Abstract: A catheter probe flow meter and method of determining the volume flow of a fluid through a conduit, at least one of the fluid and the conduit having energy-scattering interfaces. The method in one embodiment includes transmitting at least two and receiving at least one or transmitting at least one and receiving at least two sound beams through the fluid, resolving the Doppler vectors into an average velocity vector for each transmitting/receiving combination, and resolving the resolved velocity vectors into their component parts.

Abstract: In the coating of rubber surfaces with adherent slip coatings the need for release agents is avoided by selecting as the slip coating a synthetic polymer latex composition consisting essentially of about 5 to 95% by weight of a film-forming, non-elastomeric synthetic polymer component (1) having an elongation of at least about 200% and about 5 to 95% of a normally solid, non-elastomeric, synthetic polymer component (2) exhibiting an elongation of below about 20% and a coefficient of friction of up to about 0.20, said slip coating having an elongation of at least about 200 up to 700%, a coefficient of friction of up to about 0.25 and a thickness of below about 0.005 inch.

Abstract: An article comprising a rubber surface provided with an adherent slip coating of a synthetic polymer latex composition consisting essentially of about 5 to 95% by weight of a film-forming, non-elastomeric synthetic polymer component (1) having an elongation of at least about 200% and about 5 to 95% of a normally solid, non-elastomeric, synthetic polymer component (2) exhibiting an elongation of below about 20% and a coefficient of friction of up to about 0.20, said slip coating having an elongation of at least about 200 up to 700%, a coefficient of friction of up to about 0.25 and a thickness of below about 0.005 inch.

Abstract: Rubber articles, such as surgeon's gloves, are provided with a synthetic resin slip coating by contacting the rubber surface with a synthetic resin latex composition. The slip coating is adherent to the rubber substrate and is very extensible without adverse effect. The synthetic resin slip coating includes from 5 to 90 percent by weight of a first resin copolymer component selected from the group consisting of vinyl chloride-alkyl acrylate copolymer, vinylidene chloride-alkyl acrylate copolymer, and vinyl acetate-alkyl acrylate copolymer, and correspondingly, from 95 to 10 percent by weight of a second resin copolymer component selected from the group consisting of vinyl chloride-vinyl ester copolymer, and vinylidene chloride-vinyl ester copolymer.

Abstract: In the delayed antibiotic treatment of contaminated open wounds by the administration of an antibiotic, the improvement comprising applying to the surface of the said wound, as an adjunct to said antibiotic treatment, a proteolytic enzyme in amounts sufficient to potentiate the activity of said antibiotic.

Abstract: Hydrolyzable film- and fiber-forming polymers having a plurality of repeating units of the formula: ##STR1## wherein R is lower alkyl, aryl, alkaryl and aralkyl; R.sub.1, R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 are each selected from H or lower alkyl with the proviso that at least one of R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3 is H; and n is an integer of 0 to 2.