The Mediating Effects of Sleep Quality and Fatigue on Post-Intensive Care Syndrome Among Intensive Care Unit Survivors.

Aims: This study examines the impact of sleep quality in patients during the first week after transfer from the intensive care unit on post-intensive care syndrome, as well as the mediating role of fatigue levels.

Design: A cross-sectional design was employed in a hospital in southern Taiwan.

Methods: One hundred twenty-six intensive care unit survivors were included in the analysis.

A new feasible method for fibrinogen purification based on the affinity of Staphylococcus aureus clumping factor A to fibrinogen.

Plasma fibrinogen participates in several physiological and pathological events thus becoming a useful studying material in biomedical research. Here we report a new convenient method for fibrinogen purification based on the affinity of Staphylococcus aureus clumping factor A to fibrinogen. Clumping factor A (ClfA) is a cell wall-anchored surface protein of S.