Intravenous vs. intraosseous vascular access during out-of-hospital cardiac arrest - protocol for a randomised clinical trial.

Objective: During cardiac arrest, current guidelines recommend attempting intravenous access first and to consider intraosseous access if intravenous access is unsuccessful or impossible. However, these recommendations are only based on very low-certainty evidence. Therefore, the "Intravenous vs Intraosseous Vascular Access During Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest" (IVIO) trial aims to determine whether there is a difference in patient outcomes depending on the type of vascular access attempted during out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.

Effect of calcium vs. placebo on long-term outcomes in patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.

Objective: The Calcium for Out-of-hospital Cardiac Arrest (COCA) trial was a randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind trial of calcium for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. The primary and secondary outcomes have been reported previously. This article describes the long-term outcomes of the trial.

Effect of Intravenous or Intraosseous Calcium vs Saline on Return of Spontaneous Circulation in Adults With Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

Importance: It is unclear whether administration of calcium has a beneficial effect in patients with cardiac arrest.

Objective: To determine whether administration of calcium during out-of-hospital cardiac arrest improves return of spontaneous circulation in adults.

Design, Setting, And Participants: This double-blind, placebo-controlled randomized clinical trial included 397 adult patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest and was conducted in the Central Denmark Region between January 20, 2020, and April 15, 2021.

The association between renal function and structural parameters: a pig study.

Background: The objective was to investigate the association between renal structural parameters and renal function. The structural parameters were renal cortical volume, total renal volume, number of glomeruli, and total glomerular volume, and renal function was expressed by the single kidney GFR (skGFR). Investigations were performed using both healthy and chronically diseased kidneys.

Normal differential renal function does not indicate a normal kidney after partial ureteropelvic obstruction and subsequent relief in 2-week-old piglets.

Purpose: We investigated the functional consequences of relieving ureteric obstruction in young pigs with experimental hydronephrosis (HN) induced by partial unilateral ureteropelvic obstruction.

Materials And Methods: Three groups of animals were followed from the age of 2 weeks to the age of 14 weeks: Eight animals had severe or grades 3-4 HN throughout the study. Six animals had relief of the obstruction after 4 weeks.

Kidney biopsies can be used for estimations of glomerular number and volume: a pig study.

In this study, we wanted to evaluate the use of kidney biopsies for estimation of N(glom) and V(glom) in both healthy and chronically diseased kidneys. Danish Landrace pigs with mean weight of 29 kg (range: 25-35 kg) were either subjected to unilateral ureteral obstruction (UUO) or non-obstruction (healthy). N(glom) and V(glom) was estimated by design-based methods using biopsies, N(glom)(biopsy) and V(glom)(biopsy).

Reproducibility and repeatability of differential renal function in 4-week-old piglets.

Background: Congenital obstructive renal disease often requires a decision early in the child's life on whether or not surgery is required. Differential renal function (DRF) calculated from the renogram provides important information for the correct decision in this process. A recent publication cast doubt as to the reliability of the renogram in providing DRF in the young child.

Different strategies for MRI measurements of renal cortical volume.

Purpose: First, to measure renal cortical volume (Vc) using different MRI methods combined with a semiautomatic segmentation method. Second, to compare MRI measurements of Vc using the semiautomatic segmentation method with a manual segmentation method. Third, to evaluate the reproducibility of Vc measurements.

Validation of quantitative BOLD MRI measurements in kidney: application to unilateral ureteral obstruction.

Background: Blood oxygenation level dependent (BOLD) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) provides a measure of deoxyhemoglobin content and therefore an indirect measure of the partial oxygen pressure (pO(2)). The main purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between the apparent relaxation rate (R2*) in the pig kidney by BOLD imaging and renal tissue pO(2) levels measured directly by oxygen-sensitive microelectrodes. Second, BOLD imaging was applied to kidneys in pigs subjected to acute unilateral ureteral obstruction (UUO) to examine whether this condition is associated with changes in intrarenal oxygenation.