A violin plot demonstrating listed chargemaster charges for RBC transfusion at 200 hospitals based on hospital ownership. A violin plot shows the volume of the samples at each point by width and lines correspond to the 25th percentile, median, and 75th percentile.
Objectives: This narrative review aims to analyze mechanisms underlying Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) integration, evaluate recent advances in signal acquisition and processing techniques, and assess AI-enhanced neural decoding strategies. The review identifies critical research gaps and examines emerging solutions across multiple domains of BCI-AI integration.
Methods: A narrative review was conducted using major biomedical and scientific databases including PubMed, Web of Science, IEEE Xplore, and Scopus (2014-2024).
Objectives: This study aimed to identify the rate at which the anterolateral tibial plafond is affected in comminuted suprasyndesmotic ankle fractures (AO/OTA 44C2) and to assess how its involvement affects clinical outcomes.
Antibiotic therapy is the primary treatment for infective endocarditis (IE), yet up to 50% of patients still require surgical intervention. However, surgical intervention carries significant risks of mortality and complications for IE patients, and there remains a lack of consensus on which preoperative characteristics of infective endocarditis have a substantial impact on patient prognosis. Particularly, some IE patients develop periannular abscesses, leading to more severe complications.
Training and Research Unit of Excellence, Blantyre, Malawi; School of Global and Public Health, Kamuzu University of Health Sciences, Blantyre, Malawi.
Background: In many sub-Saharan African countries, it is recommended that children with sickle cell anaemia receive malaria chemoprevention with monthly sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine or daily proguanil as the standard of care. However, the efficacy of these interventions is compromised by high-grade antifolate resistance of Plasmodium falciparum and poor adherence. We aimed to compare the efficacy of weekly dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine and monthly sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine for the prevention of clinical malaria in children with sickle cell anaemia in areas with high-grade sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine resistance of P falciparum in Uganda and Malawi.
Introduction: Silver sulfadiazine 1 % cream had historically been the mainstay initial treatment for scald wounds at our institution. However, we transitioned to using closed dressings of only petrolatum-impregnated 3 % bismuth tribromophenate gauze (Xeroform) for all partial-thickness burns. Xeroform adheres to the wound while allowing the exudates to drain and acts as a scaffold for re-epithelialization, after which it falls off without traumatizing the wound bed, theoretically allowing viable tissue to declare itself while requiring less frequent dressing changes.
