Dear Editor,Accounting for up to 36,000 emergency department visits annually in the United States,chemical ocular burns are a common ophthalmic injury presenting to emergency and urgent care settings.1 Exposure to aci...
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Dear Editor,Accounting for up to 36,000 emergency department visits annually in the United States,chemical ocular burns are a common ophthalmic injury presenting to emergency and urgent care settings.1 Exposure to acids and alkalis can cause serious and irreversible ocular morbidity.2 Early intervention may limit tissue damage and preserve *** recommendations include prompt irrigation until the conjunctival fornix pH returns to physiologic levels and continued monitoring of pH once stable.2,3 Eyelid retraction and eversion is suggested to eliminate offending agents in recessed ocular tissues(the conjunctival fornix and palpebral conjunctiva)and to flush out potentially embedded foreign *** following chemical injury may be complicated by patient cooperation and user skill.4,5 Current available devices used for ocular irrigation have their *** instance,a large volume syringe is often the only available irrigation device after chemical exposure on the front line.3,6 This alone does not facilitate the eyelid retraction necessary to confidently irrigate the conjunctival fornices and palpebral *** chemicals may prolong exposure and increase the risk of severe ocular injury and visual disability.5,9,10 While effective techniques and timely irrigation mitigates the potential for permanent damage after chemical exposure,it is clear there are unmet needs in the management of ocular burns.
Although the fossil record of non-avian dinosaurs from the Cretaceous of Antarctica is the poorest of any continent,fossils representing at least five major taxonomic groups(Ankylosauria,early-diverging Ornithopoda,Ha...
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Although the fossil record of non-avian dinosaurs from the Cretaceous of Antarctica is the poorest of any continent,fossils representing at least five major taxonomic groups(Ankylosauria,early-diverging Ornithopoda,Hadrosauridae,Titanosauria,and Theropoda)have been *** come from Upper Cretaceous(Coniacian–Maastrichtian)marine and nearshore deposits belonging to the Gustav and Marambio groups of the James Ross Basin at the northern tip of the Antarctic *** majority of these finds have come from the Campanian–Maastrichtian Snow Hill Island and López de Bertodano formations of James Ross and Vega *** the rarity of Antarctic Cretaceous non-avian dinosaurs,discoveries of any fossils of these archosaurs,no matter how meager,are of *** we describe fragmentary new ornithischian(ankylosaur and ornithopod)material from the upper Campanian–lower Maastrichtian Cape Lamb Member of the Snow Hill Island Formation and the Maastrichtian Sandwich Bluff Member of the López de Bertodano *** of these specimens is considered to probably pertain to the holotypic individual of the early-diverging ornithopod Morrosaurus *** also provide an up-to-date synthesis of the Late Cretaceous non-avian dinosaur record of the James Ross Basin and analyze the biostratigraphic occurrences of the various finds,demonstrating that most(including all named taxa and all reasonably complete skeletons discovered to date)occur within a relatively condensed temporal interval of the late Campanian to early *** or all James Ross Basin dinosaurs share close affinities with penecontemporaneous taxa from Patagonia,indicating that at least some continental vertebrates could disperse between southern South America and Antarctica during the final stages of the Mesozoic.
Objective:The presence of carotid atherosclerosis reflects the overall atherosclerotic load and may predict cardiovascular and cerebrovascular *** have reported risk factors for carotid ***,few practical models have b...
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Objective:The presence of carotid atherosclerosis reflects the overall atherosclerotic load and may predict cardiovascular and cerebrovascular *** have reported risk factors for carotid ***,few practical models have been established to predict carotid atherosclerosis ***,this study was conducted to investigate important features of carotid atherosclerosis and to propose a machine learning-based method for predicting carotid atherosclerosis in asymptomatic ***:Cross-sectional study was conducted using routine medical check-up data of individuals from January 2019 to January ***’s correlation analysis was performed to correlate the ***,features were selected by python’s feature-selection library and analyzed through three *** machine learning algorithms,including Decision Tree,Random Forest and Logistic Regression(LR)were used to predict the risk of carotid atherosclerotic plaques and compared their precision,accuracy,recall,F1-score and area under the ***:A total of 150 individuals were enrolled in this study,30(20%)of them were found with carotid atherosclerotic ***,age,body mass index,total cholesterol,Systolic blood pressure(SBP),and carbohydrate antigen 724(CA724)were independently correlated to carotid *** Ⅰ and pepsinogen Ⅱ serum levels had no correlations with Carotid intima-media thickness and pulse wave ***,diastolic blood pressure age,low-density lipoprotein,Pepsinogen I,pepsinogen II,body mass index,Waist,CA724,and Uric Acid contribute to the cumulative importance of 0.9,and SBP was the most crucial feature for carotid *** algorithm has the precision(0.92),values of recall(0.91),F1(0.9),and area under the curve(0.95),and showed the optimal performance to predict the presence or absence of carotid atherosclerosis in asymptomatic *** code for analysis in this article was uploaded to GitHub(https://githu
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