BACKGROUND Posture-related vasovagal syncope is by far the most frequent cause of transient loss of consciousness, and present pharmacological and cardiac pacing treatment remains unsatisfactory. A simple maneuver to prevent or diminish vasovagal reactions would be beneficial. METHODS AND RESULTS Twenty-one patients with recurrent syncope (age 17 to 74 years, 11 males) who were referred for r...

Maneuver detection is a very important task for maintaining the catalog of the orbital objects and space situational awareness. This paper mainly focuses on the typical maneuver scenario, where space objects only perform tangential orbital maneuvers during a relative long gap. Particularly, only two classical and commonly applied orbital transition manners are considered, i.e. the twice tangent...

With overcrowding threatening the safety of Earth’s orbital environment, methods for tracking and understanding the motions of objects in orbit have become very important. This paper details an estimation algorithm that incorporates optimal control for the purposes of Maneuver Detection and Reconstruction. In this context, maneuver refers to any unmodeled acceleration: active spacecraft thrusti...

OBJECTIVE We wished to evaluate the effect of the Pringle maneuver (occlusion of both the hepatic artery and portal vein) on the pathologic changes in the hepatic vessels, bile ducts and liver parenchyma surrounding the ablation zone in rabbit livers. MATERIALS AND METHODS Radiofrequency (RF) ablation zones were created in the livers of 24 rabbits in vivo by using a 50-W, 480-kHz monopolar RF...

Lifting of a heavy weight may lead to "blackout" and occasionally also to cerebral hemorrhage, indicating pronounced consequences for the blood flow through the brain. We hypothesized that especially strenuous respiratory straining (a Valsalva-like maneuver) associated with intense static exercise would lead to a precipitous rise in mean arterial and central venous pressures and, in turn, influ...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Cardiac right-to-left shunts can be identified by transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) and by transcranial Doppler ultrasound (TCD) with the use of different contrast agents and different provocation procedures. Currently, data on an appropriate time window for the appearance of contrast bubbles in the TCD recording after the injection of the contrast medium and the com...

Background: Supraventricular tachycardia (SVT) is a relatively common dysrhythmia among the general population and a common dysrhythmia presenting to the emergency department. Generally speaking, it is assumed the provider should attempt a vagal maneuver as first-line treatment for SVT, and the most common vagal maneuver used is the Valsalva. Current resources describing the method to perform t...

[Purpose] The aim of this study was to compare improvements in swallowing function by the intervention of the Masako maneuver and neuromuscular electrical stimulation in patients with dysphagia caused by stroke. [Subjects and Methods] The Masako maneuver (n=23) and neuromuscular electrical stimulation (n=24) were conducted in 47 patients with dysphagia caused by stroke over a period of 4 weeks....