Young people experiencing the transition from care often are weighed down by their past, both through their early experiences, but also by the way their past is made relevant in encounters with others. The aim of this article is two-fold. Firstly, to present a critical discursive analysis of young people's accounts of themselves in the transition from care. Secondly, to shed light on three different ways of making the
Objectve: Relationships between platelet reactivity and atrial fibrillation (AF) have not been investigated before. Thus, platelet reactions after stimulation were compared with the presence of sinus rhythm (SR) after a surveillance period exceeding two years after elective electrical cardioversion.Merthods: 33 individuals with non-valvular AF subject to elective electrical cardioversion were consented. Immediately before cardioversion determination of markers (see below) reflecting platelet reactivity was carried out. After an average of 26±8(SD) months an ECG was analyzed and platelet laboratory analysis were repeated.A flow cytometry technique was used to determine platelet reactivity i.e. surface bound fibrinogen after stimulation. ADP (1.7 and 8.5 mol/L) and a thrombin receptor activating peptide (TRAP-6) (54 and 74 mol/L) were used as platelet agonists.
Results:As the study was brought to an end subjects with AF (n=18) had a trend towards lower platelet reactivity. Compared with day 1 it reached statistical significance (p=0,016) when using 1.7 mol/L ADP to activate platelets. Responses towards the other agonists did not change significantly over time. In contrast, after 26±8(SD) months subjects with SR (n=15) had significant lower platelet reactivity when stimulating with both agonists pairs. The p-values for the two ADP dilutions (1.7 and 8.5 mol/L) were p=0.002 and p=0.031, respectively. The corresponding figures for TRAP-6 (54 and 74 mol/L) proved to be p=0.042 and p=0.006.
Conclusion:After 26±8(SD) months patients returning to AF had higher platelet reactivity than those who remained in SR. The finding provides a link between arrhythmia and clot formation.3
The council meetings in prisons is an old and well-established institution in Norway, where employees considering inmate applications for leave of absence, transfer to lower security and release on probation of 2/3 part time. The council members are bound by legislation, regulations and guidelines, but they also manage prison professional judgment.In the article we ask what kind of knowledge about local progression, progression and reversal practices, practices that can be produced, by reading councils inspired by a Deleuzian view? Based on critical ethnography, we have studied the council meetingson the basis of a Deleuze discussion about what a body can do. The article shows how council members, through what is done and said, moves the prisoner application forward to a vote that either endorses or discourages the application. The article clarifies council participants’ categorizations of inmates and shows how time and trust are woven intolocal progression- and reversal practices. Further on, how meaningful categories, such as trust, time and the process of becoming, in various ways, are woven into local progression- and reversal practices. Dilemmas council members are facing are highlighted, and the article raises questions relating to the council meeting’s safeguarding of the inmatesright to predictability and equal treatment.
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