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Tilo Chopin
Retrospective cohort study. From 2016 until 2021, 63,371 adult severely injured patients were included into TraumaRegister DGU of the German Trauma Society (TR-DGU). We analyzed PCCD use over time and compared patients with multiple trauma patients and UPF, who received prehospital PCCD to those who did not (noPCCD). Groups were adjusted for risk of prehospital PCCD application by propensity score matching. Primary endpoints were hospital mortality, standardized mortality rate (SMR) and transfusion requirements.
We hypothesized that early application of PCCD in multiple trauma patients with unstable pelvic ring injury during the prehospital phase can prevent severe hemorrhagic shock and thus leads to a decrease in mortality and in transfusion requirements.
This is a retrospective cohort study of data from the TraumaRegister DGU (TR-DGU) of the German Trauma Society (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Unfallchirurgie, DGU). The registry was founded in 1993. The aim of this multi-center database is a pseudonymous and standardized documentation of severely injured patients.
Protocols and procedures for the prehospital use of PCCD are not standardized and it is unclear when and why a PCCD was applied to the patient or not. Since it is very likely that there are different perceptions among EMS providers as to whom a PCCD should be applied, a matched pairs analysis was performed based on a propensity score. The propensity score is equivalent to the probability that a PCCD will be applied. We used age, sex, prehospital crystalloid volume, catecholamine administration, intubation, chest tube application, first prehospital blood pressure and first prehospital GCS, use of tranexamic acid, injury mechanism, destination (Level 1 trauma center) and type of transport (ground; helicopter) in a multiple logistic regression analysis to predict prehospital PCCD use. Non-significant predictors were excluded from the model and categories with similar effects were merged. To each case with PCCD (PCCD) we matched one case with an identical (rounded percentage) propensity score but without application of PCCD (noPCCD).
Similar findings were reported elsewhere. For example, in a prospective multi-center trial from Germany found that 65.4% of all patients suspicious of pelvic ring injury received external pelvic stabilization at some point during the prehospital or early hospital phase. Of these, only 37.3% had a UPF. However, 34.7% of these patients had UPF but no form of external pelvic stabilization at all [15]. Another study found a similar large proportion of patients with pelvic ring injuries who had no binder applied (44.8%) and of whom 20% had an unstable injury [16].
Thus a 6 years data collection in an 80 million population (Germany) revealed not enough evidence to prove that prehospital PCCD application reduced mortality or prevented severe hemorrhagic shock in multiple trauma patients with UPF.
We have examined patients with multiple trauma. One possible explanation is that more than one source of bleeding may contribute to blood loss and severity of shock. Occult blood loss in compartments other than pelvis such as chest, abdomen and extremities (e.g. femur fractures) may complicate shock but may be inaccessible to bleeding control with PCCD. Perhaps the increase in mean arterial pressure after PCCD increased bleeding in other regions.
Further studies are needed to get to the heart of this therapeutic procedure. We strongly vote for a prospective trial with clearly defined indication, method and protocol in order to assess PCCD effectiveness in multiple trauma patients. Modular add-on questioners to the registry could offer one possible approach.
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The largest VQE simulation performed on quantum hardware so far is the Hartree-Fock (HF) study by Google14, in which they used a superconducting quantum computer to simulate the HF wave function for hydrogen chains up to 12 qubits and 72 entangling gates. However, the calculations faced a considerable amount of hardware noise, necessitating the use of Hartree-Fock specific error mitigation techniques to achieve sufficiently accurate results, which does not apply for non-HF wave functions. A more recent study by Google28 simulated a cyclobutene ring on a superconducting quantum computer with up to 10 qubits using pair-correlated wave functions. Here, the ansatz was classically pre-optimized on a simulator, leaving the final energy evaluation to be executed on the quantum device. Despite this, this calculation still required classical error mitigation techniques to achieve reasonable results for the final quantum energy evaluation.
Before running the circuit on quantum hardware, we first remove redundant parameters from the ansatz. The redundant parameters are the circuit parameters that do not contribute to the energy, and their amplitudes stay zero during the optimization process. For the H2O molecule, an example of redundant parameters are the amplitudes that correspond to pair excitations from the non-bonding orbital. In this study, we identify redundant parameters by tracking the evolutions of parameter amplitudes on a noise-free simulator, with all parameters started from zero. Parameters whose amplitudes stay at zero during the entire optimization process are identified as redundant parameters. It is worth noting that such an approach does not scale as the system size, and the running time on simulator becomes prohibitively expensive. Fortunately, there exist scalable approaches for identifying and simulating only non-redundant parameters, such as the gradient based selection used for the ADAPT-VQE17 method.
Our final example is the symmetric dissociation of the Li2O molecule. Li2O is one of the secondary reaction products in lithium-air batteries, which is believed to be a candidate for next-generation lithium battery due to its high energy density. We freeze the 1s orbital for Li and O, resulting in a circuit with 12 qubits and 64 CX gates. The results on an ideal simulator are shown in Supplementary Fig. 5. The difference in energy between oo-upCCD and FCI becomes more noticeable than in LiH and H2O. Such a difference is expected since the size of the Hilbert of Li2O is much larger than that of LiH and H2O, which means that there are a lot more electronic configurations that break electron pairs in Li2O, and these configurations will contribute to the correlation energy. Due to the pair-approximation made by oo-upCCD, these configurations are neglected, which then leads to a much larger amount of error v.s. FCI. Again, we find that orbital optimization does not make any noticeable amount of difference in equilibrium geometry, but becomes crucial in stretched geometries.
Güven and Loek Hartog (Netherlands/Black Falcon Team Textar) did a double shift this weekend: The two Carrera Cup drivers also tackled the season-opening round of the Le Mans Virtual Series and contested the esports event in simulators inside the Hospitality of the one-make cup. Hartog achieved sixth in his class at the four-hour race on the digital version of the Autodromo Nazionale Monza driving for the Proton Competition team, with Güven finishing two positions behind for the Porsche Esports Team.
Species delineation among prokaryotes is harder and more controversial than among eukaryotes [1], mainly due to the lack of species concepts [2, 3]. Historically, microbial species delineation has not been driven by theory-based concepts [3], but progressed through a series of empirical improvements in parallel with technical developments instead [1]. Recent advances in sequencing technologies have brought species delineation into the genomic era. A widely-used approach is the Average Nucleotide Identity (ANI), which computationally mimics DNA-DNA hybridization through overcoming its shortcomings including experimental complexity, labor-intensive operation and non-incremental results [4,5,6,7]. Other such approaches include the average amino-acid identity [8, 9] and the Microbial Species Identifier (MiSI) [10]. All these approaches are based on whole genomes and thus have higher resolution and more accurate and reliable than gene-based approaches, including those based on a single gene such as 16S rRNA [11] or those based on several housekeeping genes such as the species identification tool [12], multilocus sequence typing [13] and multilocus sequence analysis [14].
The FRAGTE approach was designed to use fragments rather than whole genomes. To use LSCs, FRAGTE divides each genome into fragments and selects a typical fragment to represent that genome. Besides, composition is genome-specific, as indicated by the two exceptions (Fig. 1), possibly due to (but not limited to) plasmid differences (Additional file 1: Figure S2). However, LSCs were drawn from empirically determined PCCD distributions (Fig. 3) and were not genome-specific. As a genome can be divided into multiple fragments, a GSC can be calculated as the mean intragenomic PCCD minus two SDs based on all its divided fragments with two additional restrictions (for details, see Materials and Methods). Taking 1779 queries with 60% genome completeness as an example, we found that their GSCs broadly ranged from 0.75 to 0.92, efficiently reflecting the individuality of each genome (Additional file 1: Figure S4). Therefore, we designed FRAGTE to use LSCs for genome selecting and then GSCs for genome filtering to ensure both high sensitivity and high specificity.
Due to its high sensitivity, high specificity, highly reduced number of sieved genomes and highly improved runtime for sieving closely related genomic pairs, all genome-based species-delineation approaches, including ANI [4,5,6], average amino-acid identity [8, 9] and MiSI [10], and even some multiple-gene-based approaches such as the species identification tool using 40 universal, single-copy phylogenetic marker genes [12], may benefit from FRAGTE to improve their efficiencies. Notably, our FRAGTE approach is modular and can be easily integrated into these species-delineation tools. We anticipant that it will replace TETRA to improve computational efficiency.
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