Peritoneal dialysis (PD) has recently been established as a treatment option for renal replacement therapy (RRT) in patients with acute kidney injury (AKI). Its efficacy in providing fluid and small solute removal has also been demonstrated in clinical trials and is equivalent to hemodialysis (HD). However, effect of RRT modality on renal recovery after AKI remains a controversy. Moreover, the ...

BACKGROUND It was previously known that anuric acute kidney injury (AKI) is uncommon and its occurrence suggests complete ureteral obstruction, shock, or a major vascular event. As the epidemiology of AKI has significantly changed over the past decade, it is possible that the incidence, etiology, or clinical characteristics of anuric AKI have also changed. METHODS A prospective cohort study w...

This paper presents an efficient trajectory prediction algorithm that has been developed to improve the performance of future collision avoidance and detection systems. The main idea is to embed the inferred intention information of surrounding agents into their estimated reachability sets to obtain a probabilistic description of their future paths. More specifically, the proposed approach comb...

This paper proposes a Deterministic Kinodynamic Planning approach (DKP for short) offering the degree of generality of randomized techniques for two wheeled robots, such as RRT, but also guarantees on the computation time. This approach combines a global path planner based on an A∗-like algorithm, and a local motion planner based on spline optimization techniques. Implementation details and com...

Social Desirability Bias (SDB) is the tendency in respondents to answer questions untruthfully in the hope of giving good impression to others. SDB occurs when the survey question is highly sensitive or personal, and responses cause sample statistics to systematically over-or underestimate corresponding population parameters. The Randomized Response Technique (RRT) is one of several methods to ...

Rapid response teams (RRT) emerged in 1990 with the goals of improving the identification of ward patients with clinical deterioration and offering, based on this identification, early intervention.(1-3) An RRT is activated according to previously defined triggers, traditionally vital signs, by themselves or as part of aggregated scores, other clinical changes, such as seizures, or even by a su...

Path planners based on basic rapidly-exploring random trees (RRTs) are quick and efficient, thus favourable for real-time robot path planning, but almost-surely suboptimal. In contrast, the optimal RRT (RRT*) converges to solution, may be expensive in practice. Recent work has focused accelerating RRT*'s convergence rate. The most successful strategies informed sampling, optimisation, a combina...

BACKGROUND Some studies have suggested that early institution of renal replacement therapy (RRT) might be associated with improved outcomes in patients with acute renal failure (ARF). STUDY DESIGN A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials and cohort comparative studies to assess the effect of early RRT on mortality in patients with ARF. SETTING & POPULATION Hospi...

OBJECTIVES To describe the frequency and hospital mortality of problems (diagnoses) encountered by a rapid response team (RRT), and to identify the most common diagnoses for RRT triggers and for treating units. DESIGN For each RRT event in 2015 at a tertiary hospital for adults, we chose the diagnosis that best explained the RRT event from a pre-defined list after reviewing relevant test resu...

When to commence renal replacement therapy (RRT) in the critically ill remains an unresolved issue. The study by Thakar and colleagues sheds some light on current practice through an international survey, demonstrating physicians' inclination to start RRT earlier when the severity of disease is higher. However, Clec'h and co-workers investigated the effect of RRT on hospital survival by perform...