Publications by authors named "A L Bardou"
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- The study focused on determining how common post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is among women who have experienced intimate partner violence (IPV) at the 'Maison des Femmes' and two municipal health centers.
- It utilized a mixed-methods approach, collecting quantitative data through questionnaires and qualitative insights via interviews from participants.
- Results indicated that about 60% of surveyed women were diagnosed with PTSD, with many noting negative health self-assessments and expressing positive views about the specialized care received at the MdF.
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- Ventricular Fibrillation is a leading cause of sudden cardiac death, and there is limited understanding of how ventricular tachycardia (VT) transitions into it.
- Clinical studies on Class III antiarrhythmic drugs aimed at preventing VT have resulted in an alarming number of deaths, highlighting the potential risks of these treatments.
- Simulations reveal that while VT can be suppressed regardless of the reentry phase, the success heavily relies on the drug's duration of action, indicating that some antiarrhythmic drugs may exacerbate the condition rather than help, with outcomes varying significantly based on the action potential duration.
The authors report a preliminary series assessing the feasibility of duodenal stenting using a surgical approach. The study included 16 patients with a malignant duodenal outlet obstruction for whom a biliaryobstruction necessitated a laparotomyor following an endoscopic stenting failure. The stent was efficient in 15 patients with a complete relieve of obstruction.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis paper presents a new approach for cardiac beat interpretation, based on a direct integration between a model and observed ECG signals. Physiological knowledge is represented by means of a semi-quantitative model of the cardiac electrical activity. The interpretation of cardiac beats is formalized as an optimization problem, by minimizing an error function defined between the model's output and the observations.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMuch research effort has been directed in different physiological contexts towards describing realistic behaviors with differential equations. One observes obviously that more state-variables give the model more accuracy. Unfortunately, the computational cost involved is higher.
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