Publications by authors named "Yu-Hsiang Meng"
Study Objective: Carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning causes central nervous system toxicity resulting in delayed neurologic sequelae. This study aims to evaluate the risk of epilepsy in patients with a history of CO intoxication.
Methods: We conducted a retrospective population-based cohort study using the Taiwan National Health Insurance Research Database and enrolled patients with and without CO poisoning matched for age, sex, and index year in a 1:5 ratio, between 2000 and 2010.
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- The study aimed to evaluate how effective empiric antibiotics, based on hospital antibiograms, are in treating patients with bacteraemic sepsis in the emergency department.
- Researchers analyzed data from over 1,000 adult patients from February 2016 to December 2018, classifying them based on antibiotic efficacy determined by a 70% susceptibility threshold.
- Results indicated that using more appropriate antibiotics (≥70% OAS) was linked to lower in-hospital and 30-day mortality rates and a reduction in ICU stay by about 1.6 days.
Background: Targeted temperature management (TTM) has been reported to improve outcomes in in-hospital cardiac arrest (IHCA) patients but little has been investigated into the relationship between prognoses and the blood urea nitrogen to creatinine ratio (BCR).
Methods: A retrospective analysis of data from IHCA survivors treated with TTM between 2011 and 2018 was conducted based on the Research Patient Database Registry of the Partners HealthCare system in Boston. Serum laboratory data were measured during IHCA and within 24 hours after TTM completion.
Introduction: Lipopolysaccharide-binding protein (LBP) is widely reported as a biomarker to differentiate infected from non-infected patients. The diagnostic use of LBP for sepsis remains a matter of debate. We aimed to perform a systematic review and meta-analysis to assess the diagnostic accuracy of serum LBP for sepsis in adult patients.
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