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Common RTS considerations include functional capacity, movement quality during functional tasks, time from ACLR, and knee strength.
The survey revealed variability in the beliefs and practices of NZ physiotherapists regarding post-ACLR rehabilitation, and these beliefs and practices are at times inconsistent with best practice recommendations.
The survey revealed variability in the beliefs and practices of NZ physiotherapists regarding post-ACLR rehabilitation, and these beliefs and practices are at times inconsistent with best practice recommendations.Extracorporeal photopheresis (ECP), a personalized cellular immunotherapy, constitutes a promising treatment for steroid-refractory/-resistant graft-versus-host disease (SR-GvHD), with encouraging clinical response rates. To further investigate its mechanism of action, ECP's effects on T helper (Th) cells as well as on expression of immune checkpoint (PD-1 and Tim-3) and apoptotic (Fas receptor [FasR]) molecules were investigated in 27 patients with SR-GvHD. Our data show that GvHD patients had significantly higher levels of Th2, Th17, Th22 and granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF)-positive Th (ThG) cells and clearly lower levels of T follicular helper (Tfh) cells, including Th1- and Th2-like cells, compared with healthy donors. ECP therapy for GvHD was effective through the modulation of different Th subsets increases of Th22 (1.52-fold) and Tfh cells (1.48-fold) in acute GvHD (aGvHD) and increases of Th2-like Tfh cells (1.74-fold) in chronic GvHD (cGvHD) patients were associated with clinical response. Expression of FasR was further upregulated in CD4+CD8+ T cells. Additionally, Tim-3-expressing effector T cells associated with the severity of GvHD were reduced. Taken together, these data show that ECP therapy exerts immunomodulatory effects by promoting a balanced immune reconstitution and inducing immune tolerance. Therefore it represents an attractive option for the treatment of GvHD.Immune effector cell (IEC) therapies have revolutionized our approach to relapsed B-cell malignancies, and interest in the investigational use of IECs is rapidly expanding into other diseases. Current challenges in the analysis of IEC therapies include small sample sizes, limited access to clinical trials and a paucity of predictive biomarkers of efficacy and toxicity associated with IEC therapies. Retrospective and prospective multi-center cell therapy trials can assist in overcoming these barriers through harmonization of clinical endpoints and correlative assays for immune monitoring, allowing additional cross-trial analysis to identify biomarkers of failure and success. The Consortium for Pediatric Cellular Immunotherapy (CPCI) offers a unique platform to address the aforementioned challenges by delivering cutting-edge cell and gene therapies for children through multi-center clinical trials. Here the authors discuss some of the important pre-analytic variables, such as biospecimen collection and initial processing procedures, that affect biomarker assays commonly used in IEC trials across participating CPCI sites. The authors review the recent literature and provide data to support recommendations for alignment and standardization of practices that can affect flow cytometry assays measuring immune effector function as well as interpretation of cytokine/chemokine data. The authors also identify critical gaps that often make parallel comparisons between trials difficult or impossible.Racism- a system operating at the intrapersonal, interpersonal, institutional, and structural levels- is a serious threat to the health and wellbeing of children and adolescents. This narrative review highlights racism as a social determinant of health, and describes how racism breeds disparate pediatric health outcomes in infant health, asthma, Type 1 diabetes, mental health, and pediatric surgical conditions. Key examples include the association of residential racial segregation and the alarming infant mortality rate among Black infants as well as the role of redlining and discriminatory housing practices on asthma morbidity among Black children and adolescents. Furthermore, inequitable care practices such as (1) racial and ethnic disparities in insulin pump usage in patients with Type 1 diabetes, (2) lower rates pharmacotherapy initiation in racialized children with mental health disorders, and (3) decreased pain medication management and confirmatory imaging in Black children with acute appendicitis, highlight the role of interpersonal racism in propagating poor health outcomes. click here An urgent call to action is needed to address pediatric health inequities and ensure all children can live healthy lives. Key strategies must tackle racism at the individual, institutional, and structural levels and include building a diverse workforce, prioritizing research to describe the impact of racism on pediatric health outcomes, initiating improvement efforts to close equity gaps, building community partnerships, co-designing solutions alongside patients and families, and advocating for policy change to address the social conditions that impact children and adolescents of color.
Georgia's 2012 House Bill 954 (HB954) prohibiting abortions after 22weeks from last menstrual period (LMP) has been associated with a significant decrease in abortions after 22weeks. However, the policy's effects by race or ethnicity remain unexplored. We investigated whether changes in abortion numbers and ratios (per 1,000 live births) in Georgia after HB954 varied by race or ethnicity.
Using Georgia Department of Public Health induced terminations of pregnancy data from 2007 to 2017, we examined changes in number of abortions and abortion ratios (per 1,000 live births) by race and ethnicity following HB954 implementation.
After full implementation of HB954 in 2015, the number of abortions and abortion ratios at or after 22 weeks (from last menstrual period) decreased among White (b
=-261.83, p<.001; b
=-3.31, p<.001), Black (b
= -416.17, p<.001; b
=-8.84, p<.001), non-Hispanic (b
=-667.00, p=.001; b
=-5.82, p<.001), and Hispanic (b
=-56.25, p=.002; b
=-2.44, p=.002) people. However, the ratio of abortions before 22weeks increased for Black people (b
=44.06, p=.028) and remained stable for White (b
=-6.78, p=.433), Hispanic (b
=21.27, p=.212), and non-Hispanic people (b
=26.93, p=.172).
The full implementation of HB954 had differential effects by race/ethnicity and gestational age. Although abortion at 22weeks or more decreased for all groups, abortion at less than 22weeks increased among Black people. Additional research should elucidate the possible causes, consequences, and reactions to differential effects of abortion restrictions by race and ethnicity.
The full implementation of HB954 had differential effects by race/ethnicity and gestational age. Although abortion at 22 weeks or more decreased for all groups, abortion at less than 22 weeks increased among Black people. Additional research should elucidate the possible causes, consequences, and reactions to differential effects of abortion restrictions by race and ethnicity.
Isolated tricuspid valve surgery is an uncommon operation. Historical reports, including a previous review from our unit, demonstrated high morbidity and mortality associated with this operation. Many of these patients had severely impaired right ventricular function at the time of the surgery. Since our previous review, we have actively encouraged our local cardiologists to refer patients with severe isolated tricuspid disease for surgery before right ventricular remodelling occurs. This present study was performed to assess our current results.
A prospectively-maintained hospital database was used to identify all adult non-congenital patients receiving standalone tricuspid valve repair or replacement at New Zealand's largest cardiothoracic surgical unit from July 2011 to July 2019. Additional demographic and clinical data were collected by review of patient electronic records.
During the 8-year study period, a total of 50 patients underwent isolated tricuspid valve surgery. Most patients were operated on for functional (40%) or rheumatic (30%) tricuspid disease. The majority of patients underwent surgery when the right ventricular function preoperatively was normal (30%) or mildly/moderately impaired (60%). Over half the patient sample (56%) underwent valve replacement. The 30-day mortality rate and stroke rate were 6% and 2% respectively. The medium-term survival was 80% at 4 years mean follow-up.
Isolated tricuspid surgery is no longer a high mortality operation when it is performed on patients who have preserved right ventricular function.
Isolated tricuspid surgery is no longer a high mortality operation when it is performed on patients who have preserved right ventricular function.
The aim of this study was to develop an evidence-based paediatric early warning system for infants and children that takes into consideration a variety of paediatric healthcare contexts and addresses barriers to escalation of care.
A three-stage intervention development framework consisted ofStage 1 evidence review, benchmarking, stakeholder (health professionals, decision-makers, and health consumers) engagement, and consultation; Stage 2 planning and coproduction by the researchers and stakeholders using action research cycles; and Stage 3 prototyping and testing.
A prototype evidence-based system incorporated human factor principles, used a structured approach to patient assessment, promoted situational awareness, and included family as well as clinician concern. Family involvement in detecting changes in their child's condition was supported by posters and flyers codesigned with health consumers. Five age-specific observation and response charts included 10 weighted variables and one unweighted variable (temperature) to convey a composite early warning score. The escalation pathway was supported by a targeted communication framework (iSoBAR NOW).
The development process resulted in an agreed uniform ESCALATION system incorporating a whole-system approach to promote critical thinking, situational awareness for the early recognition of paediatric clinical deterioration as well as timely and effective escalation of care. Incorporating family involvement was a novel component of the system.
The development process resulted in an agreed uniform ESCALATION system incorporating a whole-system approach to promote critical thinking, situational awareness for the early recognition of paediatric clinical deterioration as well as timely and effective escalation of care. Incorporating family involvement was a novel component of the system.
The objective of this study was to describe the documented neurological assessment and investigations for neuroprognosticationin patients after cardiac arrest.
This was a retrospective cohort study of adult patients after cardiac arrest, admitted to a tertiary intensive care unit (ICU), between January 2009 and December 2018.
The main outcome measures were the proportion of patients with a documented Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) scoreand investigations for neuroprognostication.
Four hundred twenty-seven patients formed the study cohort. The GCS score was documented for 267 (63%) patients at some time during their ICU stay. The proportion of patients with the GCS score documenteddecreased each day of ICU stay (59% at day 1, 20% at day 5). Pupil reflex to light was recorded in 352 (82%), corneal reflex in 155 (36%), and limb reflexes in 216 (51%) patients. link2 Twenty-eight (6.6%) patients underwent brain magnetic resonance imaging, 10 (2.3%) an electroencephalogram, and two somatosensory evoked potentials. link3 Withdrawal of life-sustaining treatments occurred in 166 (39%) patients, and 221 (52%) patients died in hospital.
