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Assessing perioperative risk is essential for surgical decision-making. Our study compares the accuracy of comorbidity indices to predict morbidity and mortality.

Analyzing the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program, 16 major procedures were identified and American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA), Charlson Comorbidity Index and modified Frailty Index were calculated. We fit models with each comorbidity index for prediction of morbidity, mortality, and prolonged length of stay (pLOS). Decision Curve Analysis determined the effectiveness of each model.

Of 650,437 patients, 11.7%, 6.0%, 17.0% and 0.75% experienced any, major complication, pLOS, and mortality, respectively. Each index was an independent predictor of morbidity, mortality, and pLOS (p<0.05). While the indices performed similarly for morbidity and pLOS, ASA demonstrated greater net benefit for threshold probabilities of 1-5% for mortality.

Models including readily available factors (age, sex) already provide a robust estimation of perioperative morbidity and mortality, even without considering comorbidity indices. All comorbidity indices show similar accuracy for prediction of morbidity and pLOS, while ASA, the score easiest to calculate, performs best in prediction of mortality.
Models including readily available factors (age, sex) already provide a robust estimation of perioperative morbidity and mortality, even without considering comorbidity indices. All comorbidity indices show similar accuracy for prediction of morbidity and pLOS, while ASA, the score easiest to calculate, performs best in prediction of mortality.The fundamental hypothesis of substrate mapping for scar-mediated ventricular tachycardia is that surrogates of the isthmus can be identified and targeted with ablation during sinus rhythm. These surrogates include electrocardiographic indications for electric discontinuity such as fractionation, split, late, and long potentials, also evident as sites displaying activation slowing. However, ablation strategies targeting these surrogates during sinus rhythm have resulted in unacceptably high rates of clinical failures, promoting the idea that a more widespread ablation may be required. High-resolution mapping technologies provide an opportunity to examine the substrate at greater detail; however, their use has not yet translated into improved clinical outcomes. This may be related to ongoing efforts to examine the same surrogates at higher resolution instead of using high-resolution technologies for discovering new and potentially more specific surrogates. Bozitinib cell line This article reviews common limitations and pitfalls of substrate mapping and discusses new opportunities for high-resolution mapping to increase the accuracy of substrate mapping 1) multielectrode mapping catheters provide an opportunity to rapidly examine the substrate during electrophysiological conditions that more closely simulate ventricular tachycardia by means of activation from different directions and coupling intervals; 2) electrogram annotation methods based on the maximal negative derivative of the extracellular potential or maximal voltage are often inaccurate in nonuniform anisotropic tissue. The use of multielectrode catheters may improve the accuracy of electrogram annotation by using spatiotemporal dispersion of single-beat acquisitions and a localized indifferent reference; and 3) resetting and entrainment remain important methods for studying re-entry for and guiding ablation.
This study sought to determine whether a novel impedance thermal imaging system (ITIS) provides an impedance measurement that is better correlated with lesion dimensions than circuit impedance during radiofrequency (RF) ablation.

A 5- to 10-Ω impedance drop is clinically used to corroborate an effective RF ablation lesion. However, the contribution of local tissue heating to circuit impedance change is small and dependent on the local environment of the catheter and placement of the grounding patch.

ITIS uses ablation catheter and skin electrodes to perform 4-terminal impedance measurements with separate voltage sensing and current injection electrode pairs. Seven sheep underwent endocardial ventricular irrigated RF ablation at 40W for 60 s. ITIS impedance and circuit impedance were both measured throughout ablation. When the sheep were sacrificed, ablation lesions were cut along their long axis; the depth, width, and surface area of the cut surface were measured.

A total of 68 RF ablations were performed, with a median depth of 3.5mm (interquartile range [IQR] 2.1 to 4.9mm), width of 8.3mm (IQR 5.7 to 10.8mm), and surface area of 23.8mm
(IQR 9.3 to 43.0mm
). ITIS impedance change had good correlation with lesion depth, width, and surface area (R=0.76, R=0.87, and R=0.87, respectively); and superior to circuit impedance for lesion depth, width, and surface area (p=0.0018, p=0.0004, and p=0.0001, respectively).

By optimizing the current path and using 4-terminal impedance measurement during RF ablation, the contribution of tissue temperature changes to measured impedance is better standardized to provide a more reliable measure than conventional ablation circuit impedance.
By optimizing the current path and using 4-terminal impedance measurement during RF ablation, the contribution of tissue temperature changes to measured impedance is better standardized to provide a more reliable measure than conventional ablation circuit impedance.
This pilot study aimed to develop a regression model to estimate the excess post-exercise oxygen consumption (EPOC) of Korean adults using various easy-to-measure dependent variables.

The EPOC and dependent variables for its estimation (e.g., sex, age, height, weight, body mass index, fat-free mass [FFM], fat mass, % body fat, and heart rate_sum [HR_sum]) were measured in 75 healthy adults ( 31 males, 44 females). Statistical analysis was performed to develop an EPOC estimation regression model using the stepwise regression method.

We confirmed that FFM and HR_sum were important variables in the EPOC regression models of various exercise types. The explanatory power and standard errors of estimates (SEE) for EPOC of each exercise type were as follows the continuous exercise (CEx) regression model was 86.3% (R2) and 85.9% (adjusted R2), and the mean SEE was 11.73 kcal, interval exercise (IEx) regression model was 83.1% (R2) and 82.6% (adjusted R2), while the mean SEE was 13.68 kcal, and the accumulation of short-duration exercise (AEx) regression models was 91.
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