Study areas, population densities, and distributions of out-of-hospital cardiac arrests (OHCA) cases and hospitals in Kaohsiung, 2011–2013.

<p>Purple points indicate that patients with OHCA were transported to the closest emergency hospital while green points represent bypassing it.</p

Interpolation of the interval from the call to hospital admission by using the Kriging method.

<p>Areas marked with red indicate a prolonged interval of an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) case from the call to hospital admission, while areas marked with green show a short interval (<30 min). Uncolored areas are locations without sufficient interpolation information (sparse OHCA event points).</p

Flow chart of the study design.

<p>Abbreviations: CPR: cardiopulmonary resuscitation; AED: automated external defibrillator; LMA: laryngeal mask airway.</p

Survival percentages of out-of-hospital cardiac arrests (OHCA) by district in areas with high (> = 5,000 persons/km²) and low (< 5,000 persons/km²) population densities of Kaohsiung City, 2011–2013.

<p>Survival percentages of out-of-hospital cardiac arrests (OHCA) by district in areas with high (> = 5,000 persons/km²) and low (< 5,000 persons/km²) population densities of Kaohsiung City, 2011–2013.</p

The association between ambient <i>B. pseudomallei</i> and environmental parameters of lag 0, lag 1, lag 2, 2-days sum, 3-days sum, and 4-days sum during whole period (June to December), typhoon season (June to September), and typhoon month (August).

<p><b>*</b><b><i>p</i></b><b>-value<0.05;</b> lag 0, lag 1, lag 2, and lag 3: the effects of 0-, 1-, 2-, 3-day lags before the date ambient <i>B. pseudomallei</i> measurement.</p

Ambient <i>B. pseudomallei</i> and environmental characteristics during typhoon-affecting-period in 2012 in Taiwan.

a<p><b>N.D. means not detected.</b></p

Descriptive statistics for ambient <i>B. pseudomallei</i> and environmental factors in June, July, August and September.

a<p><b>N.D. means not detected;</b></p>b<p><b>1 unit equals 25 mW/m².</b></p

Associations between ambient <i>B. pseudomallei</i> concentrations and environmental parameters (rainfall and wind speed) divided by the mean and median values during whole period (June to December), typhoon season (June to September), and typhoon month (August).

<p>Associations between ambient <i>B. pseudomallei</i> concentrations and environmental parameters (rainfall and wind speed) divided by the mean and median values during whole period (June to December), typhoon season (June to September), and typhoon month (August).</p

(a) Teflon and PC filters comparison over 24 hours and 48 hours sampling after spiking the same quantity of <i>B. pseudomallei</i> (b) transport temperature comparison of 4°C and 25°C over 24 hours and 48 hours after spiking the same quantity of <i>B. pseudomallei</i> on Teflon filters.

<p>(a) Teflon and PC filters comparison over 24 hours and 48 hours sampling after spiking the same quantity of <i>B. pseudomallei</i> (b) transport temperature comparison of 4°C and 25°C over 24 hours and 48 hours after spiking the same quantity of <i>B. pseudomallei</i> on Teflon filters.</p

The path of (a) Talim, (b) Doksuri, (c) Saola, (d) Haikui, (e) Kai-Tak, (f) Tembin and (g) Jelawat Typhoon from Taiwan Central Weather Bureau.

<p>The path of (a) Talim, (b) Doksuri, (c) Saola, (d) Haikui, (e) Kai-Tak, (f) Tembin and (g) Jelawat Typhoon from Taiwan Central Weather Bureau.</p