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Survival benefits of interventional radiology and surgical teams collaboration during primary trauma surveys: a single-centre retrospective cohort study

A team approach is essential for effective trauma management. Close collaboration between interventional radiologists and surgeons during the initial management of trauma patients is important for prompt and a...

Ichiro Okada, Toru Hifumi, Hisashi Yoneyama, Kazushige Inoue… in BMC Emergency Medicine (2024)

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Development and validation of a novel overhead method for anteroposterior radiographs of fractured rat femurs

We aimed to establish a new method of obtaining femur anteroposterior radiographs from live rats. We used five adult male Sprague–Dawley rats and created a femoral fracture model with an 8 mm segmental fragmen...

Yosuke Sato, Takashi Tagami, Toshio Akimoto, Toru Takiguchi… in Scientific Reports (2024)

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Association between pupillary examinations and prognosis in patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest who underwent extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation: a retrospective multicentre cohort study

In some cases of patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) who underwent extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation (ECPR), negative pupillary light reflex (PLR) and mydriasis upon hospital arrival...

Takuro Hamaguchi, Toru Takiguchi, Tomohisa Seki, Naoki Tominaga… in Annals of Intensive Care (2024)

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Ventilator management and risk of air leak syndrome in patients with SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia: a single-center, retrospective, observational study

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pneumonia is reportedly associated with air leak syndrome (ALS), including mediastinal emphysema and pneumothorax, and has a high mortality rate. In...

Nodoka Miyake, Yutaka Igarashi, Ryuta Nakae, Taiki Mizobuchi… in BMC Pulmonary Medicine (2023)

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A prehospital risk assessment tool predicts clinical outcomes in hospitalized patients with heat-related illness: a Japanese nationwide prospective observational study

We previously developed a risk assessment tool to predict outcomes after heat-related illness (J-ERATO score), which consists of six binary prehospital vital signs. We aimed to evaluate the ability of the scor...

Ryosuke Takegawa, Jun Kanda, Arino Yaguchi, Shoji Yokobori… in Scientific Reports (2023)

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Hyperfibrinolysis and fibrinolysis shutdown in patients with traumatic brain injury

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is associated with coagulation/fibrinolysis disorders. We retrospectively evaluated 61 TBI cases transported to hospital within 1 h post-injury. Levels of thrombin-antithrombin III...

Ryuta Nakae, Yasuo Murai, Takeshi Wada, Yu Fujiki, Takahiro Kanaya… in Scientific Reports (2022)

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Sequential organ failure assessment score as a predictor of the outcomes of patients hospitalized for classical or exertional heatstroke

Heatstroke is a life-threatening event that affects people worldwide. Currently, there are no established tools to predict the outcomes of heatstroke. Although the Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) sc...

Kazuto Yokoyama, Tadashi Kaneko, Asami Ito, Yohei Ieki, Eiji Kawamoto… in Scientific Reports (2022)

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Difference between 5A score and the HOPE score

Recently, a letter to the editor was published to comment on the 5A score which is the prediction model for accidental hypothermia patients comparing the HOPE score. In this letter, we responded to the comment...

Yohei Okada, Tasuku Matsuyama, Kei Hayashida, Shuhei Takauji… in Journal of Intensive Care (2022)

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A differential of the left eye and right eye neurological pupil index is associated with discharge modified Rankin scores in neurologically injured patients

Automated infrared pupillometry (AIP) and the Neurological Pupil index (NPi) provide an objective means of assessing and trending the pupillary light reflex (PLR) across a broad spectrum of neurological diseas...

Claudio M. Privitera, Sanjay V. Neerukonda, Venkatesh Aiyagari… in BMC Neurology (2022)

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Correction: External validation of 5A score model for predicting in-hospital mortality among the accidental hypothermia patients: JAAM-Hypothermia study 2018–2019 secondary analysis

Yohei Okada, Tasuku Matsuyama, Kei Hayashida, Shuhei Takauji… in Journal of Intensive Care (2022)

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External validation of 5A score model for predicting in-hospital mortality among the accidental hypothermia patients: JAAM-Hypothermia study 2018–2019 secondary analysis

The 5A score including five components “Age, Activities of daily living, Arrest, Acidemia and Albumin” was developed as an easy-to-use screening tool for predicting in-hospital mortality among patients with ac...

Yohei Okada, Tasuku Matsuyama, Kei Hayashida, Shuhei Takauji… in Journal of Intensive Care (2022)

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Extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation in adult patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: a retrospective large cohort multicenter study in Japan

The prevalence of extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation (ECPR) in patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) has been increasing rapidly worldwide. However, guidelines or clinical studies do no...

Akihiko Inoue, Toru Hifumi, Tetsuya Sakamoto, Hiroshi Okamoto… in Critical Care (2022)

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Hypothermia for Patients Requiring Evacuation of Subdural Hematoma: A Multicenter Randomized Clinical Trial

Hypothermia is neuroprotective in some ischemia–reperfusion injuries. Ischemia–reperfusion injury may occur with traumatic subdural hematoma (SDH). This study aimed to determine whether early induction and mai...

Georgene W. Hergenroeder, Shoji Yokobori, Huimahn Alex Choi… in Neurocritical Care (2022)

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Rapidly progressive brain atrophy in septic ICU patients: a retrospective descriptive study using semiautomatic CT volumetry

Sepsis is often associated with multiple organ failure; however, changes in brain volume with sepsis are not well understood. We assessed brain atrophy in the acute phase of sepsis using brain computed tomogra...

Ryuta Nakae, Tetsuro Sekine, Takashi Tagami, Yasuo Murai, Eigo Kodani… in Critical Care (2021)

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Association between frailty and mortality among patients with accidental hypothermia: a nationwide observational study in Japan

Frailty has been associated with a risk of adverse outcomes, and mortality in patients with various conditions. However, there have been few studies on whether or not frailty is associated with mortality in pa...

Shuhei Takauji, Toru Hifumi, Yasuaki Saijo, Shoji Yokobori, Jun Kanda… in BMC Geriatrics (2021)

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Machine learning-based mortality prediction model for heat-related illness

In this study, we aimed to develop and validate a machine learning-based mortality prediction model for hospitalized heat-related illness patients. After 2393 hospitalized patients were extracted from a multic...

Yohei Hirano, Yutaka Kondo, Toru Hifumi, Shoji Yokobori, Jun Kanda… in Scientific Reports (2021)