Ambulatory electrocardiogram (ECG) monitoring can effectively reduce the risk and death rate of patients with cardiovascular diseases (CVDs). The Body Sensor Network (BSN) based ECG monitoring is a new and efficien method to protect the CVDs patients. To meet the challenges of miniaturization, low power and high signal quality of the node, we proposed a novel 50 mmX 50 mmX 10 mm, 30 g wireless ECG node, which includes the single-chip an alog front-end AD8232, ultra-low power microprocessor MSP430F1611 and Bluetooth module HM-11. The ECG signal quality is guaranteed by the on-line digital filtering. The difference threshold algorithm results in accuracy of R-wave detection and heart rate. Experiments were carried out to test the node and the results showed that the pro posed node reached the design target, and it has great potential in application of wireless ECG monitoring.
Algorithms ; Cardiovascular Diseases ; diagnosis ; Electrocardiography, Ambulatory ; instrumentation ; Equipment Design ; Heart Rate ; Humans ; Wireless Technology ; instrumentation

Objective To investigate the effect of ultrasound-guided serratus plane block onefficacy of postoperative analgesia in patients undergoing radical mastectomy. Methods From January 2013 to December 2016, sixty-eight ASA physical statusⅠorⅡ patients scheduled for radical mastectomy under general anesthesia were randomly divided into two groups (n = 34 each): SP block group (observation group) and control group. After induction of anesthesia, ultrasound-guided homolateral SP block was performed, and 0.375% ropivacaine 20 ml was injected in observation group, while the equal volume of normal saline was used instead in control group. The patients received patient-controlled intravenous analgesia (PCIA) with sufentanil after operation in two groups. The scores of prince henry pain scale (PHPS) were evaluated at the 2nd, 4th, 8th, 12th and 24th hour (T1, T2, T3, T4, T5) after operation. The consumption of sufentanil, propofol and remifentanil was recorded.Meantime, the times of successfully delivered doses (D1) and attempts (D2) within 24 h after operation were added up, and D1/D2 was calculated. The adverse effects were also recorded. Results The scores of PHPS at T1 [(1.4 ± 0.5) scores vs. (3.1 ± 0.6) scores], T2 [(1.5 ± 0.6) scores vs. (2.9 ± 0.8) scores], T3 [(1.7 ± 0.5) scores vs. (2.8 ± 0.7) scores], and the consumption of sufentanil [(53.4 ± 16.7)μg vs. (87.8 ± 24.5)μg], remifentanil[(288.7 ± 42.1)μg vs. (376.5 ± 61.6)μg] were significantly lower in observation group than those in control group, while D1/D2 (0.89 ± 0.12 vs. 0.57 ± 0.18) was higher (P<0.05). The incidence of adverse reactions was significantly lower in observation group: 0 vs. 20.6% (7/34), P<0.05. Conclusions Ultrasound-guided SP block reduces the perioperative opioids consumption and enhances the efficacy of postoperative analgesia in patients undergoing radical mastectomy.

Put forward in this paper are suggestions for the solution of problems (insufficient investment of funds, shortage of professionals , incapability of interlink and interaction of hospital data) in Huanggang hospital information construction, including quickening medical information professionals training, optimizing their structure, bringing the leading role of government into full play, adding investment of funds, strengthening construction of infrastructures , establishing criteria for data, promoting interlink and interaction of data, enforcing management and maintenance of hospital information system , founding cooperative professional societies .

A method was established for identifying the chemical components of a traditional Chinese medicinal formula Baihe Zhimu Tang and its single herbs by combining high performance liquid chromatography and electrospray ionization mass spectrometry(HPLC-ESI-MS). The molecular ions of compounds in both negative and positive modes were observed for molecule mass information, and the potential structures were identified by attentive studying on the mass spectra of compounds and comparing with Reference data and some of standards. The results show that in MS detection, saponins in Baihe Zhimu Tang and its single herbs are easily to become positive ions in the electrospray ionization procedure, and they have strong responses, but the mass spectrometric signals of flavonoids and phenolic glucosides are week. 38 compounds in Baihe Zhimu Tang including 3 flavonoids, 4 phenolic glucosides and 31 saponins were identified through analyzing and comparing the total ion chromatograms(TIC) and mass spectra of Baihe Zhimu Tang and its single herbs. This method has the advantages of simple operation, rapid measurement and it is a powerful tool for identification of chemical components in Baihe Zhimu Tang.

Background Studies determined that blue light exposure causes apoptosis of human retinal pigment epithelial (RPE) cells,but its mechanism is still below understood.Objective The aim of this study was to investigate whether or how mitochondrial apoptotic pathway is involved in blue-light induced apoptosis of human RPE cells in vitro.Methods Human RPE cells were isolated from fresh donor eyes and primarily cultured and passaged.The cells were identified with keratin antibody by immunochemistry.Then the cells were the non-light exposed group,simple light-exposed group,light-exposed+nifedipine group,light-exposed+calphostin C group and the light-exposed+phorbol myristate acetate (PMA) group.Human RPE cells in light-exposed group were consequently cultured for 24 hours following the exposure of (2 000±500)lx blue-light for 6 hours,and then the expression levels of bax,bcl-2,bcl-xl in the cells were detected by Western blot to evaluate the effect of blue light on the apoptosis.The cells in the light-exposed+nifedipine group,light-exposed+calphostin C group and the light-exposed+PMA group were treated with the corresponding drugs 1 hour prior to light irradiation and sequently received 6-hour light irradiation and 48-hour culture.The expression of caspase-9 protein in the cells were assayed with Western blot to assess the influence of Ca2+ channel and protein kinase C (PKC) pathway on mitochondria of RPE cells.Results Cultured cells grew well with visible pigment in cytoplasm.The cells showed the positive response for keratin and presented a cobblestone-like appearance.The expression bands of bax,bcl-2 and bcl-xl proteins were clearly visible at the molecular weight of 23 000,26 000 and 30 000 in both non-light exposed group and the simple light-exposed group,and the absorbance values of the cells to bax were elevated,while the absorbance values to bcl-2 and bcl-xl were declined in the simple light-exposed group compared with the non-light exposed group (t =-4.409,P =0.012 ;t =7.575,P =0.002 ; t =6.068,P =0.004).Compared with the non-light exposed group,the absorbance values of caspase-9 were significantly raised in the simple light-exposed group,light-exposed+calphostin C group and the lightexposed+PMA group (P=0.005,0.002,0.000),but no significant difference between the non-light exposed group and light-exposed+nifedipine group (P=0.191).Compared with the simple light-exposed group,the expression level was considerably higher in the light-exposed + PMA group (P =0.005) ; while that in the light-exposed + nifedipine group or light-exposed+calphostin C group was not significantly different (P=0.057,0.643).Conclusions Blue light exposure induces apoptosis of RPE cells by up-regulating the expressions of bax and caspase-9 proteins and down-regulating the expressions of bcl-2 and bcl-xl.The mitochondrial apoptosis pathway and PKC pathway participate in blue-light induced apoptosis of human RPE cells in vitro.

Objective:To investigate the efficacy and safety of endovascular treatment (EVT) in patients with acute ischemic stroke due to acute primary medium vessel occlusion (MeVO).Methods:Patients with primary MeVO received EVT in the stroke center of Jining First People's Hospital from January 2019 to January 2022 were enrolled retrospectively. MeVO was defined as occlusion of M2/M3 segment of middle cerebral artery, A2/A3 segment of anterior cerebral artery and P2/P3 segment of posterior cerebral artery. The symptoms, vascular recanalization and surgical complications were documented. The National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) score at discharge and the modified Rankin Scale (mRS) score at 90 d after onset were followed up.Results:A total of 17 patients with primary MeVO were included, among them 16 successfully achieved vascular recanalization, 1 had distal emboli escape, and 1 had asymptomatic intracranial hemorrhage. There was significant difference in NIHSS scores before and after thrombectomy ( P<0.01). Ten patients (62.5%) had good functional outcome (mRS score 0-2), and 1 died of secondary pulmonary infection at 20 d after procedure. Conclusion:After strict risk/benefit evaluation and screening, EVT of acute ischemic stroke due to primary MeVO was technically feasible, and had good efficacy and safety.

Following rapid social and economic development over the past several decades,pollution by heavy metals has been both serious and widespread in many areas of the world,including China.The situations of heavy metal pollution in China were reviewed,and the health risk and control policy of such pollution were also analyzed and discussed in present paper.

Objective To analyze the clinicopathological characteristics of upper gastrointestinal submucosal tumors ( SMTs ) . Methods Clinicopathological data of 1 743 patients with 1 775 upper gastrointestinal SMTs in our department from January 2008 to December 2012 were retrospectively analyzed. Results The first finding was that in 702 esophagus cases,leiomyoma(92?59%,650/702) was the most common type of esophageal SMTs. Second, in 1 045 gastric cases, there were 405 lesions at gastric fundus, the most common type of SMTs were 249 ( 61?48%) GISTs and 144 ( 35?56%) leiomyoma. In 307 lesions located at body,the most common type of SMTs were 143( 46?58%) GISTs and 90( 29?32%) leiomyoma. In 191 lesions located at antrum, the most common type of SMTs were 83( 43?46%) heterotopia pancreas and 45(23?56%) hamartoma, followed by 28(14?66%) lipoma and 20(10?47%) GISTs. In 142 lesions located at cardia, the most common type of SMTs was 110 ( 77?46%) leiomyoma. Third, in 28 duodenum cases, there were 19 lesions at duodenal bulb, the most common type of SMTs was 10 heterotopia pancreas, 4 Brunner gland adenoma and 3 GISTs. In 9 lesions located at descending duodenum,the most common type of SMTs was 4 lipomyoma, followed by 2 ectopic pancreas,1 GISTs and 2 others. Conclusion Leiomyoma is the most common type of esophageal SMTs. In gastric fundus and body, the most common type of SMTs are GISTs and leiomyoma. In antrum, the most common type of SMTs are heterotopia pancreas and hamartoma, but in cardia, that is leiomyoma.In duodenal bulb, the most common type of SMTs are heterotopia pancreas, Brunner gland adenoma and GISTs,and in descending duodenum, is lipomyoma.

Objective To investigate the expression profiles of microRNA in early esophageal squamous cancer and normal esophageal tissues and verify the significantly different expression miRNAs , further to study the effects on proliferation of EC109. Methods The microarray assay was performed to analyze miRNA expression profiles in three pairs of early esophageal squamous cancer and the corresponding normal esophageal tissues. Quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR) was used in another 38 pairs samples to further verify the differentially expressed miRNAs . Three verified miRNAs ( miR-29a, miR-221 and miR-222) mimics were transfected into EC109 respectively and CCK8 method was used to study the effect of cell proliferation in each miRNA. Results Microarray technique selected 53 miRNAs that differentially expressed in early esophageal squamous cancer and normal esophageal tissues , 32 miRNAs were up-regulated and 21 miRNAs were down-regulated. qRT-PCR verified that miR-29a was significantly down-regulated (P < 0.05) and miR-221, miR-222 were significantly up-regulated (P < 0.05) in early esophageal squamous cancer tissue. Over-expression of miR-29a could significantly inhibit the proliferation of EC109 (P < 0.05) whereas over-expression of miR-221 or miR-222 could both significantly promote the proliferation of EC109 (P < 0.05). Conclusion There was significant difference of miRNAs expression between early esophageal squamous cancer and normal esophageal tissues, and the differentially expressed miRNAs could be used as new biomarkers for early diagnosis of esophageal squamous cancer.

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