Abstract Background Sepsis is a life-threatening organ dysfunction and major healthcare burden worldwide. Although sepsis medical emergency that requires immediate management, screening for the occurrence of difficult. Herein, we propose deep learning-based model (DLM) using electrocardiography (ECG). Methods This retrospective cohort study included 46,017 patients who were admitted to two hosp...

High vaginal swabs (HVS) of 1792 expectant mothers were sent for culture at the time of delivery, prior to first vaginal examination. The newborns were followed-up for development of superficial or deep infections. Appropriate cultures of the babies who developed infections were sent. Bacterial growth of predominantly gram-ve organisms was obtained in 1026 (57%) HVS. Infection developed in 48 (...

BACKGROUND Sepsis is one of the leading causes of mortality among children worldwide. Unfortunately, however, reliable evidence was insufficient in pediatric sepsis and many aspects in clinical practice actually depend on expert consensus and some evidence in adult sepsis. More recent findings have given us deep insights into pediatric sepsis since the publication of the Surviving Sepsis Campai...

A new technique is described for dressing of surgical wounds in total knee arthroplasty that is a combination of a semi-permeable dressing and suction drainage. This technique has been used in 100 consecutive cases and drainage was collected in 92. The average volume was 198 ml (range 30 to 850 ml). There was no superficial or deep sepsis. Haematoma formation causing moderate soft tissue tensio...

The lack of interpretability remains a key barrier to the adoption of deep models in many applications. In this work, we explicitly regularize deep models so human users might step through the process behind their predictions in little time. Specifically, we train deep time-series models so their classprobability predictions have high accuracy while being closely modeled by decision trees with ...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the impact of preoperative sepsis on risk of postoperative arterial and venous thromboses. DESIGN Prospective cohort study using the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program database of the American College of Surgeons (ACS-NSQIP). SETTING Inpatient and outpatient procedures in 374 hospitals of all types across the United States, 2005-12. PARTICIPANTS 2,305,380...

BACKGROUND We sought to determine the associations between baseline chronic medical conditions and future risk of sepsis. METHODS Longitudinal cohort study using the 30,239 community-dwelling participants of the REGARDS cohort. We determined associations between baseline chronic medical conditions and incident sepsis episodes, defined as hospitalization for an infection with the presence of i...

A 14-year-old patient presented with bilateral pneumonia and pleural effusions, septic arthritis of the hip, deep venous thrombosis, and pulmonary thromboembolism. Methicillin-sensitive Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) containing the Panton Valentine Leukocidin (PVL) genes was isolated. Contraindication to anticoagulation prompted inferior vena cava filter placement. He completed 4 weeks of tr...

Contemporary management of Grade IIIB open tibial fractures has evolved to include intravenous antibiotics, thorough interval surgical debridement, rigid skeletal fixation, early local or free tissue myoplasty, and liberal use of autogenous bone graft beneath a clean, stable wound. External fixation has been the skeletal stabilization of choice with the lowest reported deep sepsis rates. Pin tr...