Emergency Medicine

Suicide Risk Assessment in Hospitals: An Expert System-Based Triage Tool.

BACKGROUND: The November 2010 Joint Commission Sentinel Event Alert on the prevention of suicides in medical/surgical units and the emergency department (ED) mandates screening every patient treated as an outpatient or admitted to the hospital for suicide risk. Our aim was to develop a suicide risk assessment tool to (1) predict the expert psychiatrist's assessment for risk of committing suicide w...

Big Data and Machine Learning in Plastic Surgery: A New Frontier in Surgical Innovation.

Medical decision-making is increasingly based on quantifiable data. From the moment patients come into contact with the health care system, their entire medical history is recorded electronically. Whether a patient is in the operating room or on the hospital ward, technological advancement has facilitated the expedient and reliable measurement of clinically relevant health metrics, all in an effor...

[The clinical condition and treatment of diseases associated with sudden death].

The Hokkaido Medical Society is a group of doctors and medical researchers in Hokkaido. Its purpose is to contribute to medicine and to the improvemen...

American Psychiatric Nurses Association-Transitions in Practice Certificate Program: Bridging the Knowledge Gap in Caring for Psychiatric Patients Within the General Nursing Workforce.

The purpose of this article is to publicize an important new Web-based educational program. Recognizing the growing gap in psychiatric-mental health k...

Tailor-made rehabilitation approach using multiple types of hybrid assistive limb robots for acute stroke patients: A pilot study.

This article investigated the feasibility of a tailor-made neurorehabilitation approach using multiple types of hybrid assistive limb (HAL) robots for...

Use of machine learning approaches for novel drug discovery.

INTRODUCTION: The use of computational tools in the early stages of drug development has increased in recent decades. Machine learning (ML) approaches...

Discussion on robot-assisted laparoscopic cystectomy and Ileal neobladder surgery preoperative care.

To investigate the clinical applications of robot-assisted radical cystectomy with orthotopic ileal neobladder (RARC-INB) and make a preliminary summa...

Haptic Neurorehabilitation and Virtual Reality for Upper Limb Paralysis: A Review.

Motor and sensory loss or dysfunction affects the quality of life for thousands of individuals daily. The upper limb, and especially the hand, are imp...

Robotic Assessment of Upper Limb Function after Proximal Humeral Fracture: Personal Experience as A Patient and Occupational Therapist.

Robotics is an emerging field in rehabilitation medicine. Robots have the potential to complement traditional clinical assessments because they can me...

Investigation of the Tiger Milk Medicinal Mushroom, Lignosus rhinocerotis (Agaricomycetes), as an Antiulcer Agent.

The aim of this study was to determine the antiulcer activity of Lignosus rhinocerotis in rats. A total of 48 Sprague-Dawley rats were used in ethanol...

The comparison of humeral intraosseous and intravenous administration of vasopressin on return of spontaneous circulation and pharmacokinetics in a hypovolemic cardiac arrest swine model.

INTRODUCTION: The American Heart Association (AHA) recommends intravenous (IV) or intraosseous (IO) vasopressin in Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS...

Outlier detection and removal improves accuracy of machine learning approach to multispectral burn diagnostic imaging.

Multispectral imaging (MSI) was implemented to develop a burn tissue classification device to assist burn surgeons in planning and performing debridem...

[Clinical observation on the treatment of phenol burn patients complicated by acute kidney injury with early blood purification].

OBJECTIVE: To observe the clinical effects of early blood purification in the treatment of phenol burn patients complicated by acute kidney injury (AK...

[Effects and risks of hypothermia during blood purification in the treatment of postoperative cardiogenic shock in valvular heart diseases].

OBJECTIVE: To implement hypothermia during blood purification to investigate its effect and risk in the treatment of postoperative cardiogenic shock i...

[Protective effect of erythropoietin on brain tissue in rats with cardiopulmonary resuscitation after asphyxia].

OBJECTIVE: To study the protective effect of erythropoietin (EPO) on brain tissue with cardiac arrest-cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CA-CPR) and its m...

Understanding Emergency Department 72-Hour Revisits Among Medicaid Patients Using Electronic Healthcare Records.

Electronic Healthcare Records (EHRs) have the potential to improve healthcare quality and to decrease costs by providing quality metrics, discovering ...

Toxicological assessment of polyhexamethylene biguanide for water treatment.

Polyhexamethylene biguanide (PHMB) is an antiseptic with antiviral and antibacterial properties used in a variety of products including wound care dre...

Postoperative Bleeding After Administration of a Single Dose of Rivaroxaban to a Patient Receiving Antiretroviral Therapy.

A 62-year-old man was admitted to hospital for elective revision of a left total hip arthroplasty. His history was significant for human immunodeficie...

Accidental Overdose of Oral Cyclosporine in Haematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation: A Case Report and Literature Review.

A 26-year-old woman developed symptoms of acute toxicity during cyclosporine (CsA) therapy for graft-versus-host disease prophylaxis. The standard reg...

Validation of an UV spectrophotometric assay for the quantification of polymyxin B in solid lipid nanoparticles.

Polymyxins are efficient antibiotic drugs used for the treatment of Gram-negative bacterial infections. These compounds are not absorbed in the gastro...