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Intravenous Paracetamol Versus Patient-Controlled Analgesia With Morphine for the Pain Management Following Diagnostic Knee Arthroscopy in Trauma Patients: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

BACKGROUND: Most patients undergoing outpatient surgeries have the unpleasant experience of high level pain after surgery. Compared with open surgeries, arthroscopic procedures are less painful; however, inadequate pain management could be associated with significant concerns. Opioids alone or in combination with local anesthetics are frequently used for diminishing postoperative pain using intrav...

Automated mutual exclusion rules discovery for structured observational codes in echocardiography reporting.

Structured reporting in medicine has been argued to support and enhance machine-assisted processing and communication of pertinent information. Retrospective studies showed that structured echocardiography reports, constructed through point-and-click selection of finding codes (FCs), contain pair-wise contradictory FCs (e.g., "No tricuspid regurgitation" and "Severe regurgitation") downgrading rep...

Non-weight-based enoxaparin dosing subtherapeutic in trauma patients.

BACKGROUND: We report our experience dosing and monitoring enoxaparin with anti-factor Xa activity (anti-FXaA) levels for venous thromboembolism proph...

Suspect screening of large numbers of emerging contaminants in environmental waters using artificial neural networks for chromatographic retention time prediction and high resolution mass spectrometry data analysis.

The recent development of broad-scope high resolution mass spectrometry (HRMS) screening methods has resulted in a much improved capability for new co...

Statistical Machines for Trauma Hospital Outcomes Research: Application to the PRospective, Observational, Multi-Center Major Trauma Transfusion (PROMMTT) Study.

Improving the treatment of trauma, a leading cause of death worldwide, is of great clinical and public health interest. This analysis introduces flexi...

Retzius-sparing robot-assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy: Critical appraisal of the anatomic landmarks for a complete intrafascial approach.

To provide an overview of the anatomical landmarks needed to guide a retropubic (Retzius)-sparing robot-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy (RALP), an...

Prediction of feature genes in trauma patients with the TNF rs1800629 A allele using support vector machine.

BACKGROUND: Tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-α variant is closely linked to sepsis syndrome and mortality after severe trauma. We aimed to identify feature...

Recognition of activities of daily living in healthy subjects using two ad-hoc classifiers.

BACKGROUND: Activities of daily living (ADL) are important for quality of life. They are indicators of cognitive health status and their assessment is...

Experimental design strategy: weak reinforcement leads to increased hit rates and enhanced chemical diversity.

High Throughput Screening (HTS) is a common approach in life sciences to discover chemical matter that modulates a biological target or phenotype. How...

Hemoglobin-based oxygen carriers promote systemic hyperfibrinolysis that is both dependent and independent of plasmin.

BACKGROUND: Hyperfibrinolysis plays an integral role in the genesis of trauma-induced coagulopathy. Recent data demonstrate that red blood cell lysis ...

Utilizing Telemedicine in the Trauma Intensive Care Unit: Does It Impact Teamwork?

BACKGROUND: The aim of this study was to examine the impact of a telemedical robot on trauma intensive care unit (TICU) clinician teamwork (i.e., team...

Bridging a translational gap: using machine learning to improve the prediction of PTSD.

BACKGROUND: Predicting Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a pre-requisite for targeted prevention. Current research has identified group-level ri...

Partial splenectomy in the era of minimally invasive surgery: the current laparoscopic and robotic experiences.

BACKGROUND: Partial splenectomy (PS) is a spleen-preserving technique that is applied as a result of trauma, focal lesions or hematological conditions...

Applying under-sampling techniques and cost-sensitive learning methods on risk assessment of breast cancer.

Breast cancer is one of the most common cause of cancer mortality. Early detection through mammography screening could significantly reduce mortality ...

Surgical robots for SPL and NOTES: a review.

INTRODUCTION: Single port laparoscopy (SPL) and natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery (NOTES) are next-generation minimally invasive surgery...

Robotic natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery (R-NOTES): literature review and prototype system.

In minimally invasive surgery methods such as laparoscopic surgery, surgical instruments are introduced through small incisions to minimize patient tr...

Active-learning strategies in computer-assisted drug discovery.

High-throughput compound screening is time and resource consuming, and considerable effort is invested into screening compound libraries, profiling, a...

Effect of reporting bias in the analysis of spontaneous reporting data.

It is well-known that a spontaneous reporting system suffers from significant under-reporting of adverse drug reactions from the source population. Th...

The effect of a supplementary ('Gist-based') information leaflet on colorectal cancer knowledge and screening intention: a randomized controlled trial.

Guided by Fuzzy Trace Theory, this study examined the impact of a 'Gist-based' leaflet on colorectal cancer screening knowledge and intentions; and te...

Artificial neural networks in neurosurgery.

Artificial neural networks (ANNs) effectively analyze non-linear data sets. The aimed was A review of the relevant published articles that focused on ...