Evaluation and management of trauma-induced coagulopathy has seen significant advances in the 21st century. Massive transfusion strategies favoring 1:1:1 ratios blood components1 or whole transfusion2 have increasingly become standard. Coagulopathy prediction tools3 viscoelastic hemostatic assays to quantify derangements4,5 are used anticipate guide therapies respectively. A focus on treating h...

BACKGROUND Acupuncture points and meridians are commonly believed to possess unique electrical properties. The experimental support for this claim is limited given the technical and methodological shortcomings of prior studies. Recent studies indicate a correspondence between acupuncture meridians and connective tissue planes. We hypothesized that segments of acupuncture meridians that are asso...

This study examined the influence of age, gender and race on nitric oxide (NO) release over acupuncture points, meridian without acupoint, and non-meridian regions of the Pericardium (PC) and Bladder (BL) meridian as well as aging on LU meridian in 61 healthy subjects. Biocapture tubes were attached to the skin surface, and total nitrite and nitrate was biocaptured and quantified using chemilum...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the efficacy and safety of Meridian-sinew Release therapy in Chinese patients with refractory active Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA). SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA Few studies focused on the effect of combination of Meridian-sinew Release therapy and Methotrexate (MTX) on refractory active RA of Chinese patients. METHODS Eighty refractory active rheumatoid arthritis patients we...

Multifocal visual evoked potentials (mfVEP) were recorded with three channels from 31 control subjects. A principal component analysis was applied to all local responses. The first principal component reversed polarity above and below the horizontal meridian in the case of the midline channel and across the vertical meridian in the case of the lateral channel. In addition, the first principal c...

Objective. In recent years, public health experts have concluded that the impact of osteoarthritis is equal in magnitude to that of cardiovascular disease. Osteoarthritis of the knee is prevalent in the elderly population; however, there are currently no effective treatments for this condition. In this study, we investigated the efficacy of "meridian-sinew release," a newly developed technique ...

Recently it has been demonstrated that saccades become different in size in the two eyes if a subject is adapted to anisometropic spectacles, which provide visual images of different magnitude to the two eyes. These nonconjugate adaptations adequately meet the requirements of those spectacles and, once acquired, they persist (with some reduction) even during monocular viewing. We now demonstrat...

The unsteady and nonlinear aerodynamic characteristics of the Meridian unmanned aerial system in the presence of wind shear are investigated using the recorded test data during flights in Polar Regions. The Meridian UAS is designed to provide an aerial platform for ice-penetrating radar developed for research in Polar Regions. The Meridian Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAS) is a 499 kg (1,100 pounds...

Meridian acupressure has been used as the one way recovering body conditions. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether meridian acupressure is effective on removing cortisol, norepinephrine, epinephrine, and lactic acid in blood following exercise. The subjects were 12 healthy male college students and data were processed using SPSS 12.0 statistical program and the results were calc...

This paper reports a multidisciplinary research between computer science and plastic and reconstructive surgery. In particular, a new method is proposed to unambiguously define a geometric partitioning of a large thoracic area including the breast mound. The new technique uses only well-defined anatomical points, defined and selected by surgeons. A simple sequence of geometric operations is per...