https://www.spg.pt/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/2013-ACG_Guideline_AcutePancreatitis_September_2013.pdf

American College of Gastroenterology guideline: management of acute pancreatitis.

Bilateral teleoperation: An historical survey

The study group.

Background
Mobile technologies could be a powerful media for providing individual level support to health care consumers. We conducted a systematic review to assess the effectiveness of mobile technology interventions delivered to health care consumers.

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The Effectiveness of Mobile-Health Technology-Based Health Behaviour Change or Disease Management Interventions for Health Care Consumers: A Systematic Review

The causes of acute rhabdomyolysis include trauma, drugs, toxins, and certain infections. Acute kidney injury is a dangerous complication of severe rhabdomyolysis. This review summarizes current views on the pathogenesis of myoglobin-induced kidney injury as well as on its prevention and treatment.

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Rhabdomyolysis and Acute Kidney Injury

Peripheral venous access in infants and children is technically challenging, because their veins are small and located deep in subcutaneous tissue, which makes them difficult to palpate or visualize. The VeinViewer® (Luminetx Corporation, Memphis, TN, USA) is a near-infrared light device that delineates the running course of subcutaneous veins. In this study, we investigated whether the use of the VeinViewer® in infants and children facilitated peripheral venous access, especially in difficult cases. This study was a randomized, controlled trial of a convenience sample of pediatric patients between the ages of 1 month and 16 years who required peripheral venous access in the pediatric ward. Prior to randomization, difficult intravenous access (DIVA) score, a four-variable clinical prediction rule for first-attempt success, was estimated. We compared the first-attempt success rates and procedural times between the VeinViewer® group and a control group. We evaluated 111 patients: 54 in the VeinViewer® group and 57 in the control group. Patient demographics and factors related to the success of vein access were similar for both groups. The overall first-attempt success rate was 69.4%: i.e., 77/111 in the VeinViewer® group and 38/57 in the control group, a difference that was not statistically significant. However, the first-attempt success rate increased from 5/20 in the control group to 14/24 in the VeinViewer® group for difficult veins with a DIVA score greater than 4 (p = 0.026). There were no significant differences in procedural time between the two groups. Conclusion: The VeinViewer® facilitated peripheral venous access for pediatric patients with difficult veins, which enhanced first-attempt success rates.

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Efficacy of VeinViewer in pediatric peripheral intravenous access: a randomized controlled trial.

Objective: To compare the effectiveness and side effects of lactated Ringer’s solution (LR) and 0.9% saline (NS) in the treatment of rhabdomyolysis induced by doxylamine intoxication. Methods: In this 15-month-long prospective randomised single-blind study, after excluding 8 patients among 97 doxylamine-intoxicated patients, 28 (31%) patients were found to have developed rhabdomyolysis and were randomly allocated to NS group (n = 15) or LR group (n = 13). Results: After 12 h of aggressive hydration (400 ml/h), urine/serum pH was found to be significantly higher in the LR group, and serum Na+/Cl− levels to be significantly higher in the NS group. There were no significant differences in serum K+ level and in the time taken for creatine kinase normalisation. The amount of sodium bicarbonate administered and the frequency administration of diuretics was significantly higher in the NS group. Unlike the NS group, the LR group needed little supplemental sodium bicarbonate and did not develop metabolic acidosis. Conclusion: LR is more useful than NS in the treatment of rhabdomyolysis induced by doxylamine intoxication.

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Comparison of lactated Ringer’s solution and 0.9% saline in the treatment of rhabdomyolysis induced by doxylamine intoxication

https://ir.ymlib.yonsei.ac.kr/bitstream/22282913/95964/1/T200700988.pdf

Effect of vehicle speed on the quality of closed-chest compression during ambulance transport

A torque sharing function (TSF) method is one of the torque control methods that drives each phase of a switched reluctance motor so that the overall torque becomes a constant torque. The conventional TSF method defined the TSF only at a positive torque production region, which causes a poor torque-speed performance as the speed increases due to the delay of the current rising and falling time. This paper extends the definition region of the TSF to the negative torque region to have enough time to raise or decrease the current at the positive torque region. This extended TSF enables to increase the positive torque even in relatively high speed operation. Optimal determination of the TSF is investigated for various control objectives in mathematical and experimental ways.

Seungho Kim

Papers

Efficacy of VeinViewer in pediatric peripheral intravenous access: a randomized controlled trial.

Comparison of lactated Ringer’s solution and 0.9% saline in the treatment of rhabdomyolysis induced by doxylamine intoxication

Comparison of lactated Ringer’s solution and 0.9% saline in the treatment of rhabdomyolysis induced by doxylamine intoxication

Effect of vehicle speed on the quality of closed-chest compression during ambulance transport

A new torque control method of a switched reluctance motor using a torque-sharing function