OBJECTIVE To assess the risk of early death or acute myocardial infarction in patients undergoing isolated coronary artery bypass surgery for unstable coronary artery disease. METHODS Retrospective observational study of 853 patients operated on because of unstable coronary artery disease during 1990-1995. RESULTS There were 5.9% deaths and 13.0% nonfatal infarctions < or =30 days. These fi...

Based on the five-phase Landsat TM/ETM remote sensing image data, images were processed and landscape pattern indices calculated with help of ENVI FRAGSTATS software, respectively. Jian’ou city, a large agricultural city in northern Fujian Province, was used as county-scale study case to explore its changes during 20-year period from 1995 2015. The results show that development intensity increa...

BACKGROUND Inability to intubate and ventilate patients with respiratory failure is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. A patient is considered to have a difficult airway if an anesthesiologist or other health care provider experienced in airway management is unable to ventilate the patient's lungs using bag-mask ventilation and/or is unable to intubate the trachea using direct...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Data monitoring trends in stroke risk among different ethnic groups are lacking. Thus, we investigated trends in stroke incidence and modifiable stroke risk factors over a 10-year time period between different ethnic groups. METHODS Changes in stroke incidence were investigated with the South London Stroke Register (SLSR). The SLSR is a population-based stroke register,...

OBJECTIVES To assess the impact of a specifically designed model of orthopedic-geriatric cocare on hip fracture (HF) outcomes. SETTING Tertiary teaching hospital (level I trauma center). DESIGN Prospective observational study with a retrospective (historical) control. Data on 951 consecutive patients 60 years of age or older admitted to the authors' institution with a nonpathologic HF over ...

The purpose of this study was to look at the current epidemiological trends of lower limb amputees in 1995 and the trends since 1984 in the area of Southern Finland with 1.3 million inhabitants. During the one-year period, the lower limb amputation was performed on 366 patients. The overall amputation rate has been unchanged since 1984 being 28.0 per 100,000 inhabitants in 1995. The mean age wa...