Publications by authors named "M R Young Blood"
Background: Opioid-associated out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OA-OHCA) is a subset of cardiac arrests that could benefit from measures outside of standard Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS), such as naloxone.
Study Objectives: In this study, we sought to examine whether OHCA patients chosen for naloxone therapy by emergency medical services (EMS) clinicians in a system with high rates of opioid overdose would have increased rates of return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC) and survival to hospital discharge.
Methods: The study took place in an urban EMS system with a high prevalence of opioid overdose.
Our goal was to determine whether anthocyanin-producing species (red) use different photoprotective strategies to cope with excess light during fall senescence compared with non-anthocyanin-producing species (yellow). In a previous study, we found that a yellow species retained the photoprotective PsbS protein in late autumn, while a red species did not. Specifically, we tested the hypothesis that red species make less use of zeaxanthin and PsbS-mediated thermal dissipation, as they rely on anthocyanins for photoprotection.
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- Vascular complications (VCs) after extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) can lead to higher mortality rates, but late VCs occurring after hospital discharge have been less studied.
- In a review of 229 ECMO patients over two years, only 116 survived until discharge, and among them, 7.8% experienced late VCs with a median onset of 150 days post-discharge.
- The most common late VC was infection, with a significant number requiring urgent interventions, including lower extremity arterial revascularization or amputations, and the majority of these complications were associated with patients who had been treated with peripheral veno-arterial ECMO.