Recombinant thrombomodulin (rTM) is widely used for septic disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) in Japan. Tagami and colleagues performed an analysis using a nationwide administrative database in Japan and reported that rTM did not reduce the mortality in pneumonia-associated DIC (37.6 % in the rTM group vs 37.0 % in the control group, odds ratio: 1.01 (95 % confidence interval: 0.93 to...

CONTEXT The present study of current telemedicine users is a unique attempt to understand the barriers and motivational factors related to the utilization of telemedicine. OBJECTIVE A survey of emergency and critical care remote presence telemedicine users was conducted to determine the factors that motivate and the barriers that impede the acceptance and maintenance of a robotic telemedicine...

Representational theory of mind (RTM) development follows a universal developmental timetable whereby major advances in reasoning about mental representations occur between the ages of 3 and 5 years old. This progression appears to be only absent in the case of specific neurodevelopmental impairments, such as autism. Taken together, this suggests that neuromaturational factors may play a role i...