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Communication skills curricula should address how the medical interview affects empathy and interaction with patients and encourage discussion and reflection on how to retrieve medical information while paying adequate attention to the patient's and own emotions, experiences, and perspectives.
Communication skills curricula should address how the medical interview affects empathy and interaction with patients and encourage discussion and reflection on how to retrieve medical information while paying adequate attention to the patient's and own emotions, experiences, and perspectives.
Twitter is one of the world's leading social media platforms, and the most popular such forum for medical professionals. We previously examined how Twitter is used in radiology and suggested methods of optimizing Twitter for radiology education. Here we address those in the radiology community who have not yet embraced Twitter or those who have just begun, offering insights or hacks to make the reader more comfortable with initiating or better leveraging a Twitter account to enhance their radiology work lives.

We analyzed our Twitter account (@ctisus), dedicated to radiology education and based in the Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science at Johns Hopkins Hospital, to ascertain how we could best use the platform for radiology education. We also used the healthcare social media monitoring website Symplur to track the use of 7 radiology-related hashtags from March 6 to April 4, 2021.

Over the 30-day period, we found that #radiology was used 12,311 times; #RadRes (radiology resTwitter may seem to be a daunting field of misinformation, but radiologists as well as radiology fellows and residents worldwide have found it to be a platform rich with information and opportunity. Twitter allows information and media to be sent instantly throughout the world. We encourage those in the radiology world not yet or barely using Twitter to get started or more involved in this useful and popular social media platform.
To describe and compare early with late vasopressor commencement in emergency department (ED) patients with sepsis and hypotension.

This is a sub-study of the ARISE FLUIDS observational study conducted in 70 EDs in Australia and New Zealand. Adults with suspected sepsis and hypotension who received a vasopressor infusion in the first 24 h after ED presentation were included. 'Early' was defined as vasopressor commenced within 2 h from a) sepsis recognition, or b) triage.

177 patients (mean age 68 years) received vasopressors and had a lactate of 3.0 (IQR 2.0-4.9) mmol/L and APACHE II score of 17.8 (SD 6.3). 110 (62%) received a single agent vasopressor with noradrenaline being the most common (n = 74) and 67 (38%) received multiple vasopressors, most commonly metaraminol then noradrenaline (20.3%, n = 36). One-third (34.7%, n = 62) had vasopressors started via a peripheral line. Vasopressors were started within 2 h of sepsis recognition in 74 patients and within 2 h of triage in 24 patients. Both early groups had a higher lactate (3.5 vs. 2.9mmol/L and 5.0 vs. 2.9mmol/L, both p <0.05) and received lower fluid volumes prior to vasopressor commencement (2.0 vs. 2.85 L and 1.55 vs. 2.4 L, both p <0.001), compared to patients receiving vasopressors later. No differences in duration of vasopressor infusion, need for organ support or in-hospital mortality were found.

Early vasopressor commencement was associated with the administration of lower intravenous fluid volumes but not with duration of vasopressor use, organ support or mortality. Large prospective studies addressing this question are required.
Early vasopressor commencement was associated with the administration of lower intravenous fluid volumes but not with duration of vasopressor use, organ support or mortality. Large prospective studies addressing this question are required.
The study examined sialylation changes for their potential predictive value in assessment of imatinib mesylate (IM) resistance, alone and/or with BCR-ABL1 transcript variants among chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) cases.

A total of 98 CML cases (un-treated cases, IM non-responders and IM responders) were enrolled in the study. Total sialic acid (TSA) and total protein (TP) levels were estimated spectrophotometrically, the expression profiles of BCR-ABL1, ST3GAL1 and ST3GAL2 were evaluated using qRT-PCR assays and BCR-ABL1 transcript variants were identified through subjecting PCR products to agarose gel electrophoresis.

The results manifested increase in e14a2 transcript and decrease in co-expression of both transcripts (e13a2 and e14a2) in IM non-responders than un-treated CML cases. Notably, TSA/TP ratio was higher, whereas ST3GAL1 and ST3GAL2 expressions were lower in un-treated CML cases and IM non-responders as against IM responders. Further, ST3GAL2 expression was lower in un-treated CML cases than IM non-responders. Receiver operating characteristic curves also proved their discriminatory efficiencies. Proteasome assay Decisively, the rise in TSA levels and the fall in ST3GAL1 and ST3GAL2 levels were evidently related to CML progression and clinical indicators of treatment failure (high BCR-ABL1 ratio, high WBC count, high platelet count and low Hb levels). The alterations in TSA, ST3GAL1 and ST3GAL2 levels were remarkably associated with each other.

The altered levels of TSA, ST3GAL1 and ST3GAL2 are, to a significant extent, associated with IM resistance in CML, which have clinical relevance in treatment monitoring and IM resistance treatment.
The altered levels of TSA, ST3GAL1 and ST3GAL2 are, to a significant extent, associated with IM resistance in CML, which have clinical relevance in treatment monitoring and IM resistance treatment.
To assess the time-efficiency of a designated operating room (OR) workflow in the introduction of femtosecond laser-assisted cataract surgery (FLACS, LenSx, Alcon®). The study was carried out in a public hospital a with high-volume of procedures.

We performed this prospective, controlled, surgical intervention study in the ophthalmology department of a Spanish tertiary referral public hospital. A total of 167 eyes were enrolled, including 62 eyes undergoing conventional phacoemulsification surgery. In phase I, patients were assigned either to FLACS-I (n=63) or conventional phacoemulsification surgery (n=62). One surgeon operated the femtosecond laser, and another completed the procedure, while a third performed conventional phacoemulsification. In the second phase (FLACS-II), all the surgeries were FLACS (n=42). One surgeon performed the FLACS procedure, and two different surgeons completed the surgeries in separate ORs. Surgical and turnover times of all the patients were recorded.

Preparation time was statistically significantly lower in FLACS-I and FLACS-II (P<0.
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