INTRODUCTION Positive fluid balance has been associated with an increased risk for mortality in critically ill patients with acute kidney injury with or without renal replacement therapy (RRT). Data on fluid accumulation prior to RRT initiation and mortality are limited. We aimed to study the association between fluid accumulation at RRT initiation and 90-day mortality. METHODS We conducted a...

We introduce the Relational Responding Task (RRT) as a tool for capturing beliefs at the implicit level. Flemish participants were asked to respond as if they believed that Flemish people are more intelligent than immigrants (e.g., respond "true" to the statement "Flemish people are wiser than immigrants") or to respond as if they believed that immigrants are more intelligent than Flemish peopl...

as the world’s population continues to age, practitioners encounter increasing numbers of older patients with end-stage renal disease (esrd) who require renal replacement therapy (rrt). conservative management may be considered in older patients and has been shown to offer comparable survival rates and hospital-free days to rrt patients. at present, for those who choose rrt, hemodialysis is the...

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) path planning has increasingly become the key research point for civilian drones to expand their use and enhance work efficiency. Focusing on offline derivative algorithms, represented by Rapidly-exploring Random Trees (RRT), are widely utilized due high computational However, deploying these algorithms in complex changing disaster environments presents its own dra...

BACKGROUND The optimal time to initiate renal replacement therapy (RRT) in intensive care unit (ICU) patients with acute kidney injury (AKI) is unclear. We examined the impact of early RRT on long-term mortality, risk of chronic kidney disease (CKD), and end-stage renal disease (ESRD). METHODS This cohort study included all adult patients treated with continuous RRT in the ICU at Aarhus Unive...

INTRODUCTION Patients with severe acute kidney injury (AKI) who are hospitalized at centers that do not provide renal replacement therapy (RRT) are frequently subjected to inter-hospital transfer for the provision of RRT. It is unclear whether such transfers are associated with worse patient outcomes as compared with the receipt of initial care in a center that provides RRT. This study examined...

Path planning is an important aspect and component in the research of mobile-robot-related technologies. Many path algorithms are only applicable to static environments, while practical tasks, uncertainty dynamic environments increases difficulty obstacle avoidance compared with environments. To address this problem, paper proposes RRT*-FDWA algorithm. RRT* first generates a global optimal path...

Dynamic environments have obstacles that unpredictably appear, disappear, or move. We present the first sampling-based motion planning algorithm for real-time navigation through dynamic environments. Our algorithm, RRT, refines and repairs the same search-graph over the entire duration of navigation, i.e., despite changing obstacles and/or robot location. Whenever such changes are observed, e.g...

INTRODUCTION Acute kidney injury (AKI) increases mortality and morbidity of critically ill patients. Mortality of patients treated with renal replacement therapy (RRT) is high. We aimed to evaluate the nationwide incidence of RRT-treated AKI in Finland, hospital and six-month mortality, and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) of these patients. METHODS We performed a retrospective cohort s...

In this paper we propose a new family of RRT based algorithms, named RRT+, that are able to find faster solutions in high-dimensional configuration spaces compared to other existing RRT variants by finding paths in lower dimensional subspaces of the configuration space. The method can be easily applied to complex hyperredundant systems and can be adapted by other RRT based planners. We introduc...