Heuristic bias in perception of medical students relating to out-of-hospital cardiac arrests.

Aim: The aim of this study was to assess the perceptions of medical students with respect to out-of-hospital cardiac arrests focusing on the frequency and survival and to identify potential problems in resuscitation education.

Methods: Fourth-year medical students in a six-year undergraduate educational system were asked to guess the number of out-of-hospital cardiac arrests with cardiac etiology per year in Japan, related data such as the one-month survival rate from out-of-hospital cardiac arrests with cardiac etiology and the number of deaths from traffic accidents for comparison. The guesses of students were compared with actual statistical data.

A case series of the dynamics of lipid mediators in patients with sepsis.

Background: Bioactive lipid mediators play a crucial role during infection. Previously, we showed the expression level of mRNA in septic patients was lower than in healthy controls.

Case Presentation: Four patients with a Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) score of <7 recovered from sepsis.

[Clinical microbiological investigation of vancomycin intermediate Staphylococcus aureus during glycopeptide therapy].

We isolated three strains of vancomycin intermediate Staphylococcus aureus (VISA) from a blood sample of a patient with infective endocarditis (VISA-1), postoperative pneumonia sputum (VISA-2), and pyogenic spondylitis blood sample (VISA-3). These VISA strains did not carry vanA, vanB, vanC1, or vanC2/C3 genes. Cell wall thickening was observed.