With the continuous advancement and innovation in medical equipment technology, the transition between high-flow oxygen therapy, non-invasive ventilation, and invasive ventilation can be easily achieved by adjusting the ventilation mode of ventilators. During the weaning phase for tracheotomized patients, it is necessary to disconnect the ventilator circuit, change the ventilator mode, and gradually extend the weaning time to achieve complete ventilator liberation. During the weaning process, due to patients' excessive dependence on the ventilator, there may be situations where respiratory endpoints and Y-connectors of the ventilator are reconnected for invasive ventilation. However, during the weaning process, the Y-connector and expiratory end connectors are exposed to the air, which cannot ensure the tightness of the ventilator circuit, easily increasing the probability of ventilator circuit contamination and subsequently the risk of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP). To overcome these issues, the research team of department of critical care medicine of Zhongda Hospital Southeast University has designed a ventilator circuit interface protective device for weaning and has obtained a National Utility Model Patent of China (ZL 2023 2 1453385.8). The main body of the protective device is a Y-connector plug, consisting of multiple components, including a sealing piece, a protective cover, a sealing plug, an interface 1 (connects with the patient's tracheal tube), an interface 2 (connects with the respiratory branch of the ventilator), and an interface 3 (connects with the expiratory branch of the ventilator), featuring a unique design and easy operation. During the patient's weaning training process, the interface 1 and interface 2 is disconnected from the patient's tracheal tube and respiratory branch, respectively. The interface 1 is plugged with a stopper, and the interface 2 is covered with a protective cover to ensure the tightness of the expiratory branch and Y-connector of the ventilator. During the period when the patient is using the ventilator, the protective cover and plug are removed, and connecting them together ensures the tightness of the device itself, reducing the incidence of VAP caused by ventilator circuit contamination, avoiding nosocomial infections, and shortening the prolonged use of invasive ventilation, increased complication rate, extended hospital stay, and increased medical cost associated with weaning.
Humans ; Ventilator Weaning/methods* ; Equipment Design ; Ventilators, Mechanical ; Respiration, Artificial/instrumentation* ; Pneumonia, Ventilator-Associated/prevention & control*

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the causes of soft tissue complications in patients with dorsal displacement distal radius fractures (DRF) after volar locking plate surgery. METHODS: From July 2016 to May 2021, 112 patients with dorsal displacement DRF were treated with volar locking plate surgery, including 45 males and 67 females. The average age was (46.24±10.08) years old, ranging from 18 to 85 years old. According to whether there were soft tissue complications after operation, they were divided into complication group (40 cases) and non complication group (72 cases). Compared with preoperation, the radial metacarpal inclination and ulnar deflection angle, wrist flexion activity and dorsal extension activity, and grip strength of patients after operation were significantly improved (P<0.05). Compared with the non complication group, the proportion of patients in the complication group whose age was>60 years, body mass index (BMI) more than 30 kg·m^-2, smoking, diabetes, fracture type C, open fracture and operation time more than 90 min was higher (P<0.05). The age, BMI, smoking, diabetes, fracture AO classification, fracture type and operation time were analyzed by multifactor Logistic regression to determine the independent risk factors affecting the occurrence of postoperative soft tissue complications of patients, establish a nomogram prediction model, and evaluate the model. RESULTS: At the latest follow-up, the excellent and good rate of wrist joint function recovery was 83.93% (94/112), and the excellent and good rate of fracture reduction was 84.82% (95/112). Multivariate Logistic regression analysis showed that age more than 60 years old, diabetes, fracture type C, open fracture and operation time more than 90 min were independent risk factors for postoperative soft tissue complications (P<0.05). The receiver operating characteristic (ROC), calibration curve and clinical decision curve of the nomogram prediction model showed discrimination, accuracy and validity were good. CONCLUSION Age more than 60 years, diabetes mellitus, fracture type C, open fracture, and operation time more than 90 min are all independent risk factors for soft tissue complications after DRF volar plate fixation. In clinical treatment, perioperative soft tissue management should be done in such patients to prevent complications.
Female ; Male ; Humans ; Adult ; Middle Aged ; Adolescent ; Young Adult ; Aged ; Aged, 80 and over ; Wrist Fractures ; Fractures, Open ; Risk Factors ; Wrist Joint/surgery* ; Metacarpal Bones

Objective:To explore the consistency of peripheral whole blood and venous serum procalcitonin (PCT) levels, and the value of peripheral whole blood PCT in evaluating pediatric bacterial infection.Methods:This multicenter cross-sectional parallel control study was conducted in 11 children′s hospital. All the 1 898 patients older than 28 days admitted to these hospitals from March 2018 to February 2019 had their peripheral whole blood and venous serum PCT detected simultaneously with unified equipment, reagent and method. According to the venous serum PCT level, the patients were stratified to subgroups. Analysis of variance and chi-square test were used to compare the demographic characteristics among groups. And the correlation between the peripheral blood and venous serum PCT level was investigated by quantitative Pearson correlation analysis.The PCT resultes were also converted into ranked data to further test the consistency between the two sampling methods by Spearman′s rank correlation test. Furthermore, the ranked data were converted into binary data to evaluate the consistency and investigate the best cut-off of peripheral blood PCT level in predicting bacterial infection.Results:A total of 1 898 valid samples were included (1 098 males, 800 females),age 27.4(12.2,56.7) months. There was a good correlation between PCT values of peripheral whole blood and venous serum ( r=0.97 , P<0.01). The linear regression equation was PCT?venous serum=0.135+0.929×PCT peripheral whole blood. However, when stratified to 5 levels, PCT results showed diverse and unsatisfied consistency between the two sampling methods ( r=0.51-0.92, all P<0.01). But after PCT was converted to ordinal categorical variables, the stratified analysis showed that the coincidence rate of the measured values by the two sampling methods in each boundary area was 84.9%-97.1%. The dichotomous variables also showed a good consistency (coincidence rate 96.8%-99.3%, Youden index 0.82-0.89). According to the severity of disease, the serum PCT value was classified into 4 intervals（<0.5、0.5-<2.0、2.0-<10.0、≥10.0 μg/L）, and the peripheral blood PCT value also showed a good predictive value (AUC value was 0.991 2-0.997 9). The optimal cut points of peripheral whole blood PCT value 0.5、1.0、2.0、10.0 μg/L corresponding to venous serum PCT values were 0.395, 0.595, 1.175 and 3.545 μg/L, respectively. Conclusions:There is a good correlation between peripheral whole blood PCT value and the venous serum PCT value, which means that the peripheral whole blood PCT could facilitate the identification of infection and clinical severity. Besides, the sampling of peripheral whole blood is simple and easy to repeat.

Objective To investigate the clinical data of Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia(MPP)compli-cated with embolism in children,and to improve the understanding of the clinical features,diagnosis and treatment of the disease.Methods Six cases of MPP complicated with embolization,who were treated at Nanjing Children′s Hospital Affiliated to Nanjing Medical University from January 201 0 to June 201 5,were analyzed retrospectively.Results The ages of 6 cases ranged from 3 years and 3 months old to 1 3 years and 1 0 months old,and 3 cases were boys,3 cases were girls.All of 6 patients had high fever,positive anti -Mycoplasma IgM antibody (≥1 160)and sputum fluores-cence quantitative -Mycoplasma pneumonia (FQ -MP DNA),and all the chest imaging was consistent with pneumonia. Among 6 patients,4 cases complicated with liver function damage,4 cases had D -dimer rise,5 cases of erythrocyte sedi-mentation rate increased at different degree,while pleural effusion or pleuritis was found in 5 cases.The region of embo-lism in the cases included left renal artery in 1 case,the left popliteal artery in 1 case,the right middle cerebral artery em-bolism combined with cerebral infarction in 1 case,the right subclavian vein embolism combined with right upper extremi-ty embolism in 1 case,the basilar artery and bilateral posterior cerebral artery embolism combined with cerebral infarction in 1 case,and the other case involved the right pulmonary embolism.One case received thrombus dislodgment operation, and all of 6 cases were given the treatment including anti -infection,anticoagulation and low dose of glucocorticoid the-rapy,among whom 1 case died of cerebral hernia,and the other 5 cases improved.Conclusions MPP is often complicated with hypercoagulative state and potentialized to thrombosis,and thrombus may occur in vessels of whole body organs,and cerebral infarction had poor prognosis.Consequently,doctors should be aware of the potential risk factors for thrombosis. Early diagnosis and prompt anticoagulation and thrombolytic therapy could reduce mortality and disability rate.

Amino Acid Motifs ; Bacterial Proteins ; chemistry ; Crystallography, X-Ray ; Klebsiella pneumoniae ; chemistry ; Protein Domains ; Transcription Factors ; chemistry

BACKGROUND:Studies have shown that bone loss can lead to a series of diseases, such as osteoporotic fractures, thus seeking to increase bone mass has become a goal of the majority of researchers.
OBJECTIVE:To summarize the current studies of improving bone mass by using stem cel transplantation, hoping to the extensive application of stem cel transplantation in the clinical treatment of osteoporosis as early as possible.
METHODS:A computer-based search of PubMed and CNKI was performed by the first author to retrieve articles relevant to stem cel therapy for osteoporosis published from January 1997 to October 2014. The keywords were“to improve bone mass, regenerative medicine, bone marrow mesenchymal stem cel transplantation, stem cel therapy”in Chinese and English, respectively, which appeared in the title, abstract or keywords. Articles published recently or in authoritative journals were preferred, and final y 28 articles were included in result analysis.
RESULTS AND CONCLUSION:Bone marrow mesenchymal stem cel s which are isolated and cultured easily can proliferate rapidly and have multi-lineage differentiation potential. Studies have shown that the osteogenic differentiation of bone marrow mesenchymal stem cel s can real y improve bone mass, and obtain more achievements in the treatment of orthopedic disorders. This new cel therapy can help to accelerate bone healing and reduce treatment time, offering a new therapeutic choice for orthopedic surgery, plastic surgery, oral and maxil ofacial surgery, and therefore, it has broad application prospects.