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Mixed method evaluation of the CEBHA+ integrated knowledge translation approach Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Lisa M Pfadenhauer, Tanja Grath, Peter Delobelle, Nasreen Jessani, Joerg J Meerpohl, Anke Rohwer, Bey-Marrié Schmidt, Ingrid Toews, Ann R Akiteng, Gertrude Chapotera, et al.

BACKGROUND: The Collaboration for Evidence-based Healthcare and Public Health in Africa (CEBHA+) is a research consortium concerned with the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of non-communicable diseases. CEBHA+ seeks to engage policymakers and practitioners throughout the research process in order to build lasting relationships, enhance evidence uptake, and create long-term capacity among partner institutions in Ethiopia, Malawi, Rwanda, ...

A survey of patient blood management for patients undergoing cardiac surgery in nine European countries. KU Leuven

Andrew Klein, Seema Agarwal, Bernard Cholley, Jens Fassl, Michael Griffin, Timo Kaakinen, Zineb Mzallassi, Patrick Paulus, Steffen Rex, Martin Siegemund, et al.
STUDY OBJECTIVE: To describe and compare patient blood management (PBM) practices in cardiac surgery in nine European countries and identify the main risk factors for bleeding or transfusion according to the surveyed centres. DESIGN: We set up an online survey to evaluate PBM practices in two clinical scenarios, risk factors for bleeding or transfusion, and previous experience with antifibrinolytics. SETTING: This survey was completed by ...

EACTA/SCA Recommendations for the Cardiac Anesthesia Management of Patients With Suspected or Confirmed COVID-19 Infection: An Expert Consensus From the European Association of Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology and Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists KU Leuven

Fabio Guarracino, Stanton K Shernan, Mohamed El Tahan, Pietro Bertini, Marc E Stone, Bessie Kachulis, Gianluca Paternoster, Chirojit Mukherjee, Patrick Wouters, Steffen Rex, et al.
The European Association of Cardiothoracic Anaesthesiology (EACTA) and the Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists (SCA) aimed to create joint recommendations for the perioperative management of patients with suspected or proven severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection undergoing cardiac surgery or invasive cardiac procedures. To produce appropriate recommendations, the authors combined the evidence from the ...

Health Recommender Systems: Systematic Review KU Leuven

Robin De Croon, Leen Van Houdt, Nyi Nyi Htun, Gregor Stiglic, Veronika Vanden Abeele, Katrien Verbert
BACKGROUND: Health recommender systems (HRSs) offer the potential to motivate and engage users to change their behavior by sharing better choices and actionable knowledge based on observed user behavior. OBJECTIVE: We aim to review HRSs targeting nonmedical professionals (laypersons) to better understand the current state of the art and identify both the main trends and the gaps with respect to current implementations. METHODS: We conducted a ...

Exploratory Outlier Detection for Acceleromyographic Neuromuscular Monitoring: Machine Learning Approach KU Leuven

Michael Verdonck, Hugo Carvalho, Johan Berghmans, Patrice Forget, Jan Poelaert
BACKGROUND: Perioperative quantitative monitoring of neuromuscular function in patients receiving neuromuscular blockers has become internationally recognized as an absolute and core necessity in modern anesthesia care. Because of their kinetic nature, artifactual recordings of acceleromyography-based neuromuscular monitoring devices are not unusual. These generate a great deal of cynicism among anesthesiologists, constituting an obstacle toward ...

Validation of Visual and Auditory Digital Markers of Suicidality in Acutely Suicidal Psychiatric Inpatients: Proof-of-Concept Study KU Leuven

Isaac Galatzer-Levy, Anzar Abbas, Anja Ries, Stephanie Homan, Laura Sels, Vidya Koesmahargyo, Vijay Yadav, Michael Colla, Hanne Scheerer, Stefan Vetter, et al.
BACKGROUND: Multiple symptoms of suicide risk have been assessed based on visual and auditory information, including flattened affect, reduced movement, and slowed speech. Objective quantification of such symptomatology from novel data sources can increase the sensitivity, scalability, and timeliness of suicide risk assessment. OBJECTIVE: We aimed to examine measurements extracted from video interviews using open-source deep learning algorithms ...

Virtual estimation of effective dose in neutron fields KU Leuven

J Eakins, M Abdelrahman, L Hager, JTM Jansen, E Kouroukla, P Lombardo, R Tanner, Filip Vanhavere, O Van Hoey
The PODIUM project aims to provide real-time assessments of occupationally exposed workers by tracking their motion and combining this with a simulation of the radiation field. The present work describes the approach that would be taken in mixed neutron-gamma fields, and details the methods for generating and applying an effective dose rate map; the required fluence to effective dose conversion coefficients at intercardinal angles are also ...

Timing of surgery following SARS‐CoV‐2 infection: an international prospective cohort study UZBrussel

Jasper Stijns, Martijn Schoneveld

Peri-operative SARS-CoV-2 infection increases postoperative mortality. The aim of this study was to determine the optimal duration of planned delay before surgery in patients who have had SARS-CoV-2 infection. This international, multicentre, prospective cohort study included patients undergoing elective or emergency surgery during October 2020. Surgical patients with pre-operative SARS-CoV-2 infection were compared with those without ...

Ventilator-associated bacterial pneumonia in coronavirus 2019 disease, a retrospective monocentric cohort study Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Marco Moretti, Johan Van Laethem, Andrea Minini, Denis Pierard, Manu L N G Malbrain

INTRODUCTION: Severe coronavirus 2019 disease (CoViD-19) may lead to respiratory failure and mechanical ventilation. Therefore, ventilator associated pneumonia (VAP) may complicate the course of the disease. The aim of the current article was to investigate possible predictive factors for bacterial VAP on a retrospective manner, in a cohort of mechanically ventilated CoViD-19 patients. Additionally, determinant factors of lethality were ...