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Ji C, Lall R, Quinn T, Kaye C, Haywood K, Horton J, Gordon V, Deakin CD, Pocock H, Carson A, Smyth M, Rees N, Han K, Byers S, Brace-McDonnell S, Gates S, Perkins GD. Post-admission outcomes of participants in the PARAMEDIC trial: A cluster randomised trial of mechanical or manual chest compressions. Resuscitation 2017; 118:82-88. [PMID: 28689046 DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2017.06.026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2017] [Accepted: 06/26/2017] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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BACKGROUND The PARAMEDIC cluster randomised trial evaluated the LUCAS mechanical chest compression device, and did not find evidence that use of mechanical chest compression led to an improvement in survival at 30 days. This paper reports patient outcomes from admission to hospital to 12 months after randomisation. METHODS Information about hospital length of stay and intensive care management was obtained through linkage with Hospital Episode Statistics and the Intensive Care National Audit and Research Centre. Patients surviving to hospital discharge were approached to complete questionnaires (SF-12v2, EQ-5D, MMSE, HADS and PTSD-CL) at 90days and 12 months. The study is registered with Current Controlled Trials, number ISRCTN08233942. RESULTS 377 patients in the LUCAS arm and 658 patients in the manual chest compression were admitted to hospital. Hospital and intensive care length of stay were similar. Long term follow-up assessments were limited by poor response rates (53.7% at 3 months and 55.6% at 12 months). Follow-up rates were lower in those with worse neurological function. Among respondents, long term health related quality of life outcomes and emotional well-being was similar between groups. Cognitive function, measured by MMSE, was marginally lower in the LUCAS arm mean 26.9 (SD 3.7) compared to control mean 28.0 (SD 2.3), adjusted mean difference -1.5 (95% CI -2.6 to -0.4). CONCLUSION There were no clinically important differences identified in outcomes at long term follow-up between those allocated to the mechanical chest compression compared to those receiving manual chest compression.
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- C Ji
- Warwick Clinical Trials Unit, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
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- Warwick Clinical Trials Unit, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
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- Kingston University and St George's University of London Joint Faculty Health, Social Care and Education, London, UK
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- Warwick Clinical Trials Unit, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
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- Warwick Clinical Trials Unit, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
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- Warwick Clinical Trials Unit, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
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- Warwick Clinical Trials Unit, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
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- South Central Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust, Otterbourne, UK; NIHR Southampton Respiratory Biomedical Research Unit, Southampton, UK
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- South Central Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust, Otterbourne, UK
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- West Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust, Brierley Hill, UK
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- Warwick Clinical Trials Unit, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK; West Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust, Brierley Hill, UK
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- Welsh Ambulance Services NHS Trust, Denbighshire, Wales, UK
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- North East Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
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- North East Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
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- Warwick Clinical Trials Unit, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
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- Warwick Clinical Trials Unit, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK; Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, UK.
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Shaikh MF, Shenker NG, Dale J, Else S, Stirling A, France J, Gordon MM, Hunter J, Porter D, Smith R, Khan J, Chan A, Paskins Z, John H, Hassell A, Rowe IF, Al-Mossawi MH, Chambers T, Greenbank C, Bronwen E, Halsey J, Bukhari M, Pearce FA, Lanyon P, Zakout S, Clarke L, Kirwan J, Marie Smith A, Lingard L, Heslop P, Walker DJ, Miller A, Johnston M, Timms A, Misbah S, Luqmani R, Bamji A, Lane J, Donnelly AA, Halsey JP, Bukhari MA, van Vollenhoven R, Cifaldi M, Roy S, Chen N, Gotlieb L, Malaise M, Ara R, Rafia R, Packham J, Haywood K, Healey E, Jones EA, Jones GT, Hannaford PC, Keeley P, Lovell K, McBeth J, McNamee P, Prescott GJ, Woby S, Macfarlane GJ, Munir M, Joshi AR, Johnson H, Smith EC, Poole CD, Lebmeier M, Currie CJ, Clark H, Rome K, Atkinson I, Plant M, Dixon J, Baskar S, Erb N, Whallett AJ, Arhinful-Adjapong A, Hawksley J, Tillett W, Green S, Tan WS, Pauling J, Michell L, Russell J, Derham S, Korendowych E, Bojke C, Cifaldi M, Ray S, Van Hout B, Grigor C, Porter D, Toner V, Stirling A, McEntegart A, Seng Edwin Lim C, Low ST, Joshi N, Walton T, Sanderson T, Morris M, Calnan M, Richards P, Hewlett S, Waller RD, Collins DA, Williamson LJ, Price EJ, Judge A, Dieppe PA, Arden NK, Cooper C, Carr A, Javaid K, Field R, Rafia R, Ara R, Lebmeier M. Health Services Research, Economics and Outcomes Research [86-113]: 86. What Happens to Patients with Complex Regional Pain Syndrome of Greater than 12 Months' Duration? Rheumatology (Oxford) 2010. [DOI: 10.1093/rheumatology/keq720] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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This investigation examined change in a motor pattern requiring multisegmented coordination in older adults. The overarm throw was observed longitudinally in 8 elderly individuals over 7 years. Data were evaluated using Roberton's (Roberton & Halverson, 1984) movement components. Contrasting the assumed pattern of aging, only small declines in movement form were observed. Individual cases revealed additional, noncategorizable declines within component categories, including slower movement speed and decreased range of motion. Increased trial-to-trial variability also was associated with change. These changes suggested that elderly participants coordinated their movements in a manner similar to younger participants but controlled them differently. The small changes observed in this investigation suggest that performance, at least for some skills, is more stable than traditionally assumed.
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- K Williams
- Department of Exercise and Sport Science, University of North Carolina-Greensboro, USA.
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Previous investigations of the movement patterns of older adults have focused on functional movements. Performance declines have been reported with increasing age. Many investigations, however, do not require older adults to perform maximal, force producing actions. Smaller declines might be observed if older adults made a maximal effort. This investigation examined changes in a maximal skill--the overarm throw for force. Active, older adults were videotaped as they threw tennis balls. Thirteen people were filmed for two consecutive years. Gender and age differences were examined for movement patterns, ball velocity, and selected kinematic measures. Participants threw using patterns and velocities generally observed in children in middle elementary-school years. This result suggested there was a decline in this force production skill. Some older adults regressed in the movement patterns they used over the two years of testing. Older males threw faster, using more advanced movement patterns than older females.
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- K Williams
- Department of Exercise and Sport Science, University of North Carolina, Greensboro 27412
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Research on children's performance on the Witkin Rod-and-frame Test has suggested that children rely heavily on contextual cues in perceiving verticality but that this reliance decreases with age. In the present study this developmental trend in children younger than those previously tested was studied. The effect on performance of the conventional practice of tilting subjects in a chair which rotates about a seat axis, thus displacing the head away from the stimulus, was also studied. After a short training session 14 boys and 11 girls, 4.70 to 10.95 yr. old, were given 12 trials of the standard test while tilted about a seat axis and, on another day, 12 trials while tilted about a head axis. Although the axis of tilt and the order of presentation were nonsignificant, data tended to confirm the existence of a developmental trend in young children. An alternate scoring procedure to investigate errors in the direction opposite frame-tilt indicated that the initial tilt of the rod relative to the frame significantly affects the accuracy of judgments of the vertical.
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Lyons JM, Carey CP, Conway M, Robinson G, Haywood K, Buckley E, Flasher MC, Morkos M, O'Flynn P, Gerrard A, Scott PM, Danaldson TE, Hay JL, Lurie IR, Mclean AI, Noble SC, Sanders M, Orr CW, Lunt S. Doctors' Pay. West J Med 1964. [DOI: 10.1136/bmj.1.5384.704-b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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