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OBJECTIVE The aims of this study were to describe firearm storage practices in homes of patients evaluated for mental health (MH) complaints at a tertiary care children's hospital and to describe storage practice changes after treatment. METHODS We surveyed families of children with MH complaints presenting to the emergency department or psychiatry unit who stored firearms in their homes between February 12, 2016, and January 14, 2017. Patients and families received standard care, including routine counseling on limiting access to methods of suicide. Participants completed surveys at baseline, 7, and 30 days after discharge. The primary outcome was triple safe firearm storage-storage of firearms unloaded, locked, and with ammunition stored and locked separately. RESULTS Ninety-one household members of MH patients who stated they had firearms were enrolled at baseline. Seventy-seven (85%) completed at least 1 follow-up survey, and 63 (69%) completed both. At baseline, 21% (19/91) of participants reported engaging in triple safe firearm storage, 26% had an unlocked firearm, 23% had a loaded firearm, and 65% stored ammunition either unlocked or with their firearm. Triple safe storage rates increased to 31% at both 7 days and 30 days. Ten (17%) of 59 (P less then 0.01) participants who did not report triple safe storage at baseline and completed a follow-up survey changed to reporting triple safe storage on follow-up. CONCLUSIONS The majority of firearm-storing family members of children with MH complaints do not follow triple safe storage practices. Storage practices modestly improved after an emergent MH visit, but over two thirds of participants reported unsecured or partially secured firearms 7 and 30 days later.Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) affects more than 1% of children in the United States, with the rate of new diagnoses climbing significantly in the last 15 years. Emergent conditions and subsequent visits to the emergency department (ED) can be particularly challenging for children with ASD, most of whom also have comorbidities in addition to their deficits in social communication and interaction. In the emergency setting, these conditions can cause a range of behaviors that result in challenges for health care providers and may result in suboptimal experiences for children with ASD and their families. We present the ED course of 3 children with ASD to illustrate these challenges, emphasize successful strategies, and highlight opportunities for improvement.Time to hemorrhage control is critical, as mortality in patients with severe hemorrhage that arrive to trauma centers with sign of life remains over 40%. Prompt identification and management of severe hemorrhage is paramount to reducing mortality. In traditional US trauma systems, the early hospital course of a severely hemorrhaging patient typically proceeds from the trauma resuscitation bay to the operating room or angiography suite with a potential stop for radiological imaging. This protracted journey can prove fatal as it consumes valuable minutes. In contrast to the current US system is a newly developed and increasingly adopted system in Japan called the hybrid emergency room system (HERS). The hybrid ER is equipped to allow resuscitation, imaging, and damage control intervention to occur in the ER without the need to transport the patient to a subsequent destination. The HERS is relatively new and remains restricted to a small number of institutions, limiting the ability to robustly examine impact(s) on patient outcomes. Even if proven to yield superior outcomes, there are significant obstacles to adopting the HERS in the US. Delanzomib ic50 Challenges such as the high cost of building and implementing a HER system, return on investment, and the significant differences between the US and Japan in terms of physician training, trauma center, and reimbursement schemes may render the hybrid ER system to be unfeasible in most current trauma centers. Barriers aside, the Japanese hybrid ER system remains the most novel recent advancement in the quest to reduce potentially preventable mortality from hemorrhage.The purpose of this study was to reveal possible consequences of long-bone fracture on cardiac tissue and to analyze the role of systemically elevated danger associated molecular patterns, complement anaphylatoxins and cytokines. Blood samples of mice, pigs, and humans after a fracture were analyzed by ELISAs for complement component 5a (C5a), tumor necrosis factor (TNF) and extracellular histones. In vivo results were completed by in vitro experiments with human cardiomyocytes treated with TNF and extracellular histones. The influence of histones and human plasma after fracture on isolated human polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMNs) was investigated. An elevation of TNF, C5a and extracellular histones after long bone fracture was measured. Moreover, the appearance of systemic troponin I levels was observed and structural changes in connexin 43 and desmin were detected. Further, the presence of TNF lead to elevation of reactive oxygen species, troponin I release and histone appearance in supernatant of human cardiomyocytes. Incubation of human PMNs with histones and plasma of patients after fracture lead to formation of neutrophil extracellular traps. Present results suggest that structural alterations in the heart might be consequences of the complement activation, the release of extracellular histones and the systemic TNF elevation in the context of a long bone fracture.BACKGROUND Management of hemorrhagic shock is well codified by international guidelines. These guidelines are predominantly based on trauma patients. We aimed to evaluate factors associated with 30-day mortality and long-term survival after intraoperative hemorrhagic shock during major oncological surgery. METHODS This retrospective study was conducted in a cancer referral center from January 2013 to February 2018. All adult cancer patients admitted in the operative room for scheduled or emergency oncological surgery associated with an intraoperative hemorrhagic shock were included. RESULTS Eighty-four patients were included in this study. The 30-day mortality rate was 26% (n = 22), the mean follow-up from the time of ICU admission was 20 months (95% CI, 15-25 months), 39(46%) patients died during this period. Using logistic regression for multivariate analysis, factors independently associated with 30-day mortality were SAPS II score (Odds Ratio (OR) =1.056, 95% Confident Interval (CI) =1.010-1.1041), delta SOFA (SOFA score at day 3 - SOFA score at day 1) (OR= 1.