VALIDATION OF RISK SCORES FOR PREDICTING ATRIAL FIBRILLATION DETECTED AFTER STROKE BASED ON AN ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD ALGORITHM: A REGISTRY-CLAIMS-ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD LINKED DATA STUDY

BackgroundPoststroke atrial fibrillation (AF) screening aids decisions regarding the optimal secondary prevention strategies in patients with acute ischemic stroke (AIS).We used an electronic medical record (EMR) algorithm to identify AF in a cohort of AIS patients, which were used to validate eight risk scores for vista 5 vl5 predicting AF detecte

Objective(s): Pseudomonas aeruginosais a Gram-negative and aerobic rod bacterium that displays mucoid and non-mucoid phenotype.Mucoid strains secrete alginate, which is the main agent of biofilms in chronic P.aeruginosa infections, show high resistance to antibiotics; consequently, the biological disruption of mucoid P.aeruginosa biofilms is an att

Due to fire protection regulations, a minimum number of fire extinguishers must be available depending on the surface area of each building, industrial establishment or workplace.There is also a set of rules that establish where the fire extinguisher should be placed: always close to the points that are most likely to be affected by a fire and wher

Background.Donation after circulatory death (DCD) can increase the pool the beast sullivan supply of available organs for transplantation.This pilot study evaluates the implementation of a controlled DCD (cDCD) protocol using normothermic regional perfusion in Norway.Methods.Patients aged 16 to 60 years that are in coma with documented devastating