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Severe pain and pulmonary complications commonly follow rib fractures, both of which may be improved by surgical stabilization of rib fractures (SSRFs). However, significant postoperative pain still persists which may negatively impact in-hospital outcomes. Combining intercostal nerve cryoablation (INCA) with SSRF may improve those outcomes by further decreasing postoperative pain, opioid consumption, and pulmonary complications. The hypothesis is that INCA plus SSRF reduces opioids consumption compared with SSRF alone.

The retrospective analysis included trauma patients 18 years or older who underwent SSRF, with or without INCA, in a Level I trauma center between 2015 and 2021. Patients received INCA at the surgeons' discretion based on familiarity with the procedure and absence of contraindications. Patients without INCA were the historical control group. Reported data include demographics, mechanism and severity of injury, number of ribs stabilized, cryoablated nerves, intubation rates and duration of ; Level III.
Many advancements in supraglottic airway technology have occurred since the start of the Global War on Terrorism. While the Tactical Combat Casualty Care guidelines previously recommend the i-gel device, this is based on little data and minimal end-user input.

We sought to use a mixed methods approach to investigate the properties of an ideal device for inclusion into the medic's aid bag.

We performed prospective, serial qualitative studies to uncover and articulate themes relative to airway device usability with 68W-combat medics. 68W are trained roughly to the level of a civilian advanced emergency medical technician with a heavier focus on trauma care. Physicians with airway expertise demonstrated the use of each device and provided formal training on all the presented devices. We then administered performed focus groups to solicit end-user feedback along with survey data.

We enrolled 250 medics during the study. The preponderance of medics were of the rank E4 (28%) and E5 (44%). Only 35% reported nagement; Level V.
Pulmonary contusion exists along a spectrum of severity, yet is commonly binarily classified as present or absent. We aimed to develop a deep learning algorithm to automate percent pulmonary contusion computation and exemplify how transfer learning could facilitate large-scale validation. We hypothesized that our deep learning algorithm could automate percent pulmonary contusion computation and that greater percent contusion would be associated with higher odds of adverse inpatient outcomes among patients with rib fractures.

We evaluated admission-day chest computed tomography scans of adults 18 years or older admitted to our institution with multiple rib fractures and pulmonary contusions (2010-2020). We adapted a pretrained convolutional neural network that segments three-dimensional lung volumes and segmented contused lung parenchyma, pulmonary blood vessels, and computed percent pulmonary contusion. Exploratory analysis evaluated associations between percent pulmonary contusion (quartiles) and odds of sharing and collaborative research are needed to validate our algorithm and exploratory analysis at a large scale. Transfer learning can help harness the full potential of big data and high-performing algorithms to bring precision medicine to the bedside.

Prognostic and epidemiological, Level III.
Prognostic and epidemiological, Level III.
Administration of antifibrinolytic medications, including tranexamic acid (TXA), may reduce head injury-related mortality. The effect of these medications on post-traumatic brain injury (TBI) inflammatory response is unknown. The goal of this study was to investigate the role of available antifibrinolytic medications on both systemic and cerebral inflammation after TBI.

An established murine weight drop model was used to induce a moderate TBI. Mice were administered 1, 10, or 100 mg/kg of TXA, 400 mg/kg of aminocaproic acid (Amicar, Hospira, Lake Forest, IL), 100 kIU/kg of aprotonin, or equivalent volume of normal saline (NS) 10 minutes after recovery. Mice were euthanized at 1, 6, or 24 hours. Serum and cerebral tissue were analyzed for neuron-specific enolase and inflammatory cytokines. Hippocampal histology was evaluated at 30 days for phosphorylated tau accumulation.

One hour after TBI, mice given TXA displayed decreased cerebral cytokine concentrations of tumor necrosis factor α (TNF-α) and, by 24 ffects. Aprotonin administration may increase systemic inflammation without significant contributions to neuroinflammation. selleck While no antifibrinolytic medication improved systemic inflammation, these data suggest that TXA may provide the most beneficial inflammatory modulation after TBI.
Tranexamic acid administration may provide acute neuroinflammatory protection in a dose-dependent manner. Amicar administration may be detrimental after TBI with increased cerebral and systemic inflammatory effects. Aprotonin administration may increase systemic inflammation without significant contributions to neuroinflammation. While no antifibrinolytic medication improved systemic inflammation, these data suggest that TXA may provide the most beneficial inflammatory modulation after TBI.
Recent studies have shown that nonoperative management of patients with splenic injury has up to a 90% success rate. However, delayed hemorrhage secondary to splenic artery pseudoaneurysm occurs in 5% to 10% of patients with up to 27% of patients developing a pseudoaneurysm on delayed imaging. The goal of our study was to evaluate the safety and utility of delayed computed tomography (CT) imaging for blunt splenic injury patients.

A retrospective evaluation of all traumatic splenic injuries from 2018 to 2020 at a single level 1 trauma center was undertaken. Patients were subdivided into four groups based on the extent of splenic injury grades I and II, grade III, grade IV, and grade V. Patient injury characteristics along with hospital length of stay, imaging, procedures, and presence/absence of pseudoaneurysm were documented.

A total of 588 trauma patients were initially included for evaluation, with 539 included for final analysis. Two hundred ninety-seven patients sustained grades I and II; 123 patieelayed splenic injury complications.

Therapeutic/Care Management; level IV.
Therapeutic/Care Management; level IV.
Deep neural networks (DNNs) have not been proven to detect blood loss (BL) or predict surgeon performance from video.

To train a DNN using video from cadaveric training exercises of surgeons controlling simulated internal carotid hemorrhage to predict clinically relevant outcomes.

Video was input as a series of images; deep learning networks were developed, which predicted BL and task success from images alone (automated model) and images plus human-labeled instrument annotations (semiautomated model). These models were compared against 2 reference models, which used average BL across all trials as its prediction (control 1) and a linear regression with time to hemostasis (a metric with known association with BL) as input (control 2). The root-mean-square error (RMSE) and correlation coefficients were used to compare the models; lower RMSE indicates superior performance.

One hundred forty-three trials were used (123 for training and 20 for testing). Deep learning models outperformed controls (control 1 RMSE 489 mL, control 2 RMSE 431 mL, R2 = 0.35) at BL prediction. The automated model predicted BL with an RMSE of 358 mL (R2 = 0.4) and correctly classified outcome in 85% of trials. The RMSE and classification performance of the semiautomated model improved to 260 mL and 90%, respectively.

BL and task outcome classification are important components of an automated assessment of surgical performance. DNNs can predict BL and outcome of hemorrhage control from video alone; their performance is improved with surgical instrument presence data. The generalizability of DNNs trained on hemorrhage control tasks should be investigated.
BL and task outcome classification are important components of an automated assessment of surgical performance. DNNs can predict BL and outcome of hemorrhage control from video alone; their performance is improved with surgical instrument presence data. The generalizability of DNNs trained on hemorrhage control tasks should be investigated.
Limited information on the normal range of urination frequencies in women is available to guide bladder health promotion efforts.

This study used data from the Boston Area Community Health (BACH) Survey to (a) estimate normative reference ranges in daytime and nighttime urination frequencies in healthy women based on two operational definitions of "healthy" and (b) compare urination frequencies by age, race/ethnicity, and fluid intake.

A secondary analysis of cross-sectional interview data collected from female participants was performed using less restrictive ("healthy") and strict ("elite healthy") inclusion criteria. All analyses were weighted to account for the BACH sampling design. Normative reference values corresponding to the middle 95% of the distribution of daytime and nighttime urination frequencies were calculated overall and stratified by age, race/ethnicity, and fluid intake. Generalized linear regression with a log-link was used to estimate rate ratios of daytime and nighttime urination fge of "normal" urination frequencies, with some differences by age, race/ethnicity, and fluid intake. Future research is needed to examine urination frequencies in minority women and whether fluid intake amount and type influence the development of lower urinary tract symptoms.
Normative reference values for daytime and nighttime urination frequencies were similar in women using strict and relaxed definitions of health. These results indicate a wide range of "normal" urination frequencies, with some differences by age, race/ethnicity, and fluid intake. Future research is needed to examine urination frequencies in minority women and whether fluid intake amount and type influence the development of lower urinary tract symptoms.
Although telemedicine use has been under discussion for decades, this topic has gained unprecedented importance during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Rheumatoid Arthritis Disease Activity Index (RADAI) is a user-friendly tool, fully self-administered, to assess rheumatoid arthritis (RA) disease activity. The aim of this study was to compare the performance of RADAI with other disease activity indices, functional status, and inflammatory markers in a large cohort of RA patients.

We assessed the concurrent validity of RADAI against Clinical Disease Activity Index (CDAI), Disease Activity Score in 28 Joints-C-reactive protein, Disease Activity Score in 28 Joints-erythrocyte sedimentation rate, Simplified Disease Activity Index, and physician assessment of disease activity and the correlation of RADAI with Health Assessment Questionnaire-Disability Index and inflammatory markers at the REAL Study baseline. We also evaluated the correlation of the change in RADAI and the change in CDAI over a 6-month follow-up.

From the 1115 patients included in the REAL Study, 1113 had RADAI scores in the first assessment. At baseline, correlations between RADAI and other disease activity indices were strong, ranging from 0.64 (comparison with physician assessment) to 0.79 (comparison with CDAI). Correlation between the change in RADAI score over the 6 months of follow-up and the change in CDAI score over the same period was moderate/strong for the overall group and within the stratified analyses.

The strong correlation of RADAI with other well-established tools for disease activity measurement reassures its use with RA patients' follow-up, especially in this new era of telemedicine.
The strong correlation of RADAI with other well-established tools for disease activity measurement reassures its use with RA patients' follow-up, especially in this new era of telemedicine.
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