Endovascular treatment of basilar tip aneurysms in the era of endosaccular flow disruption: a comparative study

PURPOSE This study aims to compare endosaccular flow disruptor (EFD) for treatment of basilar tip aneurysm (BTA) with coiling in terms of safety and efficacy. METHODS We retrospectively reviewed patients treated with an EFD for BTAs at our institution between 2013 and 2019 to standard coiling from the same period (control group). Patient demographics, aneurysm characteristics, procedural data, complications and clinical and angiographic outcome were compared between groups. RESULTS Twenty-three (56%) patients were treated with an EFD and eighteen (44%) patients were treated with coiling. Average aneurysm size was 8~mm in the EFD group and 6.9~mm in the coiling group, respectively (P = 0.2). Average fluoroscopy time, treatment DAP and air kerma were 33~min, 76 Gycm2 and 1.7~Gy in the EFD group and 81~min, 152 Gycm2 and 3.8~Gy in the coiling group, respectively (P < 0.001). In the EFD group, clinically relevant thromboembolic complications occurred in one patient (4%) vs. in 5 patients (28%) in the coiling group (P = 0.07). In each group, 4 patients had an unfavourable outcome at discharge (P = 0.7). Adequate occlusion rates were 96% in the EFD group and 100% and coiling group. Six (26%) patients were prescribed long-term antiplatelet therapy in the EFD group vs. eleven (61%) patients in the coiling group (P = 0.02). CONCLUSION Both treatment concepts provided similar technical success and safety. However, procedure time, radiation exposure and a need for long-term antiaggregation were lower with EFD

Cyclurban - A lessons learned report

The lessons learned report summarizes the findings of the project „Cycling as an element of urban climate mitigation policy (Cyclurban)”. The project advance cycling as a measure for sustainable urban mobility and climate mitigation on a local level. In particular, the project researched the situation and developed measures to strengthen cycling mobility in the areas infrastructure, policy and planning, services and promotion, also taking into account new developments such as e-bikes and cargo bikes. The project consortium covered seven EU countries (Germany, Estonia, Latvia, Poland, Croatia, Greece, Slovakia). The report is available in seven languages

Das Zürcher Formel E Rennen im öffentlichen Meinungsbild

Repräsentative Befragung von 1209 volljährigen Personen aus dem Kanton Zürich und den umliegenden Kantonen im Zeitraum 15. – 31. Mai 2018. Der statistische Fehler beträgt mit 5% Wahrscheinlichkeit +/- 2.82%. Rund 50% der befragten Personen haben bereits vom Formel E Rennen in Zürich gehört und wissen, dass es stattfindet. Etwas mehr als die Hälfte der Befragten befürwortet das Rennen. Rund ein Drittel ist dage-gen. Die Zustimmung zur Durchführung des Rennens im kommenden Jahr (2019) ist mit 47% etwas geringer. Die Befragten schätzen mit leichter Mehrheit (56%) die Gefahren eines Rennens mit Elekt-roboliden als ähnlich hoch ein wie bei Formel 1 Rennen. Die Ausnahme vom Rundstrecken-rennverbot sehen lediglich knapp 30% als ungerechtfertigt an. Rund 6.5 % der Befragten geben an, dass Sie das Rennen besuchen wollen. Auf die Be-völkerung der erfassten Kantone hochgerechnet könnte dies bedeuten, dass rund 175'000 Personen aus diesen Kantonen zu erwarten wären

Integration of a sound source detection into a probabilistic-based multimodal approach for person detection and tracking

Abstract. Dealing with methods of Human-Robot-Interaction and using a real mobile robot, stable methods for people detection and tracking are fundamental features of such a system and require information from different sources. Based on an existing probability-based and multimodal approach for person detection and tracking, in this paper, we discuss the integration of a further sensory cue. This sensory cue is a sound source detection emerged from auditory information. Firstly, we discuss a newly developed approach for a sound source detection applied for a real world problem, dealing with the difficulty of reverberant environments. Secondly, we show a possible solution to integrate the sound source detection into the already existing person detection and tracking system applied for the mobile interaction robot Horos working in a real office environment.