Multimodality Monitoring: Toward Improved Outcomes

Multimodality monitoring in neurocritical care.

Multimodality monitoring of cerebral physiology encompasses the application of different monitoring techniques and integration of several measured physiologic and biochemical variables into assessment of brain metabolism, structure, perfusion, and oxygenation status. Novel monitoring techniques include transcranial Doppler ultrasonography, neuroimaging, intracranial pressure, cerebral perfusion...

Shared decision making: a path toward improved patient-centered outcomes.

Toward definitive trials and improved outcomes of cardiac arrest.

The survival rate from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest has remained essentially unchanged in the United States for the past several decades, hovering in the 7% to 10% range overall.1 In communities with more frequent bystander performance of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), short emergency medical services response times, and hospitalbased hypothermia, there is significantly better survival,...

Merits and pitfalls of multimodality brain monitoring.

In 1841 Magendi pioneered to measure cerebrospinal fluid pressure using the ‘‘sphygmometer,’’ an instrument originally designed for assessment of blood pressure. From then on, it took 110 years before the first intracranial pressure (ICP) monitoring data has been published in 1951, first ever introducing the important key-word of ‘‘monitoring’’ in the context of the human brain [1]. From this m...

Toward Improved Semantic Interoperability

Recent years have seen rapid progress in the development of ontologies as semantic models intended to capture and represent aspects of the real world. There is, however, great variation in the quality of ontologies. If ontologies are to become progressively better in the future, more rigorously developed, and more appropriately compared, then a systematic discipline of ontology evaluation must ...