Abstract Introduction Cardiac function has been found to decrease within the first 24 hours after burn injury and documented stay depressed for up 72 hours. Cardioprotective drugs such as sildenafil, PJ34, MitoTEMPO, ZLN005 have shown counteract this dysfunction when administered 1 hour before injury. However, there remains limited knowledge on effects of cardioprotective in early phase Methods...

Cryptogenic stroke is a form of cerebral vascular accident that has an unknown origin and is rarely associated with patent foramen ovale (PFO) and migraine headaches. This is an uncommon occurrence in young, healthy, active adults, and it is increasingly rare for the episode to occur during an athletic competition. Stroke is easily recognizable with its distinct signs and symptoms, but it is al...

Early detection and prompt treatment are important factors that limit morbidity and mortality secondary to venous air embolism (VAE) (1). The precordial Doppler ultrasonic sensor and transesophageal echocardiograph are the two most sensitive monitors currently available to detect VAE (2,3). The Aloka SSD-870 transesophageal echocardiograph is equipped with a Doppler sensor at the distal end of ...

Echocardiography is a widely used imaging technique to examine various cardiac functions, especially to detect the left ventricular wall motion abnormality. Unfortunately the quality of echocardiograph images and complexities of underlying motion captured, makes it difficult for an inexperienced physicians/ radiologist to describe the motion abnormalities in a crisp way, leading to possible err...

BACKGROUND Although pocket-sized, simplified ultrasound devices have emerged to enable subjective point-of-care assessment, few data on their cardiac application exist. We sought to examine the image quality and the accuracy of subjective diagnosis of video loops obtained from a pocket-sized ultrasound device for 2 significant cardiac abnormalities, left ventricular systolic dysfunction and lef...

INTRODUCTION The advent of universal health care coverage in the United States and the use of electronic health records can make the medical record a disease surveillance tool. The objective of our study was to identify criteria that accurately categorize acute coronary and heart failure events by using electronic health record data exclusively so that the medical record can be used for surveil...