Publications by authors named "K G Fields"
Aims: Community-level childhood experiences make up important aspects of early life that are associated with long-term health outcomes. However, to date, there have been no validated measures that assess community-level experiences during childhood. Thus, we aimed to develop and validate a measure that would assess community-level experiences associated with both risk and resilience.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To evaluate the comparative efficacy of two of the most commonly used second-line uterotonics-methylergonovine maleate and carboprost tromethamine.
Methods: We conducted a double-blind randomized trial at two large academic perinatal centers in patients undergoing nonemergency cesarean delivery with uterine atony refractory to oxytocin, as diagnosed by the operating obstetrician. The intervention included administration of a single dose of intramuscular methylergonovine or carboprost intraoperatively at diagnosis.
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- The study aims to identify predictors of atrial fibrillation after cardiac surgery (AFACS) to develop better prediction models as part of the PARADISE project.
- It used a two-stage Delphi consensus process involving 15 international experts from various cardiac and nursing fields to generate and refine a list of candidate predictors.
- The final list includes 72 predictors categorized into demographics, comorbidities, vital signs, intraoperative factors, postoperative investigations, and interventions, highlighting both patient-related and surgical factors.
In Houston, Texas, nitrogen dioxide (NO) air pollution disproportionately affects Black, Latinx, and Asian communities, and high ozone (O) days are frequent. There is limited knowledge of how NO inequalities vary in urban air quality contexts, in part from the lack of time-varying neighborhood-level NO measurements. First, we demonstrate that daily TROPOspheric Monitoring Instrument (TROPOMI) NO tropospheric vertical column densities (TVCDs) resolve a major portion of census tract-scale NO inequalities in Houston, comparing NO inequalities based on TROPOMI TVCDs and spatiotemporally coincident airborne remote sensing (250 m × 560 m) from the NASA TRacking Aerosol Convection ExpeRiment-Air Quality (TRACER-AQ).
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