Objective To investigate the relationship between the life quality and the disease uncertainty of the patients with high risk of diabetic foot. Methods The data of 235 patients with high risk of diabetic foot were selected by the convenience sampling method, using the life quality scale for patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus(DMQLS revised edition) and the uncertainty of disease scale (MUIS). Results The total score on life quality in the diabetic patients with high risk was (138.04 ± 7.32), which was at a high level. The psychological dimension ranked on the top in terms of the score, following by physiological dimension, social dimension, disease dimension and satisfaction dimension. The overall score on the uncertainty was (100.09 ±6.89), which was at intermediate level. The dimension of unpredictability ranked on the top, followed by uncertainty, complexity and lack of information. Pearson correlation analysis showed that the uncertainty together with its four dimension was negatively related with quality of life (all P <0.05). Conclusions The life quality in the patients with high risk of diabetes is generally poor and their sense of uncertainty is at the moderate level. The quality of life is negatively correlated with the uncertainty of disease. So reducing the disease uncertainty is helpful for the improvement of the quality of life.

Objective To investigate the effects of ephedrine on glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) expression after cerebral ischemia-reperfusion injury in rats.Methods Altogether 60 male SD rats were randomly divided into sham-operation group,natural recovery group and ephedrine treatment group.The unilateral ischemia-reperfusion models were induced by clue-blocked method.The expression level of GFAP around ischemic area was examined by immunohistochemical technique at weeks 1,2,3 and 4 after operation.Results GFAP expression began to increase at 1 w and stabilized at 3 w in ephedrine treatment group and natural recovery group.There was a significant increase of GFAP expression in ephedrine treatment group compared with that in natural recovery group (P

Objective To study the effect of cold and heat treatment on metastasis and the peripheral blood immune response in patients with breast cancer. Methods A total of 124 breast cancer patients were randomly di-vided into a hot and cold therapy group and a control group, each of 62. Both groups were given conventional surgical resections, and the hot and cold therapy group was given cooling and heating physical therapy for one month before the operation. The efficacy of the treatment and the patients′ spiritual state were compared after the treatment. The effect on lung metastases was evaluated using tomographic images of the chest, and the changes in immune cell levels in the peripheral blood were detected using flow cytometry. Results After the treatment, the remission rate (54.8%), spiritual life ratings on the Karnofsky scale and the area of lung cancer nodule transfer were significantly better in the hot and cold therapy group than in the control group. Twelve weeks after the treatment, the percentage of MDSCs in the control group patients was 72.5%, significantly higher than the 5.3% of the therapy group. The CD4+and CD8+ T cells were 2.2% and 1.8%, significantly lower than the 26.7% and 13.9% of the control group. Con-clusion Cold and hot therapy before a mastectomy can effectively inhibit the metastasis of breast cancer and promote patients′physical rehabilitation and spiritual life. It may regulate the microenvironment of their immunosuppression and stimulate antitumor immunity.

Objective To study the different extraction methods for the content of tanshinoneⅡA in water decocted Radix Salviae Miltiorrhiza, in order to develop comprehensive utilization of Salvia miltiorrhiza. Method Tanshinone ⅡA was extracted by supercritical carbon dioxide fluid and compared with ultrasonic extraction. Result When the extraction pressure was 35 MPa, extraction temperature was 40 ℃, extraction time was 2 h and entrainer (ethanol) was 100 %, the yields of the tanshinone ⅡA was up to 3.87 mg, while the ultrasonic extraction was 2.89 mg. Conclusion TanshinoneⅡA extracted by supercritical carbon dioxide fluid was better than ultrasonic extraction and had higher purity. The comprehensive utilization of Salvia miltiorrhiza is available.

Objective To observe the efficacy and safety of voriconazole in the treatment for the patients infectedwith Candida species.Methods 79 patients were randomly divided into voriconazole treatment group and fluconasole treatment group.And they were enrolled and were administered voriconazole.Results The total effective rate of experimental group was 93.1％,and that of control group was 65.9％ and the difference was significant(P ＜0.05).the risk factors of the two groups showed no obvious difference.the adverse reaction incidence rate in voriconazole treatment group was 16.7％,And that in fluconazole treatment group was 14.0％,there was no significant difference between the two groups.Conclusion The application of voriconazole can receive better effect than that of fluconasole.And it has good clinical safety,and voriconazole is worthy of application in clinic for Candida infection.

Objective To investigate the benefit of inferior vena cava filter on the treatment of deep vein thrombosis(DVT) and pulmonary embolism.Methods From January 2009 to September 2011,of the 115 patients with DVT,27 cases were treated by VCF under DSA,followed by thrombolysis and anticoagulation.Results All the cases were.successfully implanted with VCF and limb detumescence was achieved after thrombolysis and anticoagulation treatment without complications.Conclusion The implantation of inferior vena cava filter combined with thrombolysis and anticoagulation is favorable and safe to treat deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism,and it is also effective to prevent PE in patients with deep venous thrombosis in the low extremity.

Objective:To determine the distribution, drug resistance and presence of disinfectant- resistant gene qacE△1- sul1 of Acinetobacter baumannii. Methods: A.baumannii were identified by VITEK- automated microbial identification. Antibiotic susceptive test was carried out by Kirby- bauer (KB). The gene of qacE△1 in A. baumannii was analyzed by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) in 51 multidrug- resistant isolates. Results: 172 strains of the A.baumannii were isolated from January 2008 to November 2009. Susceptible factors were senility, seriousness of underlying disease and invasive operation with infection of A. baumannii. The resistance rate of A. baumannii to Imipenem was 11.1%, but the sensitive rate to the cephlospotins was very low. 49 of 51 strains were qacE△1- sul1 gene positive. Conclusion: The resistance rates to common antibiotic in A.baumannii are high and the resistance patterns are wide. There is high positive percentage of qacE△1- sul1 gene in multidrug- resistant A.baumannii.

Objective To explore the effects of wearing ankle-foot orthoses (AFOs) on motor function in children with spastic cerebral palsy (SCP). Methods Fifty-two children with SCP were randomly divided into a wearing-for-training group (n = 16, group 1 ), a day-wearing group (n = 19, group 2) and a day-night-wearing group (n = 17, group 3). In addition to the conventional rehabilitative treatment given to all participants, the children in group 1 wore AFOs during movement training, and children in group 2 wore AFOs in the daytime for 6-8 h per day, while AFOs were applied to the children in group 3 for 24 hours a day except for cleaning and during certain training routines. All the treatments were continued for 2 months. Clinical assessments included the range of passive ankle dorsi-and plantarflexion (APROM) , modified Ashworth scale (MAS) ratings, and the D and E dimensions of the Gross Motor Function Measure (GMFM). All were performed before and after treatment. Results Before treat-ment, no statistically significant differences were found among the three groups in terms of APROM, MAS, or GM-FM. There were significant subsequent improvements in groups 2 and 3 when compared with group 1 in terms of APROM, MAS and GMFM results. Group 2's improvements in APROM and MAS results were not significantly better than those of group 3, but their average GMFM score improvements were significantly better. Conclusion Wearing AFOs in the daytime 6-8 hours per day is more effective in reducing spasticity and improving functional performance in children with SCP.

This paper introduces a free and publicly open ICU database: multi-parameter intelligent monitoring in intensive care II: MIMIC-II, which has been built up and maintained by the laboratory of computational physiology at the Massachusetts Institute Technology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Philips Healthcare over the past decade. This paper briefly introduces its infrastructure, implementation and applications in clinical studies. Clinical study pertaining to circadian variation in heart rate and blood pressure during sepsis is shown as a typical example of research performed with MIMIC-II. In this study, it was found there was significant difference in circadian variation in both heart rate and blood pressure between survival and non-survival groups in septic patients. This study tackled several important techniques necessary for the investigation of the circadian rhythm.
Blood Pressure ; Circadian Rhythm ; Critical Care ; Data Mining ; Databases, Factual ; Heart Rate ; Humans ; Medical Informatics