During ablation procedures, tMCS patients showed higher rates of induced ventricular tachycardias (VTs), ablated VTs, VT termination and non-inducibility after ablation. Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) was applied in pediatric cases as hemodynamic protection for aggressive antiarrhythmic medical treatment with >80% survival. CONCLUSIONS Prophylactic tMCS is associated with improved survival as compared to rescue or no-tMCS in patients with life-threatening arrhythmia, and may be considered in patients with high PAINESD risk score or suffering from electrical storm. ECMO can be advised as rescue and support therapy in pediatric cases requiring aggressive antiarrhythmic medical treatment. Earlier work suggested that subjective life expectancy (SLE) functions as reference point in time trade-off (TTO), but has not tested or modelled this explicitly. In this paper we construct a model based on prospect theory to investigate these predictions more thoroughly. We report the first experimental test of reference-dependence with respect to SLE for TTO and extend this approach to standard gamble (SG).  https://www.selleckchem.com/products/necrostatin-1.html  In two experiments, subjects' SLEs were used to construct different versions of 10-year TTO and SG tasks, with the gauge duration either described as occurring above or below life expectation. Our analyses suggest that both TTO and SG weights were affected by SLE as predicted by prospect theory with SLE as reference point. Subjects gave up fewer years in TTO and were less risk-tolerant in SG below SLE, implying that weights derived from these health state valuation methods for durations below SLE will be biased upwards. OBJECTIVE To identify predictors of mortality and neurological function in adult ICU patients recovering from cardiac arrest. DESIGN A prospective cohort multicenter study was carried out. SETTING Forty-six polyvalent ICUs. PATIENTS A total of 595 patients recovering from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA, n=285) or in-hospital cardiac arrest (IHCA, n=310). MAIN OUTCOME VARIABLES Survival and recovery of neurological function. RESULTS The mean cardiopulmonary resuscitation time was 18min (range 10-30). Moderate hypothermia was used in 197 patients, and 150 underwent percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). Return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC) was achieved within 20min in 370 patients. Variables associated to mortality (ICU and in-hospital) were age (odds ratio [OR]=1.0, 95%CI 1.0-1.0 per year), non-cardiac origin of cardiac arrest (OR=2.16, 95%CI 1.38-3.38; P=0.001) and ROSC >20min (OR=3.07, 95%CI 1.97-4.78; P20min were predictors of mortality. In contrast, cardiac arrest of cardiac origin, ROSC less then 20min, and defibrillable rhythms were associated to unfavorable neurological outcomes. BACKGROUND The delayed graft function (DGF) in kidney transplantation (KT) is a risk factor for long-term poor graft survival. The pathogenesis is multifactorial but mainly related to an ischemia-reperfusion injury. However, the graft hemodynamics have been recently identified as a key aspect for early DGF risk assessment and potential therapeutic intervention. METHODS A pilot study on 20 single kidney grafts from donor after brain death with intraoperative measurement of graft arterial flowmetry, 30 minutes after reperfusion. Exclusion criteria were grafts with multiple arteries or severe atherosclerosis of the recipient's external iliac artery. RESULTS KT recipients with DGF (n = 4, 20%) were homogenous with controls (n = 16) in terms of cold ischemia time, donor age, recipients' hemodynamic parameters, renal artery, and recipients' external iliac artery diameters. Nonetheless, at transplant, the kidney grafts that developed DGF were characterized by a significantly higher renal artery resistive index (DGF vs no-DGF 0.96 ± 0.04 vs 0.77 ± 0.13, P = .02), as well as lower flow extraction rate (24.8% ± 11.8 vs 59.2% ± 21.1, P  less then .01). CONCLUSIONS Intraoperative arterial graft flowmetry seems to be an effective tool to identify grafts at high risk of DGF. Defenses mechanisms are defined as the tools an individual uses to manage instincts, drives, and affects. Transplantation is a stressful event that requires the body to mobilize its internal and external defenses and implement coping and adaptation strategies, which can be essential for overcoming the painful and potentially dangerous environmental, existential, and relational situations that may occur after transplantation. The aim of our study was to analyze the defense styles in 50 kidney transplanted subjects and to correlate the latter with any psychopathology and the quality of life subjectively perceived. The Defense Style Questionnaire was administered to evaluate the defense mechanisms. The Symptom Checklist-90-R (SCL-90-R) was used for the evaluation of any psychopathology. Quality of life was studied using the Complete Form Health Survey (SF-36). The "somatization" (SOM) and "anxiety" (ANX) dimensions of the SCL-90 R correlated significantly with the "reaction formation" (RF) neurotic defense (RF/SOM r = .893; RF/ANX r = .966; P  less then .05). A good perception of one's "general health" (GH) correlated significantly with the "humor" (HU) and "sublimation" (SU) mature defenses (HU/GH r = .681; SU/GH r = .524; P  less then .05). Kidney transplanted subjects are exposed to persistent physical and psychosocial stress and each transplanted subject uses their own defense mechanisms to contain the mental pain and reduce the emotional stress derived from the transplantation experience. Identifying the different kinds of defenses (mature, immature, or neurotic) can be an effective way to search for predictive indices of a good quality of life and adherence to treatments. Treatment of thoracic duct leaks can be very challenging. Intractable chlye leaks may require image-guided methods to increase the likelihood of treatment success. Near infra-red fluorescence is an easy-to-use nonionizing imaging method that has been described to detect thoracic duct leaks in open surgery or thoracoscopic interventions, yet no application to percutaneous sclerotherapy has been described. The authors suggest near infra-red fluorescence as a feasible and useful tool to guide percutaneous sclerotherapy.