BACKGROUND With improvements in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) techniques, the quality and the effectiveness of CPR have been established; nevertheless, the survival rate after cardiac arrest still remains poor. Recently, many reports have shown good outcomes in cases where extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) was used during prolonged CPR. Accordingly, we attempted to evaluate the i...

The author's interest was aroused when he came across a large leather bound volume in the museum of the USS Constitution, which turned out to be the Physical and chirurgical transactions ofDr Peter St. Medard on board the US Frigate New-York from 1802-1803. It provided him with "a unique opportunity to study the effect of day-to-day medical practice on an early modem population". In that respec...

OBJECTIVE To compare efficiency of nonmydriatic ultrawide field retinal imaging (UWFI) and nonmydriatic fundus photography (NMFP) in a diabetic retinopathy (DR) ocular telehealth program. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Patients in this retrospective, comparative cohort study underwent NMFP and UWFI between 1 November 2011 and 1 November 2012. Images were evaluated for DR and diabetic macular edema...

Background: Malignant neoplasms remain the second leading cause of death in children after accidents. The aim of this study was to assess the epidemiology of childhood cancer in children admitted to Dr sheikh hospital, Iran. Materials and Methods: This descriptive cross- sectional study had been done in Dr Sheikh Hospital in Mashhad University of medical science on 1764 children younger than 1...

The cardiac rate and rhythm were studied by 24-hour ambulatory electrocardiographic recording in 44 patients before, during, and after being discharged from hospital following an acute myocardial infarction. The first recordings were started 48 hours before discharge, the second on the morning of the day of discharge, and the third 48 hours after discharge (at home). While in hospital and after...

Rush LN, et al. JISAKOS 2017;2:260–268. doi:10.1136/jisakos-2016-000069. Copyright © 2017 ISAKOS AbstrAct Importance Techniques for arthroscopic rotator cuff repair are rapidly evolving. Single-row (SR) and doublerow (DR) repair techniques have been well described, but recent studies have suggested the biomechanical superiority of transosseous-equivalent (TOE) DR repairs and triple-row (TR) rep...

The development of a handheld single and triple chamber atmospheric pressure coaxial dielectric barrier discharge driven by Flyback circuitry for helium and argon discharges is described. The Flyback uses external metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor power switching technology and the transformer operates in the continuous current mode to convert a continuous dc power of 10-33 W to...

Neurons in the region of cat's solitary tract nucleus were classified into three groups on the basis of their spontaneous discharge rate during slow wave sleep (SS) as compared with wakefulness (W): group I: SS greater than W; group II: SS less than W; and group III: SS divided by W. These three groups were further examined with regard to the modulation of discharge rate i) during motor activit...