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Women’s Participation and Globalization
What effect does women’s participation in national legislatures have on the levels of globalization, specifically economic and social globalization? I contend that women’s participation in national legislatures will have differing effects on economic and social globalization. I expect that higher levels of women’s participation in national legislatures will have a negative effect on levels of economic globalization and a positive effect on levels of social globalization. I demonstrate the plausibility of these relationships through an analysis of 194 countries between the years 1990 and 2017. Interestingly, my findings suggest that women’s participation in national legislatures has a positive and statistically significant impact on both economic and social globalization
Closed timelike curves in superfluid He
It is shown that the curved spacetime induced in a thin film of superfluid
He-A by the presence of symmetric vortices with the unbroken symmetry
phase, admits the existence of closed timelike curves through which only
superfluid clusters formed by anti-He atoms can travel and violate
causality.Comment: 7 pages, LaTex, to appear in Phys. Lett.
Outcome Prediction in Patients with Severe COVID-19 Requiring Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation—A Retrospective International Multicenter Study
The role of veno-venous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation therapy (V-V ECMO) in
severe COVID-19 acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is still under debate and conclusive
data from large cohorts are scarce. Furthermore, criteria for the selection of patients that benefit most
from this highly invasive and resource-demanding therapy are yet to be defined. In this study, we
assess survival in an international multicenter cohort of COVID-19 patients treated with V-V ECMO
and evaluate the performance of several clinical scores to predict 30-day survival. Methods: This is
an investigator-initiated retrospective non-interventional international multicenter registry study
(NCT04405973, first registered 28 May 2020). In 127 patients treated with V-V ECMO at 15 centers in
Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Belgium, and the United States, we calculated the Sequential Organ
Failure Assessment (SOFA) Score, Simplified Acute Physiology Score II (SAPS II), Acute Physiology And Chronic Health Evaluation II (APACHE II) Score, Respiratory Extracorporeal Membrane
Oxygenation Survival Prediction (RESP) Score, Predicting Death for Severe ARDS on V-V ECMO
(PRESERVE) Score, and 30-day survival. Results: In our study cohort which enrolled 127 patients,
overall 30-day survival was 54%. Median SOFA, SAPS II, APACHE II, RESP, and PRESERVE were 9,
36, 17, 1, and 4, respectively. The prognostic accuracy for all these scores (area under the receiver
operating characteristic—AUROC) ranged between 0.548 and 0.605. Conclusions: The use of scores
for the prediction of mortality cannot be recommended for treatment decisions in severe COVID-19
ARDS undergoing V-V ECMO; nevertheless, scoring results below or above a specific cut-off value
may be considered as an additional tool in the evaluation of prognosis. Survival rates in this cohort of
COVID-19 patients treated with V-V ECMO were slightly lower than those reported in non-COVID-19
ARDS patients treated with V-V ECMO
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Outcome Prediction in Patients with Severe COVID-19 Requiring Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation—A Retrospective International Multicenter Study
The role of veno-venous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation therapy (V-V ECMO) in severe COVID-19 acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is still under debate and conclusive data from large cohorts are scarce. Furthermore, criteria for the selection of patients that benefit most from this highly invasive and resource-demanding therapy are yet to be defined. In this study, we assess survival in an international multicenter cohort of COVID-19 patients treated with V-V ECMO and evaluate the performance of several clinical scores to predict 30-day survival. This is an investigator-initiated retrospective non-interventional international multicenter registry study (NCT04405973, first registered 28 May 2020). In 127 patients treated with V-V ECMO at 15 centers in Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Belgium, and the United States, we calculated the Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) Score, Simplified Acute Physiology Score II (SAPS II), Acute Physiology And Chronic Health Evaluation II (APACHE II) Score, Respiratory Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Survival Prediction (RESP) Score, Predicting Death for Severe ARDS on V‑V ECMO (PRESERVE) Score, and 30-day survival. In our study cohort which enrolled 127 patients, overall 30-day survival was 54%. Median SOFA, SAPS II, APACHE II, RESP, and PRESERVE were 9, 36, 17, 1, and 4, respectively. The prognostic accuracy for all these scores (area under the receiver operating characteristic-AUROC) ranged between 0.548 and 0.605. The use of scores for the prediction of mortality cannot be recommended for treatment decisions in severe COVID-19 ARDS undergoing V-V ECMO; nevertheless, scoring results below or above a specific cut-off value may be considered as an additional tool in the evaluation of prognosis. Survival rates in this cohort of COVID-19 patients treated with V‑V ECMO were slightly lower than those reported in non-COVID-19 ARDS patients treated with V-V ECMO
Survival after extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in severe COVID-19 ARDS: results from an international multicenter registry
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