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racteristics and has an acceptable accuracy to predict lung recruitment.
Hysteresis of the respiratory system computed by low-flow pressure-volume curve is related to the anatomical lung characteristics and has an acceptable accuracy to predict lung recruitment.
Electrical muscle stimulation is widely used to enhance lower limb mobilization. Although upper limb muscle atrophy is common in critically ill patients, electrical muscle stimulation application for the upper limbs has been rarely reported. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether electrical muscle stimulation prevents upper and lower limb muscle atrophy and improves physical function.
Randomized controlled trial.
Two-center, mixed medical/surgical ICU.
Adult patients who were expected to be mechanically ventilated for greater than 48 hours and stay in the ICU for greater than 5 days.
Forty-two patients were randomly assigned to the electrical muscle stimulation (n = 17) or control group (n = 19).
Primary outcomes were change in muscle thickness and cross-sectional area of the biceps brachii and rectus femoris from day 1 to 5. Secondary outcomes included occurrence of ICU-acquired weakness, ICU mobility scale, length of hospitalization, and amino acid levels. The change in biceps brac atrophy and attenuated proteolysis and decreased the length of hospitalization.
Patients in an ICU are particularly vulnerable to sepsis. It is therefore important to detect its onset as early as possible. This study focuses on the development and validation of a new signature-based regression model, augmented with a particular choice of the handcrafted features, to identify a patient's risk of sepsis based on physiologic data streams. The model makes a positive or negative prediction of sepsis for every time interval since admission to the ICU.
The data were sourced from the PhysioNet/Computing in Cardiology Challenge 2019 on the "Early Prediction of Sepsis from Clinical Data." It consisted of ICU patient data from three separate hospital systems. Algorithms were scored against a specially designed utility function that rewards early predictions in the most clinically relevant region around sepsis onset and penalizes late predictions and false positives.
The work was completed as part of the PhysioNet 2019 Challenge alongside 104 other teams.
PhysioNet sourced over 60,000 ICU patients with up to 40 clinical variables for each hour of a patient's ICU stay. The Sepsis-3 criteria was used to define the onset of sepsis.
None.
The algorithm yielded a utility function score which was the first placed entry in the official phase of the challenge.
The algorithm yielded a utility function score which was the first placed entry in the official phase of the challenge.
Therapeutic mammaplasty is a well-established advanced oncoplastic technique for larger tumors in large breasts. However, the larger the breasts are, the greater is the lower outer parenchymal displacement due to weight resulting in relative emptiness in the medial/cleavage part. Therefore, the default practice of excising the medial wing parenchymal component of Wise pattern (WP) incision may either maintain or worsen such anatomy.
We present a technical innovation to improve the standard WP technique instead of excision, the medial wing of the WP incision is deepithelized, and parenchyma is preserved to retain or augment bulk.
Between July 2015 and December 2018, a total of 16 patients (26 breasts) underwent a medial hemi-mastopexy. This technique seems to be safe, with minimal complications even after radiotherapy.
Although its use is limited in lower inner quadrant tumors, "medial hemi-mastopexy" can be safely applied to cancers located in all the other quadrants and potentially in the cosmetic setting as well. This case series is limited by the small numbers and short follow-up; however, the data show promising results.
Although its use is limited in lower inner quadrant tumors, "medial hemi-mastopexy" can be safely applied to cancers located in all the other quadrants and potentially in the cosmetic setting as well. This case series is limited by the small numbers and short follow-up; however, the data show promising results.
Promoting patient satisfaction is crucial for healthcare quality improvement. However, literature on patient satisfaction with nursing care in Ghana is limited. TNG260 research buy The aim of this study was to assess patient satisfaction with perioperative nursing care in Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, the largest tertiary hospital in Ghana.
The study was a cross-sectional study. A sample of one hundred (
=100) in-patients in the surgical department were interviewed. Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS), version 22, was used to analyze the data. The results were presented using univariate, bivariate and multivariate analyses.
It was found that majority of the respondents were males (53%), employed (56%) and insured (85%). It was also found that eight in ten respondents were satisfied with the perioperative nursing care. Overall patient satisfaction with perioperative nursing care was significantly associated with information provision (
<0.001), nurse-patient relationship (
<0.001), fear and concern (
<0.05) and discomfort and need (
<0.05). At the multivariate level, overall patient satisfaction was significantly influenced by nurse-patient relationship (
=0.430,
=0.002).
There is limited literature on nursing care in surgical departments and rarely are patients' views considered in assessing quality of perioperative care, especially in Low- and Middle- Income Countries (LMICs). This study is a modest contribution to the literature on patient satisfaction with perioperative nursing care in Ghana.
There is limited literature on nursing care in surgical departments and rarely are patients' views considered in assessing quality of perioperative care, especially in Low- and Middle- Income Countries (LMICs). This study is a modest contribution to the literature on patient satisfaction with perioperative nursing care in Ghana.
To study the survival rate of patients without biochemical recurrence according to the Stuttgart and Phoenix criteria in terms of their correlation with four different PSA nadir values as predictors of clinical recurrence in patients with localized prostate cancer who underwent total HIFU prostate ablation.
The object of the study was patients with morphologically proven localized RP by biopsy results, who were treated with prostate cancer by HIFU ablation on the Ablatherm Integrated Imaging apparatus (EDAP TMS, France). The study included 658 patients in whom HIFU ablation was used as primary treatment of localized prostate cancer (stages T1 - T2) without previous use of other methods (hormonal, radiation therapy) For the analysis, a continuous sample of patients was selected, which were divided into four groups depending on the PSA nadir level less or equal 0.2 ng / ml (1 group), 0.21-0.5 ng / ml (group 2), 0.51-1 ng / ml (group 3) and> 1 ng / ml (group 4). sensitivity, specificity, predictive value,nical practice.
This study confirms that PSA nadir after HIFU ablation predicts biochemical recurrence-free survival and is a reliable marker that is easy to integrate into routine clinical practice.Urinary cytology (UC) is one of the primary diagnostic modalities used for the screening and surveillance of urothelial carcinoma. Despite its widespread use, UC has suffered from a lack of standardized or reproducible criteria and wide interobserver variability, particularly of the designation of atypical urothelial cells. The Paris System for Reporting Urinary Cytology (TPS), published in 2016, aimed to provide a standardized approach for evaluating UC by creating diagnostic categories with specific cytomorphologic criteria. Recent studies have primarily investigated the application of TPS on lower urinary tract specimens and have mostly shown that TPS implementation has improved the performance of UC specimens. Only a few studies have reported the impact of TPS on upper urinary tract (UUT) cytology. Additionally, there is uncertainty as to which cytological features are most predictive of high-grade urothelial carcinoma (HGUC) in the UUT. This review summarizes the literature regarding the utility and performance of UUT cytology and highlights findings before and after the implementation of TPS.The fundamental mechanism of biochemistry lies on the reaction kinetics, which is determined by the reaction pathways. Interestingly, the reaction pathway is a challenging concept for undergraduate students. Experimentally, it is difficult to observe, and theoretically, it requires some degree of physics knowledge, namely statistical and quantum mechanics. However, students can utilize computational methods to study the reaction kinetics without paying too much attention but not wholly neglecting the comprehension of physics. We hereby provided an approach to study the reaction kinetics based on density-functional calculations. We particularized the study of the isomerization case involving five molecules at three different temperatures and emphasized the importance of the transition state in the study of reaction kinetics. The results we presented were in good agreement with the experiments and provided useful insights to assist students in the application of their knowledge into their research.
Predischarge capillary blood gas partial pressure of carbon dioxide (pCO
) has been associated with increased adverse events including readmission. This study aimed to determine if predischarge pCO
or 36-week pCO
was associated with increased respiratory readmissions or other pulmonary healthcare utilization in the year after neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) discharge for infants with bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) discharged with home oxygen, using a standardized outpatient oxygen weaning protocol.
This was a secondary cohort analysis of infants born<32 weeks gestational age with BPD, referred to our clinic for home oxygen therapy from either from our level IV NICU or local level III NICUs between 2015 and 2017. Infants with major nonrespiratory comorbidities were excluded. Subject information was obtained from electronic health records.
Of 125 infants, 120 had complete 1-year follow-up. Twenty-three percent of infants experienced a respiratory readmission after NICU discharge. There was to families.
Several studies have assessed safety and efficacy outcomes for lumacaftor/ivacaftor therapy. We report on lumacaftor/ivacaftor's impact on lung function, physical performance, and health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in a subpopulation of Danish people with Cystic Fibrosis (CF; PWCF) with advanced pulmonary disease who would not fulfill inclusion criteria for these studies.
This follow-up study examined lumacaftor/ivacaftor's effect in a highly selected CF population. Inclusion criteria included low percent predicted forced expiratory volume in one second (ppFEV
), fast deteriorating ppFEV
, low body mass index (BMI), and difficult-to-treat infections. Primary endpoints included change in ppFEV
slope, cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET), and all domains of the Cystic Fibrosis Questionnaire-Revised (CFQ-R). Secondary outcomes included change in ppFEV
, BMI Z-score, and sweat chloride concentration.
A total of 21 patients homozygous for the F508del mutation and a median ppFEV
of 38.7 were included.
