Introduction: Regional anaesthesia provides important clinical benefits to patients but is underutilised. A barrier to widespread adoption may be the focus of regional anaesthesia research on novel techniques rather than evaluating and optimising existing approaches. Research priorities in regional anaesthesia identified by anaesthetists have been published, but the views of patients, carers and other healthcare professionals have not been considered previously.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTo develop and test an NLP algorithm that accurately detects the presence of information reported from DXA scans containing femoral neck T-scores of the patients scanned. A rule-based NLP algorithm that iteratively built a collection of regular expressions in testing data consisting of 889 snippets of text pulled from DXA reports. This was manually checked by clinical experts to determine the proportion of manually verified annotations that contained T-score information detected by this algorithm called 'BoneScore'.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAmong persons with HIV (PWH), unhealthy alcohol use and polypharmacy contribute to bothersome symptoms (e.g., fatigue, dizziness, memory loss).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: Ultrasound-guided regional anesthesia (UGRA) relies on acquiring and interpreting an appropriate view of sonoanatomy. Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to aid this by applying a color overlay to key sonoanatomical structures.The primary aim was to determine whether an AI-generated color overlay was associated with a difference in participants' ability to identify an appropriate block view over a 2-month period after a standardized teaching session (as judged by a blinded assessor).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: COVID-19 has been associated with myocardial involvement in collegiate athletes. The first report from the Big Ten COVID-19 Cardiac Registry (Registry) was an ecological study that reported myocarditis in 37 of 1597 athletes (2.3%) based on local clinical diagnosis.
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