Publications by authors named "Somin Joo"
Objectives: This study was designed to compare individualized and conventional hyperglycemic thresholds for the risk of acute kidney injury (AKI) after cardiac surgery.
Design: This was an observational study.
Setting: The study took place in a single-center tertiary teaching hospital.
Article Synopsis
- A study analyzed over 373,000 sepsis patients in South Korea from 2011 to 2016 to assess common comorbidities and their effects on health outcomes.
- Results showed that 46.7% had hypertension, 23.6% diabetes, 7.4% liver cirrhosis, 13.7% chronic kidney disease, and 30.7% had cancer, with varying in-hospital mortality rates linked to these conditions.
- Hypertension was the most common comorbidity and was associated with higher survival rates, while liver cirrhosis, chronic kidney disease, and malignancy were significant risk factors for increased mortality in sepsis patients.
Background: High quality cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is one of the key elements of the survival chain in cardiac arrest. Audiovisual feedback of chest compressions have been suggested to be beneficial by increasing the quality of CPR in the simulated cardiac arrests.
Methods: A prospective before and after study was performed to investigate the effect of a real-time audiovisual feedback system on CPR quality during in-hospital cardiac arrest in intensive care units from November 2018 to February 2022.
Background: General anesthetic techniques can affect postoperative recovery. We compared the effect of propofol-based total intravenous anesthesia (TIVA) and desflurane anesthesia on postoperative recovery.
Methods: In this randomized trial, 150 patients undergoing robot-assisted or laparoscopic nephrectomy for renal cancer were randomly allocated to either the TIVA or desflurane anesthesia (DES) group.
Study Objective: The effect of perioperative body temperature derangement on postoperative delirium remains unclear. This study aimed to evaluate the association between intraoperative body temperature and postoperative delirium in patients having noncardiac surgery.
Design: Single-center retrospective observational study.
Objective: To investigate the opioid consumption and the healthcare resource utilization in patients with the intrathecal drug delivery system (IDDS) therapy and the comprehensive medical management (CMM) alone.
Design: A retrospective cohort study with a customized claims database.
Setting: In a university-based hospital.
Background: Living liver donation is generally considered safe, but donors may experience short- or long-term complications. The purpose of this study was to assess healthcare resource utilization after liver donation in living liver donors in comparison with the general population.
Methods: Outpatient or emergency department visits and hospital admissions were compared between living liver donors who underwent hepatic resection for living liver donation between 2004 and 2018 and the matched general population.