Publications by authors named "C J Van den Oord"
Background: Current guidelines discourage prophylactic plasma use in non-bleeding patients. This study assesses global plasma transfusion practices in the intensive care unit (ICU) and their alignment with current guidelines.
Study Design And Methods: This was a sub-study of an international, prospective, observational cohort.
Regional heterothermy describes when body regions differ in temperature, which can have important ramifications for performance because most biological processes are temperature dependent. However, the relationship between regional heterothermy and environmental temperature is not well known, particularly for ectotherms. The relationship between environmental heterogeneity and regional heterothermy might also yield insight into how the latter is regulated.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe introduce ACEpotentials.jl, a Julia-language software package that constructs interatomic potentials from quantum mechanical reference data using the Atomic Cluster Expansion [R. Drautz, Phys.
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- RBC transfusions are a frequent intervention in ICUs, yet there's a gap in understanding how hemoglobin (Hb) thresholds for transfusion are applied in practice.
- An international study analyzed transfusion practices in 233 ICUs across 30 countries, including 3,643 adult patients from March 2019 to October 2022.
- Of the patients studied, 25% received RBC transfusions, with variations in transfusion rates observed across different ICUs, countries, and continents, highlighting diverse clinical practices.
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- Thrombocytopenia (low platelets) and bleeding are common problems for patients on a special machine called VA ECMO that helps with heart and lung issues.
- A study looked at 419 patients and found that almost all of them developed low platelets, with many having severe cases, and more than half needed platelet transfusions.
- The research showed that having severe low platelets makes it much more likely to need a platelet transfusion, especially if the patient is also bleeding.