Pre-arrest atrial fibrillation and neurological recovery after cardiac arrest among hospitalized patients: A retrospective cohort study.

Background: New-onset atrial fibrillation (AF) is associated with an increased risk of stroke in hospitalized patients with severe sepsis. Post-cardiac arrest patients experience conditions similar to sepsis. This study investigated whether pre-arrest AF is associated with poor neurological recovery following in-hospital cardiac arrest (IHCA).

Exploring foreign language anxiety and resting-state EEG alpha asymmetry.

Anxiety experienced when interacting in a foreign language hinders communication through detrimental behavioral, cognitive, and somatic effects. Despite its impact, there is limited research on how neural asymmetry relates to foreign language anxiety (FLA). While researchers have investigated FLA through brain imaging, there remains an absence of studies examining its correlation with frontal alpha asymmetry.

Occupational Therapists' Perspectives on Community Implementation of Interventions Unfamiliar to Older Adults.

Background And Objectives: There is an increasing push for broad implementation of evidence-based interventions (EBIs) targeting older adults. Successful delivery of EBIs in communities requires therapists to adhere to protocols and to be responsive to contextual factors. This study explored the real-world implementation of an EBI, the Multiple-component Cognitive Intervention using Simulated Everyday Tasks (MCI-SET) in Taiwan from therapists' perspectives on fidelity, challenges, and strategies for program delivery.

Prediction of Visual Acuity After Cataract Surgery by Deep Learning Methods Using Clinical Information and Color Fundus Photography.

Purpose: To examine the performance of deep-learning models that predicts the visual acuity after cataract surgery using preoperative clinical information and color fundus photography (CFP).

Methods: We retrospectively collected the age, sex, and logMAR preoperative best corrected visual acuity (preoperative-BCVA) and CFP from patients who underwent cataract surgeries from 2020 to 2021 at National Taiwan University Hospital. Feature extraction of CFP was performed using a pre-existing image classification model, Xception.

Interaction between chronic kidney disease and atrial fibrillation on incident stroke and all-cause mortality: Matched cohort study of 49,594 patients.

Background And Aims: The interaction between full-spectrum chronic kidney disease (CKD) and atrial fibrillation (AF) on ischemic stroke and all-cause mortality risk, particularly in stage 4 and 5 CKD, remains undetermined.

Methods: This matched cohort study identified incident AF patients using the International Classification of Disease codes and electrocardiograms from the Clinical Research Data Repository of China Medical University Hospital between 2003 and 2020. For each AF patient, we selected four controls without AF and matched them by age, sex, eGFR within 10 mL/min/1.