Impaired vascular endothelial function as a perioperative risk predictor - a prospective observational trial.

Background: In the recent years, an increasing number of patients with multiple comorbidities (e.g. coronary artery disease, diabetes, hypertension) presents to the operating room.

Evaluation Of CPR Quality Via Smartphone With A Video Livestream - A Study In A Metropolitan Area.

Background: Telephone-assisted cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is an effective and proven tool to improve patient survival and outcome after cardiac arrest, and is therefore recommended in international resuscitation guidelines. A new technology that provides the emergency medical services (EMS) dispatcher with a video livestream from a smartphone during telephone-assisted CPR was investigated to assess whether a correct judgment of CPR quality is feasible.

Material And Methods: After Ethics Committee approval, we conducted this study from August to September 2018 in the University Hospital of Cologne and its metropolitan area.

Video-assisted cardiopulmonary resuscitation via smartphone improves quality of resuscitation: A randomised controlled simulation trial.

Background: Despite intensive research, cardiac arrest remains a leading cause of death. It is of paramount importance to undertake every possible effort to increase the overall quality of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and improve patient outcome. CPR initiated by a bystander is one of the key factors in survival of such an incident.

Accuracy of automatic geolocalization of smartphone location during emergency calls - A pilot study.

Introduction: Widespread use of smartphones allows automatic geolocalization (i.e., transmission of location data) in countless apps.

Novel Navigated Ultrasound Compared With Conventional Ultrasound for Vascular Access—a Prospective Study in a Gel Phantom Model.

Objectives: The authors hypothesized that, compared with conventional ultrasound (CUS), the use of a novel navigated ultrasound (NUS) technology would increase success rates and decrease performance times of vascular access procedures in a gel phantom model.

Design: A prospective, randomized, crossover study.

Setting: A university Hospital.