Publications by authors named "Hannah Schwarz"

Background: Training in communication skills between nursing and medical students during interprofessional paediatric emergency simulation training represents a significant aspect of safe patient care. Evidence highlights that poor communication in paediatric emergency scenarios jeopardises patient safety. Through realistic simulations, students practice the communication strategies of crisis resource management (CRM), such as "closed-loop communication", "speaking up", and "team time-out".

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Aim: There is limited evidence on trainees' and instructors' needs and perspectives concerning interprofessional simulation-based trainings. We aimed to study task distribution among team members, profession-specific learning effects and enhancing collaboration and competencies within medical teams.

Methods: This prospective study examined expectations and experiences of medical and nursing students during paediatric emergency training in a tertiary care centre with questionnaires before and after a training.

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Backgrounds: This study aimed to determine the best educational application of a respiratory function monitor and a video laryngoscope.

Methods: This study was a randomized controlled simulation-based trial, including 167 medical students. Participants had to execute ventilation and intubation maneuvers on a newborn manikin.

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Introduction: Preterm birth and cerebral hemorrhage have adverse effects on brain development. Alterations in regional brain size on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can be assessed using 2D biometrical analysis, an easily applicable technique showing good correlation with 3D brain volumes.

Methods: This retrospective study included 74 preterm neonates with intraventricular hemorrhage (IVH) born <32+0 weeks of gestation between 2011 and 2019.

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Parkinson's disease (PD) is a progressive neurological disorder marked by cardinal clinical symptoms such as rigor, tremor, and akinesia. Albeit a loss of dopaminergic neurons from the substantia nigra pars compacta is causative for the movement impairments found in patients, molecular reasoning for this loss is still incomplete. In recent years, triggering factor expressed on myeloid cells (TREM2) gained attention in the field of neurodegeneration as it could be associated with different neurodegenerative disorders.

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Background: Eye-tracking devices are an innovative tool to understand providers' attention during stressful medical tasks. The knowledge about what gaze behaviors improve (or harm) the quality of clinical care can substantially improve medical training. The aim of this study is to identify gaze behaviors that are related to the quality of pediatric resuscitation.

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Nephronophthisis-related ciliopathies (NPHP-RC) comprises a group of inherited kidney diseases, caused by mutations in genes encoding proteins localizing to primary cilia. NPHP-RC represents one of the most frequent monogenic causes of renal failure within the first three decades of life, but its molecular disease mechanisms remain unclear. Here, we identified biallelic ANKS6 mutations in two affected siblings with late-onset chronic kidney disease by whole-exome sequencing.

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Objective: To establish longitudinal reference values for cerebral ventricular size in the most vulnerable patients at risk for intraventricular hemorrhage (IVH) and posthemorrhagic ventricular dilatation (PHVD).

Study Design: This retrospective study included neurologically healthy preterm neonates born at 23-26 weeks of gestational age between September 2011 and April 2019. Patients were treated at 2 Austrian tertiary centers, Medical University of Vienna and Medical University of Innsbruck.

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Pathophysiological investigation of CNS-related diseases, such as epilepsy or neurodegenerative disorders, largely relies on histological studies on human post mortem tissue, tissue obtained by biopsy or resective surgery and on studies using disease models including animal models, heterologous expression systems or cell culture based approaches. However, in general it remains elusive to what extent results obtained in model systems can be directly translated to the human brain, calling for strategies allowing validation or even primary investigation in live human CNS tissue. In the work reported here, we prepared human organotypic slice cultures from access tissue of resective epilepsy surgery.

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