Organ Donor Cards in Resuscitation Room Patients.

Background: The percentage of organ donors among the German population is very low, and the supply of organs does not meet the demand. Relatively few organ explantations are performed in Germany, compared to other countries. The central element leading up to organ explantation is the donor's consent.

Measuring the predictability of life outcomes with a scientific mass collaboration.

How predictable are life trajectories? We investigated this question with a scientific mass collaboration using the common task method; 160 teams built predictive models for six life outcomes using data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, a high-quality birth cohort study. Despite using a rich dataset and applying machine-learning methods optimized for prediction, the best predictions were not very accurate and were only slightly better than those from a simple benchmark model. Within each outcome, prediction error was strongly associated with the family being predicted and weakly associated with the technique used to generate the prediction.

Disintermediating your friends: How online dating in the United States displaces other ways of meeting.

We present data from a nationally representative 2017 survey of American adults. For heterosexual couples in the United States, meeting online has become the most popular way couples meet, eclipsing meeting through friends for the first time around 2013. Moreover, among the couples who meet online, the proportion who have met through the mediation of third persons has declined over time.

Using chloroprocaine for spinal anaesthesia in outpatient knee-arthroscopy results in earlier discharge and improved operating room efficiency compared to mepivacaine and prilocaine.

Purpose: Knee arthroscopies are regularly carried out in an outpatient setting. The purpose of this retrospective analysis was to investigate the impact of different local anaesthetics for spinal anaesthesia on operating room efficiency (perioperative process times) and postoperative recovery. This study aims to determine the optimal LA for SPA in patients undergoing knee arthroscopy at a day-surgery centre.

[Wasp-sting-induced pheochromozytoma crisis with stress-related cardiomyopathy (Takotsubo)].

This article presents the case of a patient with sudden onset of heart failure caused by transient severe left ventricular dysfunction with the typical pattern of stress-induced cardiomyopathy (takotsubo cardiomyopathy) who had wasp sting a few hours before admission in the presence of a previously asymptomatic pheochromocytoma. There seems to be correlation between the wasp-venom-induced pheochomocytoma crisis and acute onset of heart failure. Once pheocromocytoma is diagnosed, medical therapy is preferable before surgical treatment.