The change of compressing personnel will inevitably accompany hands off time when cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is performed by two or more rescuers. The present study assessed whether changing compression by a second rescuer located on the opposite side (OS) of the first rescuer can reduce hands-off time compared to CPR on the same side (SS) when CPR is performed by two rescuers. The sce...

PURPOSE The SYNTAX Score (SS) has an important role in grading the complexity of coronary artery disease (CAD) in patients undergoing revascularization. Noninvasive determination of SS prior to invasive coronary angiography (ICA) might optimize patient management. We aimed to evaluate the agreement between ICA and multidetector computed tomography (MDCT) while testing the diagnostic effectivene...

The major hypotheses were that (a) high-anxious (HA) Ss talk with less spontaneity and affect in an ambiguous condition than in a more structured one, while for low-anxious (LA) Ss the reverse relationship obtains; (b) LA Ss talk with less affect and spontaneity than HA Ss. S2 HA and LA women were each instructed to talk as a patient might in therapy. 2 sets of instructions used were intended t...

OBJECTIVE This study aimed to assess the predictive value of risk factors (RFs) for gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) established by selective screening (SS) and to identify subgroups of women at a higher risk of developing GDM. DESIGN A retrospective, single-center study design was employed. METHODS Data of 1015 women screened for GDM at 24-28 weeks of gestation and diagnosed according t...

In 2004, the University of Michigan Medical School reduced its gross anatomy curriculum. To determine the effect of this reduction on resident perceptions of their clinical preparedness, we surveyed alumni that included residents from the original and new shortened curricula. A Likert-scale survey was sent to four classes of alumni. Respondents were compared in old curriculum (OC) and new curri...

-Detailed analyses of "subgroups" of Ss, defined by lesion size and locus, for Lashley's (1929) retention data suggested that parietal neo-cortical damage resulted in deficits that were relatively independent of total lesion size. It was suggested that Lashley's retention data provided questionable support for the principles of equipotentiality and mass function as he presented them and he did ...

BACKGROUND Autonomic dysfunction has been described in primary Sjögren's syndrome (SS). OBJECTIVE To investigate the circulatory autonomic regulation in patients with primary SS by power spectral analysis of heart rate and blood pressure variability. METHODS Forty three (42 female) patients with primary SS, mean age 52 years (range 23-80), with a mean disease duration of eight years (range ...

BACKGROUND In the present study, we investigated whether thymosin β (Tβ) in saliva and in minor salivary glands is differentially expressed in patients with primary Sjögren's syndrome (pSS) and patients with autoimmune diseases (systemic sclerosis [SSc], systemic lupus erythematosus [SLE], and rheumatoid arthritis [RA], with and without sicca syndrome [ss]). METHODS Saliva specimens of nine p...