Satellite data shows that the Bhagirathi-Hugli River’s riverbank has faced severe erosion during the last decades (1990 to 2020), with the middle stretch of the river being more prone to erosion. This huge sediment load derived from upstream er...
A careful reading of Bonnail et al. (2019)’s work points out some issues in the description of the Ganges River, e.g., describing it in a way that gives impression to the readers unfamiliar with the Indian rivers that it flows by the national c...
The Ganges River receives inputs from highly populated cities of India (New Delhi, Calcutta, among others) and a strong influence of anthropogenic activities until reaching the Bay of Bengal. It is a seasonal river with 80% of discharges occurring be...
1 January 2006
Im Wintersemester 2002/03 fand an der Universität Basel eine Ringvorlesung zum Thema Gewalt statt[...]
31 March 2020
Es ist reiner Zufall, dass Anton Hüglis «philosophische Meditation» über Karl Jaspers‘ Begriff der «Grenzsituation » zu einem Zeitpunkt erscheint, an dem jeder und jede Einzelne von uns durch die COVID-19-Pandemie erfährt [...]
Opiophobia contributes to oligoanalgesia in the emergency department (ED), but its definition varies, and its association to healthcare providers’ personality traits has been scantly explored. Our purpose was to study the different definitions of opi...
Aims. Frequent users of the emergency department (FUED; five ED visits or more per year) often have negative experiences in health care settings, potentially aggravating their health problems. Scarce research has explored FUED experiences in health c...
Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a common sleep disorder, and continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) is the most effective treatment. Poor adherence is one of the major challenges in CPAP therapy. The recent boom of wearable optical sensors measu...
12 November 2021
Aims: The hypothermia outcome prediction after extracorporeal life support (ECLS) score, or HOPE score, provides an estimate of the survival probability in hypothermic cardiac arrest patients undergoing ECLS rewarming. The aim of this study was to as...
Lower gastrointestinal bleeding (LGIB) is a frequent cause of emergency department (ED) consultation, leading to investigations but rarely to urgent therapeutic interventions. The SHA2PE score aims to predict the risk of hospital-based intervention,...
It is currently unknown whether thrombin generation is associated with venous thromboembolism (VTE) recurrence, major bleeding, or mortality in the elderly. Therefore, our aim was to prospectively study the association between thrombin generation and...
Background: Simultaneous pancreas and kidney transplantation (SPK) remains the only curative treatment for type I diabetics with end-stage kidney disease. SPK using donors after circulatory death (DCD) is one important measure to expand the organ poo...
Background: Despite great progress in graft survival and complication rates, pronounced inflammatory responses are common after pancreas transplantation (PT). Subsequent to the first postoperative increase in inflammatory markers, we have frequently...
31 March 2020
Wherever we are and as long as we are, we are in a situation: in a here and now, entangled in a spatially and temporally determined context of things and events. What face the situation shows depends on our goals and interests. We learn to deal with...
Syncope is a common symptom in emergency department visits and, despite extensive evaluation, still remains unexplained in a significant number of cases. Our study compared the clinical characteristics of patients with syncope of unexplained aetiolog...
Background: Nurse-initiated pain protocols (NIPPs) at emergency department (ED) triage remain underused. This study investigated factors associated with patient refusal and nurse use of NIPP, accounting for triage operational context. Methods: This r...
Conventional occupational safety training is often criticized for weak transfer of declarative knowledge into workplace behavior. Immersive virtual reality (iVR) has been proposed as a promising complement, yet comparisons of different iVR formats re...