应用无死腔气管插管提高正常和急性肺损伤兔的机械通气效率

目的：观察无死腔气管插管能否提高急性呼吸衰竭常规机械通气的效果。方法：应用一种新型无死腔气管插管和普通聚氯乙烯气管插管对正常和急性肺损伤兔进行常规通气，对两种气管插管的肺气体交换和气道内气体动力学及血流动力学变化进行比较。无死腔气管插管用２根Ｐｏｔｅｘ气管插管远端３ｃｍ处纵切后对粘而成。５只新西兰成年兔，麻醉下气管切开，在持续应用潘龙阻断自主呼吸条件下，随机用新型气管插管和普通气管插管Ｓｅｒｖｏ９００Ｃ进行机械通气，每次持续３０分钟，测定并记录动脉血压、气道压力、血流动力学参数和呼气末ＣＯ２浓度。结果：在正常肺和急性肺损伤条件下，新型气管插管可使所有动物的ＰａＣＯ２和生理死腔／潮气量（ＶＤ／ＶＴ）下降，ＰａＣＯ２分别下降１．４０±０．２０ｋＰａ（１ｋＰａ＝７．５ｍｍＨｇ）和１．６０±０．３０ｋＰａ（Ｐ＜０．０１），ＶＤ／ＶＴ分别下降０．１３±０．０２和０．１５±０．０４（Ｐ＜０．０１）；ＰａＯ２、气道压力和血流动力学无显著变化。结论：无死腔气管插管可明显提高常规机械通气效率。     

Unusual course of an epidural rhabdomyosarcoma of the upper thoracic spine

Summary This report deals with a case of rhabdomyosarcoma in the upper thoracic spine. It is of particular interest, not only for the rarity of type and location of this tumour, but for its clinical course, which presented fluctuations of neurological status, included an acute demonstration of complete paraplegia followed by full recovery after conservative treatment, and gradual relapsing of neurological deficit, one year later.     

新时期戏剧艺术探索的成就与困顿

八十年代初中期 ,中国戏剧积极拓展我国传统戏剧的时空观、写意性特征 ,大胆借鉴西方现代戏剧的荒诞化、意象性技巧 ,出现了探索创新、多元发展的崭新局面。其中对“三一律、一堵墙”戏剧观的突破 ,运用意识形象外显人物的内心世界 ,嫁接多种艺术手段将现实时空转化为艺术时空 ,是新时期戏剧艺术探索最突出的三项成就。而过分强调形式技巧 ,脱离观众欣赏习惯 ,致使演出市场萎缩 ,观众锐减 ,无疑是新时期戏剧艺术探索中面临的最大困顿。     

取消统编教材,开拓学术空间--关于取消中医院校统编教材之我见

中医院校的教材采用统编方式已不适合现代科技信息发展的需要，相反，取消中医统编教材，给院校和教师更多的主动权，有利于中医学新知识、新信息的传播，有利于教师参与教学研究，发挥独创精神，有利于学问的兼收并容和中医学术的发展，也有利于学生增强对专业的认识和信心，并有利于素质教育的开展。     

咽旁间隙原发性肿块流行病学分析

目的：对咽旁间隙原发性肿块进行流行病学分析。方法：对咽旁间隙原发性239例肿块进行统计分析。结果：原发良性肿瘤患病比为61．09％，其中上皮源性肿瘤患病比最高，占19.25％；神经源性肿瘤第二位，占17．57％。原发性恶性肿瘤的患病比为35．15％，其中上皮源性恶性肿瘤的患病比最高，占21.76％；恶性淋巴瘤第2位，占7．95％。炎症的患病比为3．77％，其中淋巴结反应性增生最高。结论：咽旁间隙原发性肿块良性肿瘤的患病比最高，恶性肿瘤次之，炎症居第3位，比例约为17：9：1。     

咽旁间隙在头颈部肿瘤MRI诊断中的价值

目的探讨咽旁间隙移位方向及肿瘤MRI信号特点对病变定位、定性的价值。方法回顾性分析经病理确诊的累及咽旁间隙肿瘤76例,其中恶性肿瘤51例,良性肿瘤25例。结果扁桃体肿瘤和鼻咽癌使茎突前间隙外移,腮腺肿瘤使茎突前间隙向前内移位,或(和)颈动脉鞘区后移。颈动脉鞘区交感神经鞘瘤使颈内动、静脉向前外侧移位,迷走神经鞘瘤使颈内动、静脉明显分离,颈动脉体瘤使颈内、外动脉分叉角增大,颈静脉球瘤使血管向前外侧移位,转移淋巴结使颈内动、静脉向前内侧移位。25例良性肿瘤边界清楚,其中9例信号均匀;51例恶性肿瘤中,19例边界模糊,15例信号欠均匀。茎突前间隙脂肪消失或不连续6例均为恶性肿瘤,肿瘤边界较清但颈部淋巴结肿大符合淋巴结转移诊断标准2例及颈内动、静脉被肿瘤包绕3例,病理证实亦为恶性肿瘤。结论咽旁间隙移位方向及肿瘤MRI信号特点对头颈部肿瘤的定位、定性具有重要的价值。     

Epidural blood patch illustrated by CT-epidurography

Four patients, who received epidural blood patch to treat postdural puncture headache, were examined with computed tomography in order to demonstrate the distribution of the injected blood. Blood alone could not be identified, but adding 2 ml contrast agent Iohexol 180 mg J/ ml (Omnipaque®, Nycomed Imaging) to 18 ml blood gave an excellent demonstration of the distribution of the blood in the epidural space, both cranio-caudally (7–14 segments) and spatially in relation to the epidural septae. The blood-contrast media had a strong affinity to the dural sac. There was no support of the spacefilling effect of blood patch.     

Advances in processing of surface myoelectric signals: Part 1

During sustained voluntary or electrically elicted muscle contractions the surface myoelectric signal is nonstationary and it undergoes progressive changes reflecting the modifications of the motor unit action potentials and their propagation velocity. In particular, during sustained electrical stimulation, the evoked signals show progressive amplitude, time scaling and shape modification. The quantitative evaluation of these changes is important for non-invasive muscle characterisation and may be performed in either the time or frequency domain using parametric and nonparametric spectral analysis as well as alternative methodologies. The paper introduces the detection techniques, reviews and compares the methods of spectral estimation based on FFT and autoregressive models, and discusses their applications and limitations in extracting information from the surface myoelectric signal with particular regard to myoelectric manifestations of localised muscle fatigue during sustained contractions.     

Array compression for MRI with large coil arrays.

Arrays with large numbers of independent coil elements are becoming increasingly available as they provide increased signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs) and improved parallel imaging performance. Processing of data from a large set of independent receive channels is, however, associated with an increased memory and computational load in reconstruction. This work addresses this problem by introducing coil array compression. The method allows one to reduce the number of datasets from independent channels by combining all or partial sets in the time domain prior to image reconstruction. It is demonstrated that array compression can be very effective depending on the size of the region of interest (ROI). Based on 2D in vivo data obtained with a 32-element phased-array coil in the heart, it is shown that the number of channels can be compressed to as few as four with only 0.3% SNR loss in an ROI encompassing the heart. With twofold parallel imaging, only a 2% loss in SNR occurred using the same compression factor.