Publications by authors named "Fan Ting-Wei"

Background: Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) is a persistent global health challenge, owing, in part, to low rates of population CPR training. Smartphone applications have the potential to widely disseminate CPR basic training to a populace, but other studies have found multiple limitations in previously developed CPR guidance applications (CPR-GA). This study aims to use medical simulation to assess the relative CPR performance of novices using the 'Rescue Me CPR!' (RMC) app, a custom CPR-GA designed by this research team, to novices using 'PG-CPR!' (PGC), the most downloaded CPR-GA available in the USA, and to CPR certified medical personnel.

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Purpose: The purpose of the study is to determine the feasibility of using computed tomography-based texture analysis (CTTA) in differentiating between urothelial carcinomas (UC) of the bladder from micropapillary carcinomas (MPC) of the bladder.

Methods: Regions of interests (ROIs) of computerized tomography (CT) images of 33 MPCs and 33 UCs were manually segmented and saved. Custom MATLAB code was used to extract voxel information corresponding to the ROI.

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In August 1908, the Ministry of Civil Affairs of the Qing Dynasty established a pauper reformatory, attached to it was a lunatic asylum, which was the first of its kind set up by the Government. In December 1917, with the restructuring of the pauper reformatory, the asylum became an independent organization called asylum for the maniac which was jointly reorganized by Peping Union Medical College (PUMC) and the Bureau of Public Welfare and renamed it as Peiping Municipal Psychopathic Hospital, with Wei Yu-lin as the director. Led by Dr.

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Tsan Ting entered the Department of Psychology of Nanjing Central University in 1931 and graduated in 1935, then went to the private Peking Union Medical College for graduate studies, where he received specialized training in psychoanalysis. Later Tsan Ting stayed in the neurology and public health department and worked in the mental health outpatients in Peiping Established First Health Offices, private Beijing Yuying Secondary School, the Peking Renli Carpet Factory there he applied psychoanalysis to cure patients. In 1940, Tsan Ting left Peiping and went to Chongqing, where he became the head of Mental Health Section of the Central Health Academy.

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