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[Changes of platelet rheological behavior and the interventional effects of ulinastatin in rats with high-voltage electrical burns].

To explore the influence of high-voltage electrical burns on the number of platelet aggregation, β-thromboglobulin (β-TG) and platelet factor 4 (PF-4) and the interventional effects of ulinastatin in rats with high-voltage electrical burns. A total of 240 Sprague-Dawley rats were divided into sham injury (SI) group, simple electrical burn (SEB) group, normal saline (NS) group, and ulinastatin (U...

Percutaneous kyphoplasty versus posterior spinal fixation with vertebroplasty for treatment of Kümmell disease: A case-control study with minimal 2-year follow-up.

This is a retrospective case-control study.The aim of this study was to compare the surgical results of percutaneous kyphoplasty (KP) and posterior spinal fixation with vertebroplasty (PSF+VP) for treatment of Kümmell disease (KD).KD is rare form of post-traumatic delayed avascular necrosis of the vertebral body. It is reported that KP is an effect measure for treatment of KD. Some studies have re...

Prediction of persistent post-surgery pain by preoperative cold pain sensitivity: biomarker development with machine-learning-derived analysis.

BACKGROUND: To prevent persistent post-surgery pain, early identification of patients at high risk is a clinical need. Supervised machine-learning tec...

Motor adaptation to lateral pelvis assistance force during treadmill walking in individuals post-stroke.

The goal of this study was to determine how individuals post-stroke response to the lateral assistance force applied to the pelvis during treadmill wa...

Machine Learning Models of Post-Intubation Hypoxia During General Anesthesia.

Fine-meshed perioperative measurements are offering enormous potential for automatically investigating clinical complications during general anesthesi...

Preclinical Evaluation of Ga-MAA from Commercial Available Tc-MAA Kit.

Tc-Macroaggregated Albumin (Tc-MAA) has been used as a perfusion agent. This study described development of the Ga-MAA via commercially available kits...

Artificial Intelligence and Semantics through the Prism of Structural, Post-Structural and Transcendental Approaches.

There is a problem associated with contemporary studies of philosophy of mind, which focuses on the identification and convergence of human and machin...

Classification of EEG based-mental fatigue using principal component analysis and Bayesian neural network.

This paper presents an electroencephalography (EEG) based-classification of between pre- and post-mental load tasks for mental fatigue detection from ...

Robotic-assisted laparoscopic hysterectomy for women with endometrial cancer - complications, women´s experiences, quality of life and a health economic evaluation.

This thesis contains four studies all focusing on women with endometrial cancer undergoing robotic-assisted laparoscopic hysterectomy (RALH). Women wi...

Prognostic Risk Factors Associated with Recurrence and Metastasis After Radical Resection in Patients with Hepatolithiasis Complicated by Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma.

The objective of this study was to analyze the predictive significance of different prognostic factors associated with recurrence and metastasis after...

Aspherical lens design using hybrid neural-genetic algorithm of contact lenses.

The design of complex contact lenses involves numerous uncertain variables. How to help an optical designer to first design the optimal contact lens t...

Post-operative bleeding risk stratification in cardiac pulmonary bypass patients using artificial neural network.

The prediction of bleeding risk in cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) patients plays a vital role in their postoperative management. Therefore, an artificia...

Problem Solving for Volatilizing Situation in Nursing: Developing Thinking Process Supporting System using NursingNAVI® Contents.

We have identified three foci of the nursing observation and nursing action respectively. Using these frameworks, we have developed the structured kno...

A Novel Approach to Create a Machine Readable Concept Model for Validating SNOMED CT Concept Post-coordination.

Post-coordination provides the means to achieve an appropriate content coverage, which is critical in successfully adopting clinical reference termino...

Multiple ocular diseases detection based on joint sparse multi-task learning.

In this paper, we present a multiple ocular diseases detection scheme based on joint sparse multi-task learning. Glaucoma, Pathological Myopia (PM), a...

Biometry-based concentric tubes robot for vitreoretinal surgery.

Vitreoretinal surgery requires dexterous manoeuvres of tiny surgical tools in the confined cavity of the human eye through incisions made on the scler...

EFFECTS OF PREOPERATIVE ENOXAPARIN ON BLEEDING AFTER CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY.

BACKGROUND: Low molecular weight heparins are replacing unfractionated heparin in practice prior to cardiac surgery. This study examines postoperative...