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ning them of potential COVID-19 exposure when attending a RRC. However, the majority of HCW reported anxiety when attending these calls. Medical and efferent team HCW perceived greater anxiety compared to nursing and afferent team HCW. The Code-95 system to pre-warn rapid response teams may be a useful addition to protecting HCW from infectious diseases, although broader implementation will require greater resourcing, training and support.There have been marked improvements in the management of stroke in Australia over the past two decades. The greatest benefit has accrued from public health measures including reduced smoking rates and treatment of hypertension and hypercholesterolaemia. Recent advances in recanalisation therapy offer the chance of recovery to a subset of people who have a stroke. For many patients, stroke remains an illness with a devastating impact on their quality of life. Reducing the burden of stroke requires intervention across the health system from primary prevention through diagnosis, acute treatment, rehabilitation and secondary prevention. AZD6094 price In this review, we will cover the changes in the epidemiology of stroke, public health measures in primary prevention of stroke, and acute management and secondary prevention of ischaemic stroke and primary intracerebral haemorrhage.Frequent use of psychotropic medicines in people with dementia is a significant concern globally, doing this without informed consent is a violation of human rights, ethics and law. Capacity Australia piloted an intervention to address several hypothetical barriers to obtaining consent for psychotropic use in aged care and has developed a suite of resources to improve rights and health literacy for clinicians, patients and community alike.We report a series of five Australian cases of chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) occurring concurrently with chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML). Patient management including therapies and response together with clinical progress was obtained from medical records and laboratory information systems. Prior to CML diagnosis, all five had a preceding diagnosis of CLL. Three had received prior fludarabine. All received tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKI). None required subsequent therapy for CLL. One patient had 17p deletion CLL and another patient had normal CLL cytogenetics. All currently have satisfactory blood counts with quantitative polymerase chain reaction for CML showing molecular response. All remain alive. Thus, such cases can be successfully managed by treating each haematological disorder in the usual manner. The control achieved in CML with the TKI enables satisfactory marrow function to recover in patients with concomitant CLL. The role for allograft in patients with dual malignancies is uncertain and needs to be individualised depending on control of each malignancy.Healthcare systems across the world are challenged with problems of misdiagnosis, non-beneficial care, unwarranted practice variation and inefficient or unsafe practice. In countering these shortcomings, clinicians must be able to think critically, interpret and assimilate new knowledge, deal with uncertainty and change behaviour in response to compelling new evidence. Three critical thinking skills underpin effective care clinical reasoning, evidence-informed decision-making and systems thinking. It is important to define these skills explicitly, explain their rationales, describe methods of instruction and provide examples of optimal application. Educational methods for developing and refining these skills must be embedded within all levels of clinician training and continuing professional development.Familial defective apolipoprotein (apo) B (FDB) and familial hypercholesterolaemia (FH) are the two common genetic conditions that cause hypercholesterolaemia. R3531C mutation of the APOB gene is a rare cause of FDB. Individuals with both FDB and FH are rare. A 51-year-old man with hypercholesterolaemia (11.4 mmol/L) and his family were studied. Low-density lipoprotein (LDL) receptor (LDLR) and APOB genes were analysed by direct sequencing. LDL of four subjects were studied in a fibroblast LDL receptor-binding displacement assay. We found a mutation of the LDLR gene (p.Y398X) in the proband and in four other family members the p.R3531C APOB gene mutation was also found in the proband, his father and his children. The proband and his son were thus compound heterozygotes for both FH and FDB. Double heterozygotes did not show higher cholesterol levels compared to carriers of LDLR gene mutation alone. LDL from one of the carriers of the p.R3531C alone exhibited a binding ability, which was similar to a normal subject. This is the first report in Italy of the p.R3531C mutation, and our results show that this mutation has no effect in LDLR p.Y398X/APOB p.R3531C double heterozygotes.Macroalgae species are fast growing and their polysaccharides are already used as food ingredient due to their properties as hydrocolloids or they have potential high value bioactivity. The degradation of these valuable polysaccharides to access the sugar components has remained mostly unexplored so far. One reason is the high structural complexity of algal polysaccharides, but also the need for suitable enzyme cocktails to obtain oligo- and monosaccharides. Among them, there are several rare sugars with high value. Recently, considerable progress was made in the discovery of highly specific carbohydrate-active enzymes able to decompose complex marine carbohydrates such as carrageenan, laminarin, agar, porphyran and ulvan. This minireview summarizes these achievements and highlights potential applications of the now accessible abundant renewable resource of marine polysaccharides.Membrane depolarization activates the multisubunit CaV 1.2 L-type calcium channel initiating various excitation coupling responses. Intracellular trafficking into and out of the plasma membrane regulates the channel's surface expression and stability, and thus, the strength of CaV 1.2-mediated Ca2+ signals. The mechanisms regulating the residency time of the channel at the cell membrane are unclear. Here, we coexpressed the channel core complex CaV 1.2α1 pore-forming and auxiliary CaV β subunits and analyzed their trafficking dynamics from single-particle-tracking trajectories. Speed histograms obtained for each subunit were best fitted to a sum of diffusive and directed motion terms. The same mean speed for the highest-mobility state underlying directed motion was found for all subunits. The frequency of this component increased by covalent linkage of CaV β to CaV 1.2α1 suggesting that high-speed transport occurs in association with CaV β. Selective tracking of CaV 1.2α1 along the postendocytic pathway failed to show the highly mobile state, implying CaV β-independent retrograde transport.