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Effectiveness of mechanical chest compression for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients in an emergency department
AbstractBackgroundTo increase the chance of restoring spontaneous circulation, cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) with high-quality chest compressions is needed. We hypothesized that, in a municipal hospital emergency department, the outcome in nontraumatic out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients treated with standard CPR followed by mechanical chest compression (MeCC) was not inferior to that followed by manual chest compression (MaCC). The purposes of the study were to test our hypothesis and investigate whether the use of MeCC decreased human power demands for CPR.MethodsA total of 455 consecutive out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients of presumed cardiac etiology were divided into two groups according to the chest compressions they received (MaCC or MeCC) in this retrospective review study. Human power demand for CPR was described according to the Basic Life Support/Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support guidelines and the device handbook. The primary endpoint was recovery of spontaneous circulation during resuscitation, and the secondary endpoints were survival to hospital admission and medical human power demands.ResultsIn this study, recovery of spontaneous circulation was achieved in 33.3% of patients in the MeCC group and in 27.1% in the MaCC group (p = 0.154), and the percentages of patients who survived hospitalization were 22.2% and 17.6%, respectively (p = 0.229). A ratio of 2:4 for the human power demand for CPR between the groups was found. Independent predictors of survival to hospitalization were ventricular fibrillation/pulseless ventricular tachycardia as initial rhythm and recovery of spontaneous circulation.ConclusionNo difference was found in early survival between standard CPR performed with MeCC and that performed with MaCC. However, the use of the MeCC device appears to promote staff availability without waiving patient care in the human power-demanding emergency departments of Taiwan hospitals
2019 Kidney Tumor Segmentation Challenge: Medical Image Segmentation with Two-Stage Process
Since we are trying to deal with the medical images of real patients, the dataset are usually predominantly composed of ”normal” samples. The target classes only appear in a very small portion of the entire dataset, which leads to the so-called class imbalance problem. Besides, there is only a small percentage of foreground inside the ”abnormal” images. The great majority of background leads the significant detrimental effect on training. In such cases, model tends to focus on learning the dominant classes, leading to the poor prediction of minority class. However, the incorrect classification of pathological images can cause serious consequence in clinical practice
Pair production of the T-odd leptons at the LHC
The T-odd leptons predicted by the littlest model with T-parity can
be pair produced via the subprocesses ,
, and (= or
) at the Large Hadron Collider . We estimate the hadronic
production cross sections for all of these processes and give a simply
phenomenology analysis. We find that the cross sections for most of the above
processes are very small. However, the value of the cross section for the
process can reach .Comment: 12 pages, 2 figure
Nonlinear and nonreciprocal transport effects in untwinned thin films of ferromagnetic Weyl metal SrRuO
The identification of distinct charge transport features, deriving from
nontrivial bulk band and surface states, has been a challenging subject in the
field of topological systems. In topological Dirac and Weyl semimetals,
nontrivial conical bands with Fermi-arc surfaces states give rise to negative
longitudinal magnetoresistance due to chiral anomaly effect and unusual
thickness dependent quantum oscillation from Weyl-orbit effect, which were
demonstrated recently in experiments. In this work, we report the experimental
observations of large nonlinear and nonreciprocal transport effects for both
longitudinal and transverse channels in an untwinned Weyl metal of SrRuO
thin film grown on a SrTiO substrate. From rigorous measurements with
bias current applied along various directions with respect to the crystalline
principal axes, the magnitude of nonlinear Hall signals from the transverse
channel exhibits a simple sin dependent at low temperatures, where
is the angle between bias current direction and orthorhombic
[001], reaching a maximum when current is along orthorhombic
[1-10]. On the contrary, the magnitude of nonlinear and nonreciprocal
signals in the longitudinal channel attains a maximum for bias current along
[001], and it vanishes for bias current along [1-10]. The
observed -dependent nonlinear and nonreciprocal signals in longitudinal
and transverse channels reveal a magnetic Weyl phase with an effective Berry
curvature dipole along [1-10] from surface states, accompanied by 1D
chiral edge modes along [001].Comment: 24 pages, 6 figure
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