All Enabling Technology Is Not Created Equal: Comparing Outcomes of Computer-Assisted Fluoroscopic Navigation Versus Robotic-Assisted Total Hip Arthroplasty.

Background: Computer-assisted fluoroscopic navigation and robotic technologies aim to optimize implant placement and alignment in primary total hip arthroplasty (THA) to improve patient outcomes. This study uses a retrospective hospital billing database covering 1,300 hospitals to compare the clinical and economic effect of these technologies.

Methods: The study compared patients undergoing THA with robotic versus computer-assisted fluoroscopic navigation technologies between January 1, 2016, and September 30, 2021, using the Premier Healthcare Database.

Annotated interictal discharges in intracranial EEG sleep data and related machine learning detection scheme.

Interictal epileptiform discharges (IEDs) such as spikes and sharp waves represent pathological electrophysiological activities occurring in epilepsy patients between seizures. IEDs occur preferentially during non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep and are associated with impaired memory and cognition. Despite growing interest, most studies involving IED detections rely on visual annotations or employ simple amplitude threshold approaches.

Association of Prior Antithrombotic Drug Use with 90-Day Mortality After Intracerebral Hemorrhage.

Purpose: To estimate the strength of association between use of antithrombotics (AT) drugs with survival after spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage (s-ICH) comparing oral anticoagulant (OAC) or platelet antiaggregants (PA) with no AT use and in active comparator analyses OAC vs PA, direct oral anticoagulant (DOAC) vs vitamin K antagonist (VKA), and clopidogrel vs aspirin.

Patients And Methods: We identified patients ≥55 years with a first-ever s-ICH between 2015 and 2018 in Southern Denmark (population 1.2 million).