Home Monitoring trends during COVID-19 infection

Background: Cardiac implantable electronic device (CIED) recipients could have an unfavorable prognosis if infected with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). We aimed to analyze the data daily transmitted by the Home Monitoring (HM) system (BIOTRONIK, Berlin, Germany) of CIEDs during the infection. Methods: We identified CIED patients followed with the HM who experienced COVID-19 clinical manifestations. The daily trends of the following HM variables were analyzed: mean heart rate (HR), physical activity, thoracic impedance (TI), ventricular and atrial arrhythmic burden. Results: The study cohort included 10 CIED patients (median age 90 [84-92] years, male 90%) with acute respiratory syndrome. The HR showed an increase of a value ranging from 10 to 30\ua0bpm well in advance of the severe clinical manifestations. The physical activity was generally low during the entire infection course. The TI decreased in patients presented with pulmonary edema, but increased significantly (8 to 25\ua0\u3a9) in most COVID-19 patients (8 out of 10) suggesting an association with pulmonary fibrosis. Arrhythmic complications were also found in half of the patients. Conclusion: The trends of HR and TI in CIEDs recipients infected by the COVID-19 often showed early recurrent patterns before adverse clinical manifestations

Open and standardized tools for smart transducer networking

IEEE 1451 Standard is intended to address the smart transducer interfacing problematic in network environments. Usually, proprietary hardware and software is a very efficient solution to in planent the IEEE 1451 normative, although can be expensive and inflexible. In contrast, the use of open and standardized tools for implementing the IEEE 1451 normative is proposed in this paper. Tools such as Java and Phyton programming languages, Linux, programmable logic technology, Personal Computer resources and Ethernet architecture were integrated in order to constructa network node based on the IEEE 1451 standards. The node can be applied in systems based on the client-server communication model The evaluation of the employed tools and expermental results are presented. © 2005 IEEE

AN EXTENSIVE MOLECULAR CYTOGENETIC CHARACTERIZATION IN HIGH-RISK CHRONIC LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA IDENTIFIES KARYOTYPE ABERRATIONS AND TP53 DISRUPTION AS PREDICTORS OF OUTCOME AND CHEMOREFRACTORINESS

AN EXTENSIVE MOLECULAR CYTOGENETIC CHARACTERIZATION IN HIGH-RISK CHRONIC LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA IDENTIFIES KARYOTYPE ABERRATIONS AND TP53 DISRUPTION AS PREDICTORS OF OUTCOME AND CHEMOREFRACTORINES

OMEGA EP: High-energy petawatt capability for the OMEGA laser facility

OMEGA EP (Extended Performance) is a petawatt-class addition to the existing 30-kJ, 60-beam OMEGA Laser Facility at the University of Rochester. When completed, it will consist of four beamlines, each capable of producing up to 6.5 kJ at 351 nm in a 1 to 10 ns pulse. Two of the beamlines will produce up to 2.6 kJ in a pulse-width range of 1 to 100 ps at 1053 nm using chirped-pulse amplification (CPA). This paper reviews both the OMEGA EP performance objectives and the enabling technologies required to meet these goals