Lebanese Dentists’ Preparedness to Deal With Medical Emergencies in Their Clinics: A National Survey by Antoine Choufani, Marianne Moussallem, Julia Bou Dib, Michèle Kosremelli Asmar, Joumana Stephan Yeretzian

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Exploring the functional diversity and metabolic activities of the human gut microbiome in Thai adults in response to a prebiotic diet by Amornthep Kingkaw, Preecha Patumcharoenpol, Narissara Suratannon, Massalin Nakphaichit, Sittiruk Roytrakul, Wanwipa Vongsangnak

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Evaluation of change in emergency care knowledge and skills among front-line healthcare providers in Ukraine with the Basic Emergency Care course: a pretest/post-test study by Sean M Kivlehan, Amy Allen, Olha Viun, Dmitry A Makarov, Daniel Schnorr, Sonny Patel, Sergii A Ryzhenko, Phuong Pham, Timothy B Erickson

“…Objective Evaluate the change in participant emergency care knowledge and skill confidence after implementation of the WHO-International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Basic Emergency Care (BEC) course.Design Pretest/post-test quasi-experimental study.Setting Mechnikov Hospital in Dnipro, Ukraine.Participants Seventy-nine participants engaged in the course, of whom 50 (63.3%) completed all assessment tools. …”
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Prisoners in the community: the open prison model in Catalonia by Marta Martí

“…Currently, she is working as an external consultant for the International Committee of the Red Cross in El Salvador and she is member of the Research Group in Criminology and Criminal Justice System of Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Spain). …”
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The Life Functioning Scale: A Measurement Tool Developed to Assess the Physical Functioning Abilities of Community-Dwelling Adults Aged 50 Years or Older by Yunhwan Lee, Eunsaem Kim, Jihye Yun, Jaewon Choi, Jinhee Kim, Chang Won Won, Miji Kim, Soongnang Jang, Kyungwon Oh, Jihee Kim

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Assessment of access and outcomes of kidney transplantation through the reforms of the Swiss organ allocation system by Massimiliano Bertacchi, Sylvie Ferrari-Lacraz, Jakob Nilsson, Agim Thaqi, Yvan Schmutz, Caroline Wehmeier, Thomas Schachtner, Thomas Mueller, Dela Golshayan, Julien Vionnet, Stefan Schaub, Fadi Haidar, Isabelle Binet, Jutta Thierbach, Urs Wirthmueller, Daniel Sidler, Franz Immer, Jean Villard

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Neoadjuvant Chemoradiotherapy Upregulates the Immunogenicity of Cold to Hot Tumors in Esophageal Cancer Patients by Yushi Nagaki, MD, PhD, Satoru Motoyama, MD, PhD, Yusuke Sato, MD, PhD, Akiyuki Wakita, MD, PhD, Hiromu Fujita, MD, PhD, Kohei Kemuriyama, MD, Ryohei Sasamori, MD, Shu Nozaki, MD, Kyoko Nomura, MD, PhD, Yoshihiro Minamiya, MD, PhD

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Exploring the clinical profiles and management of juvenile dermatomyositis in Africa: a survey of African rheumatology care providers by Jessica Perfetto, Laura B. Lewandowski, Dawn M. Wahezi, Vanessa Ogega, Joan Ahimbisibwe, Kate Webb, Christiaan Scott, Angela Migowa

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Modes of delivery and indications in women with COVID-19: a regional observational study in Japan by Shoichi Magawa, Shintaro Maki, Yuya Tamaishi, Naosuke Enomoto, Sho Takakura, Masafumi Nii, Kyohei Yamaguchi, Toru Hirata, Kenji Nagao, Yuka Maegawa, Kazuhiro Osato, Hiroaki Tanaka, Eiji Kondo, Tomoaki Ikeda

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Impact of aspirin on biochemical recurrence of prostate cancer after robot assisted radical prostatectomy in a multicenter retrospective cohort study by Shuhei Suzuki, Hiromitsu Negoro, Masashi Kubota, Takayuki Sumiyoshi, Ryoichi Saito, Tomoya Okuno, Takehiko Segawa, Shigeki Fukuzawa, Hiroyuki Onishi, Kodai Hattahara, Kanji Nagahama, Yuya Sekine, Ryoma Kurahashi, Kimihiro Shimatani, Atsuro Sawada, Shusuke Akamatsu, Hiroyuki Nishiyama, Takayuki Goto, Takashi Kobayashi

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Mitigating effects of Jiawei Chaihu Shugan decoction on necroptosis and inflammation of hippocampal neurons in epileptic mice by Qin Wang, Baijun Qin, Han Yu, Jiawei Zeng, Jingjing Fan, Qiong Wu, Rong Zeng, Haichun Yu, Xian Zhang, Mingfen Li, Yanying Zhou, Limei Diao

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Severe metabolic accumulation of VV116 in kidney transplant patients with impaired renal function: a case series report by Jiaying Zhang, Yuan Gao, Xiaoyun Miao, Wei Wang, Zhongkai Zhou, Yunyi Gao, Liwei Liu, Menghua Wu, Ke Ma, Ling Zhou, Yan Yang, Sha Meng, Yingmei Feng, Zhuorui Zhao, Wei Liu, Danlei Mou, Zixin Kang, Lianchun Liang, Zhongjie Hu

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Arterial Thromboembolism in Patients With Advanced Lung Cancer: Secondary Analyses of the Rising‐VTE/NEJ037 Study by Naoki Furuya, Yukari Tsubata, Takamasa Hotta, Toshihide Yokoyama, Masahiro Yamasaki, Nobuhisa Ishikawa, Kazunori Fujitaka, Tetsuya Kubota, Kunihiko Kobayashi, Takeshi Isobe

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Effect of ripasudil after trabeculectomy with mitomycin C: a multicentre, randomised, prospective clinical study by Kazuyuki Hirooka, Eri Nitta, Yoshiaki Kiuchi, Masaki Tanito, Shunsuke Nakakura, Tetsuya Baba, Hideaki Okumichi, Aisyah Muhlisah, Ariyanie Nurtania, Hiromitsu Onoe, Yotaro Matsuoka

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Esophageal Endoscopic Submucosal Dissection Assisted by an Overtube with a Traction Forceps: An Animal Study by Ken Ohata, Kuangi Fu, Eiji Sakai, Kouichi Nonaka, Tomoaki Tashima, Yohei Minato, Akiko Ohno, Takafumi Ito, Yosuke Tsuji, Hideyuki Chiba, Makoto Yamawaki, Hideyuki Hemmi, Teruo Nakaya, Junichi Fukushima, Nobuyuki Matsuhashi

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The Efficacy of Short-Duration Polyethylene Glycol plus Electrolytes for Improving Bowel Preparation of Colonoscopy in Patients with Chronic Constipation by Naohisa Yoshida, Yoshikazu Inagaki, Kohei Fukumoto, Hiroyuki Yoriki, Yutaka Inada, Takaaki Murakami, Yuri Tomita, Hikaru Hashimoto, Satoshi Sugino, Ryohei Hirose, Osamu Dohi, Ken Inoue, Yoshito Itoh

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Network pharmacology and multi-omics validation of the Jianpi-Yishen formula in the treatment of chronic kidney disease by Yuyan Li, Yueming Luo, Yilan Hu, Siting Li, Guandong Li, Wanyangchuan Zhang, Xiufen Gu, Jianting Wang, Shunmin Li, Hong Cheng

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Etiology of Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia (HAP) and Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia (VAP) in Tertiary-Care Hospitals in Thailand: A Multicenter, Retrospective Cohort Study by Rongrungruang Y, Plongla R, Pleumkanitkul S, Hantrakun V, Khawcharoenporn T

“…Yong Rongrungruang,1 Rongpong Plongla,2 Suwapan Pleumkanitkul,3 Viriya Hantrakun,4 Thana Khawcharoenporn5 1Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand; 2Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine and Center of Excellence in Antimicrobial Resistance and Stewardship, Chulalongkorn University and King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital, Thai Red Cross Society, Bangkok, Thailand; 3Samitivej Hospital Sukhumvit, Samitivej Public Co., Ltd., Bangkok, Thailand; 4Real World Solutions APAC, IQVIA Inc., Bangkok, Thailand; 5Infectious Diseases Unit, Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Thammasat University, Pathumthani, ThailandCorrespondence: Thana Khawcharoenporn, Infectious Diseases Unit, Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Thammasat University, Pathumthani, Thailand, 12120, Email kthana@tu.ac.thPurpose: To describe the top three causative organisms of hospital acquired pneumonia (HAP) and ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) in Thailand.Patients and Methods: This multi-center retrospective cohort study included HAP/VAP patients hospitalized in 2019 in three university-affiliated hospitals and a private hospital in Bangkok, Thailand. …”
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Evaluating Pericoronary Adipose Tissue Attenuation to Predict Cardiovascular Events by Takahiro Nishihara, MD, PhD, Toru Miyoshi, MD, PhD, Kentaro Ejiri, MD, PhD, Kazuhiro Osawa, MD, PhD, Soichiro Fuke, MD, PhD, Kousuke Seiyama, MD, Masayuki Doi, MD, PhD, Mitsutaka Nakashima, MD, PhD, Takashi Miki, MD, PhD, Shinsuke Yuasa, MD, PhD

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Prevalence, incidence and determinants of QuantiFERONTM positivity in South African schoolchildren by J. Stewart, N. Walker, K. Jennings, C. Delport, J Nuttall, A.K. Coussens, R Dyers, D.A. Jolliffe, J.C.Y. Tang, W.D. Fraser, R.J. Wilkinson, L.-G. Bekker, A.R. Martineau, K. Middelkoop

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