0.00-0.72). However, tramadol administration may result in an increased requirement for rescue analgesia versus methadone (low CoE; RR 3.45; 95% CI 0.66-18.08; I2 = 43%) and COX inhibitors (low CoE; RR 2.27; 95% CI 0.68-7.60; I2 = 45%). Compared with multimodal therapy, tramadol administration may make minimal to no difference in the requirement for rescue analgesia (low CoE; RR 1.12; 95% CI 0.48-2.60; I2 = 0%). Adverse events were inconsistently reported and the CoE was very low. The overall CoE of the analgesic efficacy of tramadol for postoperative pain management in dogs was low or very low, and the main reasons for downgrading the evidence were risk of bias and imprecision.

To describe the sonoanatomy of the abdominal wall in live cats and to compare the distribution pattern of two versus three ultrasound-guided transversus abdominis plane (TAP) injections using clinically applicable volumes of lidocaine-dye solution in cat cadavers.

Prospective anatomical study.

A total of eight client-owned healthy cats and eight cat cadavers.

Ultrasound anatomy of the abdominal wall, landmarks and sites for needle access were determined in live cats. Ultrasound-guided TAP injections were performed in eight thawed cat cadavers. Volumes of 0.25 or 0.16 mL kg

per point of a lidocaine-dye solution were injected using either two [subcostal and preiliac (SP)] or three [subcostal, retrocostal and preiliac (SRP)] injection points, respectively. Each cadaver was then dissected to determine the injectate distribution and the number of thoracolumbar nerves stained with each approach. The target nerves were defined as the ventromedial branches of the thoracic nerves 10 (T10), T11, T12, T13 and lumbar nerves 1 (L1) and L2.