Idiopathic ventricular fibrillation is defined as cardiac arrest in the absence of structural heart disease and other identifiable causes of ventricular fibrillation. It occurs in 1% to 9% of survivors of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. The mean age of these patients is 35 to 40 years, and 70% to 75% are male. The pathogenesis is unknown; psychosocial factors may play a role. Baseline clinical ...

Little is known about the use of central nervous system (CNS) and musculoskeletal (MS) medications in Operation Iraqi Freedom/Operation Enduring Freedom (OIF/OEF) veterans with blast-related injuries. A group of 133 OIF/OEF veterans with blast-related injuries was identified from trauma registries and verified with electronic medical records. Use of multiple CNS and MS medications was common an...

1. Relevance to the call for proposals: The health effect of alcohol consumption pattern (moderate and binge drinking) is of significant public health relevance because alcohol consumption in Norway and other countries in Northern Europe have been increasing since 2000. Furthermore, the consumption pattern is changing from binge drinking towards moderate regular intake. Norway is in a fortunate...

2014 Patient registries represent an important platform across geographical areas that can provide critical epidemiological data and information on the effectiveness of therapies or devices within a given disease group. Neurological patient registries represent an exciting opportunity to directly impact patient care and clinical trial readiness. Neurological registries also aid in the formulati...

Web services are the new paradigm for distributed computing. They have much to offer towards interoperability of applications and integration of large scale distributed systems. To make Web services accessible to users, service providers use Web service registries to publish them. Current infrastructure of registries requires replication of all Web service publications in all Universal Business...