According to the methods of Patient-Reported Outcome (PRO) based on the patient reports internationally and referring to U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) guide, some scholars developed this PRO of stroke which is consistent with China's national conditions, and using it the feel of stroke patients was introduced into the clinical efficacy evaluation system of stoke. "Ischemic Stroke TCM ...

Pain that occurs after a stroke lowers the quality of life. Such post-stroke pain is caused in part by the brain lesion itself, called central post-stroke pain. We investigated the analgesic effects of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) in stroke patients through quantitative sensory testing. Fourteen participants with central post-stroke pain (7 female and 7 male subjects) were rec...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the relationship between temperature extremes and daily number of deaths in Jinan, a temperate city in northern China. METHODS Data ondaily number of deaths and meteorological variables over the period of 2011-2014 were collected. Cold spells or heat waves were defined as ≥3 consecutive days with mean temperature ≤5th percentile or ≥95th percentile, respectively. We a...

ADiesel cycle enginewith internal and external irreversibilities of finite combustion rate of the fuel, friction and heat leakage is investigated in this paper. The heat transfer between the working fluid and the environment outside the cylinder obeys generalized radiative heat transfer law [q ∝ ∆(T n)]. Under the conditions of the fixed total cycle time and fuel consumed per cycle, the optimal...

normal. She was started on rigorous treatment of heat stroke as well as bromocriptine, although there was no clinical evidence of Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome. She also received intensive measures to bring about body cooling. However, her condition started deteriorating and after about 26 hours, her renal function was affected reflected by steadily increasing levels of urea and creatinine. Sh...

Since Biblical times, heat injuries have been a major focus of military medical personnel. Heat illness accounts for considerable morbidity during recruit training and remains a common cause of preventable nontraumatic exertional death in the United States military. This brief report describes current regulations used by Army, Air Force, and Navy medical personnel to return active duty warfight...

This symposium focuses on exertional heatstroke, with emphasis on predisposing factors, clinical observations, diagnosis, treatment and recovery. The serious challenge to cardiovascular stability presented by exercise hyperthermia and some aspects of regulatory failure was reviewed in the introduction. The intent of this review, to understand how heat stress is translated into heat strain at th...

Cardiovascular drift, the progressive increase in heart rate and decrease in stroke volume that begins after approximately 10 min of prolonged moderate-intensity exercise, is associated with decreased maximal oxygen uptake, particularly during heat stress. Consequently, the increased heart rate reflects an increased relative metabolic intensity during prolonged exercise in the heat when cardiov...

Heat acclimation enhances cardiac efficiency by increasing stroke volume and decreasing heart rate. These adaptations involve biochemical changes in the contractile apparatus, switched on by altered expression of genes coding contractile and calcium-regulatory proteins and partially mediated by persistent low thyroxine. Heat acclimation also produces cross-tolerance to oxygen deprivation, thus ...