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The Glass Menagerie
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The Glass Menagerie
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Otterbein Towers Fall 2025
No full textAround the \u27Bein; Innovative Funds; Committed to Career and Community; Faculty Excellence and Innovation; Two Years of Education for the Common Good; Homecoming and Family Weekend; Philanthropy; Alumni Matters; Class Notes.https://digitalcommons.otterbein.edu/towers/1284/thumbnail.jp
The Trojan Women
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2025 Spring Quiz & Quill Magazine
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Winter 2025 Otterbein Connections Newsletter
Full text linkIn this issue: Plan for Your Future With Otterbein University\u27s Office of Development The Importance of Recurring Gifts at Otterbein by Jordan Helphrey Otterbein\u27s Student Engagement Programs by Carley King \u2722 Soaring Higher Together: A Cardinal\u27s Journey in Student Engagement by Jennatta M. \u2725 Otterbein Student Alumni Board by Madi K. \u2725 Cardinal Conversations: Fostering Connections by Shannah Paddock 55th Reunion for the Class of 1969 by Stephanie Clark New Ways to Support Otterbein\u27s Annual Fund by Carley King \u2722https://digitalcommons.otterbein.edu/connections/1006/thumbnail.jp
Kate 2025: Trans*cendence
Full text linkEach year, kate seeks to: explore ideas about normative gender, sex, and sexuality work against oppression and hierarchies of power in any and all forms serve as a voice for race and gender equity as well as queer positivity encourage the silent to speak and feel less afraid build a zine and community that we care about and trusthttps://digitalcommons.otterbein.edu/kate/1009/thumbnail.jp
A Multicomponent Quality Improvement Initiative for the Early Identification, Prevention, and Management of Delirium in the Medical-Surgical Setting
Full text linkHospital-acquired delirium affects older adult patients, across the healthcare continuum. The incidence in frail older adults is high, costly, and often deemed preventable. Hospital-acquired delirium is associated with a multitude of short- and long-term complications, resulting in an increased rate of morbidity and mortality. The challenges of early recognition and management are prevalent in healthcare literature. While published guidelines exist, hospital systems continue to struggle with the standardization of geriatric delirium care. Given medical-surgical nursing is the cornerstone of hospital care, it is imperative to establish a standardized delirium prevention and management guideline, at this level of care, to optimize geriatric outcomes. This final scholarly project proposes a quality improvement initiative aimed at establishing an evidence-based approach to inpatient delirium care, utilizing the PDSA model as a structured method for change management. Predicted results include improved awareness of delirium risk, decreased rates of delirium incidence, shorter duration of delirium symptoms, and decreased rates of associated complications. The implications of project implementation include the application of evidence-based inpatient delirium care, as well as improved health outcomes in the geriatric population
Guideline Development and Implementation for Non-Intubated Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery
Full text linkSince the 1990s, video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) has become the standard for many thoracic operations, providing a minimally invasive approach. Traditional VATS management with general anesthesia (GA), muscle relaxation, and one-lung ventilation (OLV) poses risks of postoperative pulmonary complications (PPCs) that can lead to a prolonged length of hospital stay (LOS). Recently, non-intubated VATS (NI-VATS) has become popular due to fewer anesthesia-related complications and faster recovery, especially for patients with compromised respiratory function who may not tolerate GA or intubation. NI-VATS combines regional anesthesia with spontaneous non-invasive ventilation mechanisms, avoiding GA, intubation, and OLV complications. Studies show NI-VATS leads to reduced LOS and PPC development while providing a safety profile comparable to traditional VATS. The growing popularity of NI-VATS warrants the development of evidence-based guidelines for optimal patient selection, perioperative interventions, and complication management. This theoretical scholarly project aims to provide evidence-based guidelines for anesthetic management for NI-VATS procedures to address the above mentioned concerns. Preparation for guideline implementation will include project approval and staff education for the anticipated changes. Trial guideline implementation will take approximately 10 months, or until 50 NI-VATS cases are completed. Project members will compare pre- and post-implementation data of target outcomes to determine guideline effectiveness.
Keywords: video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery, one-lung ventilation, length of stay, postoperative pulmonary complications, non-intubated video-assisted thoracoscopic surger
Analysis of Psychoactive Compounds in the Web-building behavior of Mangora maculata
Full text linkThe arachnid central nervous system (CNS) functions in an analogous way to the human CNS, despite spiders not having a central brain. Previous studies on spider behavior and web formation have investigated the impacts of stimulants, depressants, sedatives, and hallucinogens, but the impacts of serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), such as fluoxetine are unknown. This study examined the impacts of caffeine, nicotine, ethanol, and fluoxetine on the web building behavior of Mangora maculata. Webs were characterized by 9 metrics: web entirety, size of web, radial angles, cell length, number of large holes, frequency of forking of spiral threads, radial angle consistency, cell length consistency, and consistency of cells between spiral 4 and 5. Spiders treated with stimulants spun webs that had low web entirety, small size, larger radial angles, and less overall consistency. Ethanol increased the number of large holes and the frequency of forking, while decreasing web entirety and average web size. Fluoxetine increased the web’s radial angle average and frequency of forking and yielded the most inconsistent webs. The observed impacts of drugs on web building point out two important implications. Since spiders have similar neural pathways and chemical receptors to humans, in the future spiders could be used as an animal model for human pharmaceutical research. In addition, since spiders are unable to build a complete web capable of capturing prey while impacted by psychoactive drugs, as pharmaceutical concentrations increase in the environment, it is important to monitor the web building and prey catching ability of spiders in nature to assure they are not negatively impacted