Jae-Sung Yoo

Purpose: In Korea, registration of paraquat-containing herbicides was canceled in November 2011, and sales thereof were completelybanned in November 2012. We evaluated the effect of the paraquat ban on the epidemiology and mortality of herbicide-inducedpoisoning. Materials and Methods: This retrospective study analyzed patients treated for herbicide poisoning at 17 emergency departments in South Korea between January 2010 and December 2014. The overall and paraquat mortality rates were compared

Purpose: The objective of this study was to develop a new nomogram that can predict 28-day mortality in severe sepsis and/or septic shock patients using a combination of several biomarkers that are inexpensive and readily available in most emergency departments, with and without scoring systems. Materials and Methods: We enrolled 561 patients who were admitted to an emergency department (ED) and received early goal-directed therapy for severe sepsis or septic shock. We collected demographic data

Purpose: Fitz-Hugh-Curtis Syndrome (FHCS) is a clinical entity characterized by inflammation of the liver capsule associated with genital tract infection. The aim of this study is to provide physicians with clinical suggestions for diagnostic approaches based on a series of patients who were diagnosed with FHCS. Materials and Methods: We conducted a retrospective study of patients who were diagnosed with FHCS after presenting to the emergency department (ED). The symptoms, physical examinations,

Osteoarthritis (OA) is one of the most common causes of disability in elderly individuals. Although X-rays, MRIs, and arthroscopy are widely used to examine OA, they do not provide dynamic information on activity-based joint integrity. In this study, acoustic emission (AE) in healthy individuals and OA patients was determined using piezoelectric sensors. Twenty normal subjects and fourteen OA patients were asked to perform weight-bearing (stand-to-sit) and non-weight-bearing (extension to flexio

This study aims to investigate the idea that an active-resistive training with an EMG-based exoskeleton robot could be beneficial to muscle strength and antagonist muscle cocontraction control after 4-week intensive elbow flexion/extension training. Three older people over 65 years participated the training for an hour per session and completed total 20 sessions during four weeks. Outcome measures were chosen as the maximum joint torque and cocontraction ratio between the biceps/triceps brachii

The objective of this study was to compare the efficacy of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) with 120 compressions per minute (CPM) to CPR with 100 CPM in patients with nontraumatic out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. We randomly assigned patients with nontraumatic out-of-hospital cardiac arrest into two groups upon arrival to the emergency department (ED). The patients received manual CPR either with 100 CPM (CPR-100 group) or 120 CPM (CPR-120 group). The primary outcome measure was sustained res

Objective: To quantify the cumulative effective dose (cED) of radiation due to repeated CT and PET/CT examinations after curative resection of gastric cancer and to assess the lifetime attributable risk (LAR) estimates based on Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiation VII models. Subjects and Methods: Patients who underwent a curative resection for gastric cancer between January 2006 and December 2006 and were followed-up until May 2010 were included in this study. The cED was calculated by usin

Purpose: Severe hyperkalemia leads to significant morbidity and mortality if it is not immediately recognized and treated. The concentration of potassium (K+) in the serum increases along with deteriorating renal function. The use of point-of-care K+ (POC-K+) in chronic kidney disease (CKD) could reduce the time for an accurate diagnosis and treatment, saving lives. We hypothesized that POC-K+ would accuratelyreport K+ serum level without significant differences compared to reference testing, re

The short-time Fourier transform- (STFT-) based algorithm was suggested to distinguish falls from various activities of daily living (ADLs). Forty male subjects volunteered in the experiments including three types of falls and four types of ADLs. An inertia sensor unit attached to the middle of two anterior superior iliac spines was used to measure the 3-axis accelerations at 100 Hz. The measured accelerations were transformed to signal vector magnitude values to be analyzed using STFT. The powe

Liposuction is one of the most frequently performed cosmetic surgeries worldwide for reshaping the body contour. Although liposuction is minimally invasive and relatively safe, it is a surgical procedure, and it carries the risk of major and minor complications. These complications vary from postoperative nausea to life-threatening events. Common complications include infection, abdominal wall injury, bowel herniation, bleeding, haematoma, seroma, and lymphoedema. Life-threatening complications

The aim of this study was to assess quantitative muscle fatigue during isometric and isotonic contractions using a mechanomyography (MMG) and a computational geometry technique known as a convex hull algorithm. Twenty-five male volunteers participated in the experiment. The subjects performed knee flexion and extension exercises on an isokinetic dynamometer. A 3-axis accelerometer (x: longitudinal; y: medial-lateral; z: superior-inferior) was placed on the right rectus femoris muscle. The MMG si