Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) represents a paradigmatic approach to personalized medicine, developed through the systematic accumulation and refinement of clinical empirical data over more than 2000 years, and now encompasses large-scale electronic medical records (EMR) and experimental molecular data. Artificial intelligence (AI) has demonstrated its utility in medicine through the development of various expert systems (e.g., MYCIN) since the 1970s. With the emergence of deep learning and large language models (LLMs), AI's potential in medicine shows considerable promise. Consequently, the integration of AI and TCM from both clinical and scientific perspectives presents a fundamental and promising research direction. This survey provides an insightful overview of TCM AI research, summarizing related research tasks from three perspectives: systems-level biological mechanism elucidation, real-world clinical evidence inference, and personalized clinical decision support. The review highlights representative AI methodologies alongside their applications in both TCM scientific inquiry and clinical practice. To critically assess the current state of the field, this work identifies major challenges and opportunities that constrain the development of robust research capabilities-particularly in the mechanistic understanding of TCM syndromes and herbal formulations, novel drug discovery, and the delivery of high-quality, patient-centered clinical care. The findings underscore that future advancements in AI-driven TCM research will rely on the development of high-quality, large-scale data repositories; the construction of comprehensive and domain-specific knowledge graphs (KGs); deeper insights into the biological mechanisms underpinning clinical efficacy; rigorous causal inference frameworks; and intelligent, personalized decision support systems.
Medicine, Chinese Traditional/methods* ; Artificial Intelligence ; Humans ; Precision Medicine ; Decision Support Systems, Clinical

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To investigate the therapeutic effect of open reduction and internal fixation (ORIF) on supination external rotation (SER) ankle fractures (AF) and its impact on ankle joint function and range of motion in patients.Methods:The observation group patients were treated with ORIF, while the control group patients were treated with manual reduction combined with plaster external fixation. Both groups of patients were followed up after 3 and 6 months of treatment. Compare the ankle joint function levels of two groups of patients before treatment and after 3 and 6 months of treatment (Kofood score, AOFAS score, Olerud Molander subjective ankle score (OMAS)). Compare the joint range of motion (relative peak force, torque acceleration energy, endurance) between two groups of patients after 3 and 6 months of treatment. Compare the clinical indicators and incidence of adverse events between two groups of patients after 6 months of treatment. T-test was used for comparison between two groups. Multiple group comparisons were conducted using analysis of variance, while pairwise comparisons were conducted using Dunnett-t test. Comparison of count data between groups using χ2 inspections or Fisher exact test. Results:Before treatment, there was no statistically significant difference in the Kofoed score, AOFAS score, and OMAS score between the two groups of patients (all P>0.05). The Kofoed scores of patients in the observation group before treatment and at 3 and 6 months of treatment were (53.78±6.40), (76.73±4.12), and (89.07±5.78) points, respectively. The control group was (52.22±7.08), (71.68±4.82), and (84.05±5.45) points, respectively. The Kofoed scores of patients in both groups were higher than before treatment at 3 and 6 months of treatment (all P<0.05), and the observation group was higher than the control group (all P<0.01).The AOFAS scores of patients in the observation group before treatment and at 3 and 6 months of treatment were (70.13±5.39), (81.62±4.25), and (92.05±4.15) points, respectively. The control group was (69.85±5.41), (79.08±4.60), and (88.92±4.43) points, respectively. The AOFAS scores of patients in both groups were higher than before treatment at 3 and 6 months of treatment (all P<0.05), and the observation group was significantly higher than the control group (all P<0.01).The OMAS scores of the observation group patients before treatment and at 3 and 6 months of treatment were (53.43±5.07), (76.14±4.52), and (85.68±4.14) points, respectively. The control group was (54.42±4.86), (71.39±3.94), and (81.78±4.15) points, respectively. The OMAS scores of the two groups of patients at 3 and 6 months of treatment were higher than before treatment (all P<0.05), and the observation group was higher than the control group (all P<0.01). The fracture healing time (38.85±4.50) days and complete weight-bearing time (66.62±7.14) days of the observation group patients were shorter than those of the control group patients (49.42±5.43) days and (74.39±6.75) days, and the differences between the two groups were statistically significant (t-values were 12.89 and 6.80, respectively, all P<0.01); There was no statistically significant difference in the incidence of adverse events between the two groups of patients (5.41% (4/74) and 9.46% (7/74)), χ2=0.88, P=0.347). Conclusion:ORIF has a good therapeutic effect on SER-AF patients, promotes ankle joint function recovery, and has a low incidence of adverse events, indicating good safety.

Objective:Cardiac arrest (CA) represents a significant public health challenge, posing a substantial threat to individual health and survival. To enhance the survival rates of patients experiencing out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA), Baoan District in Shenzhen City has undertaken exploratory initiatives and practical interventions, yielding promising preliminary outcomes.Methods:1.Innovate emergency medical services by developing a "four-circle integration" system that connects to the hospital. This system encompasses the social emergency medical system, the out-of-hospital emergency medical system, the in-hospital emergency medical service system, and the intensive care treatment system. 2.Develop a comprehensive model for the construction of a social emergency medical training system, characterized by party leadership, government oversight, departmental coordination, professional guidance, technological support, and community involvement, termed the "Baonan Model." Additionally, establish evaluation criteria to assess the effectiveness of the social emergency medical training system in Baonan District; 3. Develop a cardiac arrest registration system and a social emergency medical training management system for Baonan District; 4. Enhance the proficiency in treatment techniques and the quality of cardiopulmonary resuscitation among emergency medical professionals; 5. Strengthen and advance the development of a "five-minute social rescue network" to address the critical "emergency window period." .Result:In Baonan District, 9.18% of the public is trained in emergency medical skills. The bystander CPR rate for OHCA is 26.11%, AED use is at 4.78%, the 30-day survival rate is 6.31%, and the discharge survival rate is 4.44%.Conclusion:The implementation of the aforementioned measures can substantially enhance the survival rate of patients experiencing OHCA at the time of discharge.

Objective:To survey treatment and prognosis of hyperkalemia patients in the emergency department and to analyze factors associated with all-cause in-hospital mortality.Methods:We implemented electronic hospital information system, extracted demographic characteristics, underlying diseases, laboratory findings, potassium lowering therapy and prognosis of hyperkalemia patients [age ≥ 18 years, serum potassium (K +) concentration ≥ 5.5 mmol/L] in the emergency department of Peking Union hospital in Beijing between June 1st 2019 to May 31st 2020. The enrolled subjects were divided into the non-survival group and the survival group according to their prognosis. Univariate analysis and Cox regression model were adopted to analyze factors affecting all-cause in-hospital mortality of hyperkalemia patients. Results:A total of 579 patients [median age 64 (22) years; 310 men (53.5%) and 269 women (46.5%)] with hyperkalemia were enrolled, among which, 317 (54.7%), 143 (24.7%) and 119 (20.6%) were mild, moderate, and severe hyperkalemia, respectively. 499 (86.20%) patients received potassium-lowering therapy, forty-four treatment regimens were administered. Insulin and glucose (I+G, 61.3%), diuretics (Diu, 57.2%), sodium bicarbonate (SB, 41.9%) and calcium gluconate/chloride (CA, 44.4%) were commonly used for the treatment of hyperkalemiain the emergency department. The combination of insulin and glucose, calcium gluconate/chloride, diuretics and sodium bicarbonate (I+G+CA+Diu+SB) was the most favored combined treatment regimen of hyperkalemia in the emergency department. The higher serum potassium concentration, the higher proportion of administrating combined treatment regimen and/or hemodialysis (HD) (the proportion of administrating combined treatment regimen in mild, moderate, and severe hyperkalemia patients were 58.4%, 82.5% and 94.8%; the proportion of administrating HD in mild, moderate, and severe hyperkalemia patients were 9.7%, 13.3% and 16.0%, respectively). The proportion of achievement of normokalaemia elevated as the kinds of potassium lowering treatment included in the combined treatment regimen increased. The proportion of achievement of normokalaemia was 100% in the combined treatment regimen including 6 kinds of potassium lowering therapy. Among various potassium lowering treatments, HD contributed to the highest rate of achievement of normokalaemia (93.8%). 111 of 579 (19.20%) hyperkalemia patients died in hospital. Cox regression model revealed that complicated with cardiac dysfunction predicted higher mortality [hazard ratio ( HR) = 1.757, 95% confidence interval (95% CI) was 1.155-2.672, P = 0.009]. Achievement of normokalaemia and administration of diuretics attributed to lower mortality ( HR = 0.248, 95% CI was 0.155-0.398, P = 0.000; HR = 0.335, 95% CI was 0.211-0.531, P = 0.000, respectively). Conclusions:Treatment of hyperkalemia in the emergency department were various. Complicated with cardiac dysfunction were associated with higher mortality. Achieving normokalaemia was associated with decreased mortality.

Objective:To explore the change of medical students' self-regulated learning from traditional medicine to clinical practice in emergency department, and to provide direction for optimizing the curriculum system and exploring new education and teaching methods.Methods:Through questionnaires and in-depth interviews, the self-regulated learning scale was applied, and the 6-level Likert scale was used for scoring. A total of 118 medical students, including 8-year undergraduates majoring in clinical medicine of Peking Union Medical College, were evaluated in the traditional medicine course stage (traditional group), emergency clinical practice stage (clinical group), and emergency clinical practice stage of the "4 + 4" reform pilot class ("4 + 4" pilot class group) of clinical medicine. The learning situation and related influencing factors were self-regulated. SPSS 23.0 was used for one-way analysis of variance.Results:Among the eight-year medical students of Peking Union Medical College, there were 48 males (40.7%) and 70 females (59.3%). The three groups of 8-year traditional medicine course stage, 8-year emergency clinical practice stage and "4 + 4" pilot class of emergency clinical practice stage were analyzed. The results showed that the total score of self-regulated learning ability in the clinical group was significantly lower than that in the traditional group [(326.2±31.9) vs. (347.7±40.2) points]. The subscales of self-regulated learning ability were analyzed respectively. In the learning motivation subscale, the score of external goal orientation of the clinical group is significantly lower than that of the traditional group [(8.9±2.3) vs. (10.0±2.9) points] and the score of the "4 + 4" pilot class group is significantly higher than that of the clinical group [(11.0±3.5) vs. (8.9±2.3) points]. In the learning strategy subscale, there was no significant difference among the three groups. In the resource management subscale, the scores of time and study environment [(6.5±1.1) vs. (7.5±1.9) points], learning management [(37.7±4.0) vs. (40.3±3.0) points] and help-seeking [(32.7±5.3) vs. (37.5±9.5) points] of the clinical group decreased significantly compared with those of the traditional group, while the scores of learning management [(40.2±7.3) vs. (37.7±4.0) points] and help-seeking [(38.7±7.6) vs. (32.7±5.3) points] of the "4+4" pilot class group increased significantly compared with those of the clinical group.Conclusion:The self-regulated learning of clinical medical students has changed significantly during the transition from traditional medical class to emergency clinical practice. The decrease of external goal orientation and resource management may be the important reason for the decline of the self-regulated learning ability of 8-year undergraduate medical students in the clinical environment during emergency practice.

Objective:To explore the therapeutic characteristics of population with gout achieving treat-to-target (T2T) indicators through real-world research and evaluate their safety.Methods:A total of 3 287 patients diagnosed with gout by rheumatologists in 21 first-class tertiary hospitals in 10 provinces, municipalities, and autonomous regions in China from January 2015 to December 2021 were included in this polycentric cross-sectional study. The database included patients′ general information, disease characteristics, and clinical application of traditional Chinese and Western medicine treatment measures. SPSS and Excel software were used for data analysis. Frequency analysis, cluster analysis, and factor analysis were used to summarize the characteristics and rules of treatment measures for patients with gout who achieved the target after treatment. The occurrence of adverse events (AE) was recorded during treatment.Results:After treatment, 691 visits (7%) achieved the serum urate (SUA) target, and the most frequent use of urate-lowering therapy (ULT) was febuxostat, followed by benzbromarone. The most common treatment options were following: GroupⅠ: traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) decoction-TCM external treatment-physical exercise-proprietary Chinese medicine; GroupⅡ: ferulic acid-nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs); Group Ⅲ: allopurinol-sodium bicarbonate-benzbromarone; Group Ⅳ: glucocorticoid-colchicine; Group Ⅴ: febuxostat. A total of 5 898 visits (60%) chieved manifestations of joint pain VAS scores target, and the most frequently used drug to control joint symptoms was NSAIDs. The frequency of use of drugs to control joint symptoms were 2 118 times (usage rate reached 35.9%), while the frequency of ULT were 2 504 times (usage rate reached 42.5%), which was higher than the joint symptom control drug. The most common treatment options were following: Group Ⅰ: proprietary Chinese medicine-TCM decoction-TCM external treatment-physical exercise; Group Ⅱ: NSAIDs-colchicine hormones; Group Ⅲ: allopurinol, Group Ⅳ: benzbromarone; Group Ⅴ: febuxostat. A total of 59 adverse events occurred during treatment.Conclusion:The proportions of gout patients who reach target serum urate level & good control of joint symptoms are both very low, and ULT and anti-inflammatory prescription patterns are very different from international guidelines, so it is necessary to strengthen the standardized management of gout patients. At the same time, life intervention measures account for a certain proportion of the treatment plans for the T2T population, and further exploration is needed.

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the effect of different fraction of inspired oxygen (FiO₂) baseline levels before endotracheal intubation on the time of expiratory oxygen concentration (EtO₂) reaching the standard in emergency patients with the EtO₂ as the monitoring index. METHODS: A retrospective observational study was conducted. The clinical data of patients receiving endotracheal intubation in the emergency department of Peking Union Medical College Hospital from January 1 to November 1 in 2021 were enrolled. In order to avoid interference with the final result due to inadequate ventilation caused by non-standard operation or air leakage, the process of the continuous mechanical ventilation after FiO₂ was adjusted to pure oxygen in patients who had been intubated was selected to simulate the process of mask ventilation under pure oxygen before intubation. Combined with the electronic medical record and the ventilator record, the changes of the time required to reach 0.90 of EtO₂ (that was, the time required to reach the standard of EtO₂) and the respiratory cycle required to reach the standard after adjusting FiO₂ to pure oxygen under different baseline levels of FiO₂ were analyzed. RESULTS: 113 EtO₂ assay records were collected from 42 patients. Among them, 2 patients had only one EtO₂ record due to the FiO₂ baseline level of 0.80, while the rest had two or more records of EtO₂ reaching time and respiratory cycle corresponding to different FiO₂ baseline level. Among the 42 patients, most of them were male (59.5%), elderly [median age was 62 (40, 70) years old] patients with respiratory diseases (40.5%). There were significant differences in lung function among different patients, but the majority of patients with normal function [oxygenation index (PaO₂/FiO₂) > 300 mmHg (1 mmHg ≈ 0.133 kPa), 38.0%]. In the setting of ventilator parameters, combined with the slightly lower arterial partial pressure of carbon dioxide of patients [33 (28, 37) mmHg], mild hyperventilation phenomenon was considered to be widespread. With the increased in FiO₂ baseline level, the time of EtO₂ reaching standard and the number of respiratory cycles showed a gradually decreasing trend. When the FiO₂ baseline level was 0.35, the time of EtO₂ reaching the standard was the longest [79 (52, 87) s], and the corresponding median respiratory cycle was 22 (16, 26) cycles. When the FiO₂ baseline level was increased from 0.35 to 0.80, the median time of EtO₂ reaching the standard was shortened from 79 (52, 78) s to 30 (21, 44) s, and the median respiratory cycle was also reduced from 22 (16, 26) cycles to 10 (8, 13) cycles, with statistically significant differences (both P < 0.05). CONCLUSIONS The higher the FiO₂ baseline level of the mask ventilation in front of the endotracheal intubation in emergency patients, the shorter the time for EtO₂ reaching the standard, and the shorter the mask ventilation time.
Aged ; Humans ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Female ; Intubation, Intratracheal ; Respiration ; Ventilators, Mechanical ; Arteries ; Blood Gas Analysis

Objective:Rapid assessment of the outcome after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) is an important clinical issue. In this study, an electrocardiogram (ECG) analysis method based on dynamic learning was proposed.Methods:A total of 203 patients with ACS after successful PCI were enrolled for prospective analysis at the Emergency Department of Qilu Hospital of Shandong University from April 2019 to December 2020. All patients were divided into group without ≥70% postoperative stenosis ( n=72) and group with ≥ 70% postoperative stenosis ( n=131) according to the presence of 70% or more stenosis after PCI. The clinical data of ACS patients were collected and analyzed by χ2 test, t-test, or Mann-Whitney test. ECGs were recorded before and 2 h after PCI, and were dynamically analyzed to generate cardiodynamicsgram (CDG) using dynamic learning. In the group without ≥ 70% postoperative stenosis, the model and CDG index for evaluating myocardial ischemia were obtained by training support vector machine (SVM) using 10 times 10-fold cross-validation. Results:There was no significant difference in clinical data between the two groups. The prediction accuracy and sensitivity of the support vector machine model for myocardial ischemia in group without≥70% postoperative stenosis were 73.61%, and 84.72% respectively. CDG transformed from disorderly to regular after PCI, and CDG index decreased significantly ( P<0.001): 90.28% (65) patients in group without≥70% postoperative stenosis, and 79.39% (104) patients in group with≥70% postoperative stenosis had lower CDG indexes than before PCI. Conclusions:In this study, CDG obtained by dynamic learning can intuitively and effectively evaluate the changes of myocardial ischemia before and after PCI, which is helpful to assist clinicians to formulate the next treatment plan.

Objective:To evaluate the accuracy of CHANNEL process in predicting difficult airway of patients in emergency department.Methods:From July 2016 to December 2019, we selected patients who underwent airway management in the emergency department of Peking Union Medical College Hospital. They were evaluated by CHANNEL and improved Mallampati (modified Mallampati test, MMT) classification at the same time. After completion, the glottis was exposed under direct laryngoscope, and then Cormack Lehane classification was performed. Difficult airway was defined as Cormack-Lehane grade Ⅲ or Ⅳ. The receiver-operating characteristics curve was used to evaluate the accuracy of MMT and CHANNEL in predicting difficult airway.Results:122 of 312 patients who underwent emergency airway management were included in the study. The sensitivity of CHANNEL in predicting difficult airway was 100%, the specificity was 90.1%, the area under the curve(95% confidence interval) was 0.948(0.907~0.988).Compared with MMT, the area under the curve of CHANNEL in predicting difficult airway was significantly increased( P<0.05). Conclusion:CHANNEL can accurately predict difficult airway of patients in the emergency department.