Publications by authors named "F M Rosmalen"
Background: More self-efficacy leads to greater confidence in one's ability to perform actions to achieve treatment goals. Therefore, self-efficacy may affect patient recovery and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) after ICU discharge.
Aim: In a cohort of mechanically ventilated COVID-19 survivors, we examined the associations between self-efficacy at 3 months and HRQoL at 3, 12 and 24 months after discharge.
Monitoring of myocardial injury by serial measurements of QRS area and T area: The MaastrICCht cohort.
Ann Noninvasive Electrocardiol
September 2024
Background: Manually derived electrocardiographic (ECG) parameters were not associated with mortality in mechanically ventilated COVID-19 patients in earlier studies, while increased high-sensitivity cardiac troponin-T (hs-cTnT) and N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) were. To provide evidence for vectorcardiography (VCG) measures as potential cardiac monitoring tool, we investigated VCG trajectories during critical illness.
Methods: All mechanically ventilated COVID-19 patients were included in the Maastricht Intensive Care Covid Cohort between March 2020 and October 2021.
Article Synopsis
- The study focuses on improving the detection of periprocedural myocardial infarction (PMI) after coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) by analyzing the changes in cardiac biomarker CK-MB over time.
- It involved 635 patients with 1589 CK-MB measurements, where the majority showed no signs of PMI, pinpointing key factors like patient sex and surgical specifics that influence CK-MB levels.
- A web-based application was developed to model CK-MB kinetics; the model achieved notable diagnostic accuracy, indicating its potential for wider use in monitoring and validating other cardiac biomarkers.