Background:Sepsis is a life-threatening disease with high mortality and a poor prognosis,partly due to a lack of effective treatments.Therefore,more effective treatments are urgently needed.Methods:Eight databases wer...Background:Sepsis is a life-threatening disease with high mortality and a poor prognosis,partly due to a lack of effective treatments.Therefore,more effective treatments are urgently needed.Methods:Eight databases were searched for use of traditional Chinese medicine(TCM) for sepsis.A meta-analysis was performed using Stata 15.0 software.The 28-day mortality,length of hospital stay,and Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation Ⅱ(APACHE-Ⅱ) score were the outcomes of this study.The Cochrane Collaboration tool for assessing risk of bias was used for quality assessment.Results:Ten studies with a total of 847 patients were included in this meta-analysis.Compared with the control group,the experimental group had lower 28-day mortality(relative risk [RR] 0.67;95% confidence interval [CI] 0.53 to 0.84;P=0.001),shorter hospital stay(weighted mean difference [WMD]-2.17;95% CI:-3.2 to -1.14;P=0.000) and lower APACHE-Ⅱ score(WMD-2.164;95% CI:-3.236 to -1.091;P=0.000).Conclusion:Our results demonstrate that TCM together with standard Western medicine was associated with significantly lower 28-day mortality,APACHE Ⅱ scores,and shorter hospital intensive care unit stays,suggesting that TCM might be an effective alternative treatment for sepsis.展开更多
Almost all the atoms in the hyperfine sublevel F=4,m_(F)=0("clock level")of cesium ground state have been pumped out by using a laser diode tuned on the Cs-D2 line;and 15.2%population difference(|δoo|)which...Almost all the atoms in the hyperfine sublevel F=4,m_(F)=0("clock level")of cesium ground state have been pumped out by using a laser diode tuned on the Cs-D2 line;and 15.2%population difference(|δoo|)which is more than two times better than what the traditional magnetical selecting state method could provide is found.This experimental result can be applied into building an optically pumped Cs beam frequency standard and better performance will be expected.展开更多
基金The National Key Research and Development Program(2018YFC1705900)。
文摘Background:Sepsis is a life-threatening disease with high mortality and a poor prognosis,partly due to a lack of effective treatments.Therefore,more effective treatments are urgently needed.Methods:Eight databases were searched for use of traditional Chinese medicine(TCM) for sepsis.A meta-analysis was performed using Stata 15.0 software.The 28-day mortality,length of hospital stay,and Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation Ⅱ(APACHE-Ⅱ) score were the outcomes of this study.The Cochrane Collaboration tool for assessing risk of bias was used for quality assessment.Results:Ten studies with a total of 847 patients were included in this meta-analysis.Compared with the control group,the experimental group had lower 28-day mortality(relative risk [RR] 0.67;95% confidence interval [CI] 0.53 to 0.84;P=0.001),shorter hospital stay(weighted mean difference [WMD]-2.17;95% CI:-3.2 to -1.14;P=0.000) and lower APACHE-Ⅱ score(WMD-2.164;95% CI:-3.236 to -1.091;P=0.000).Conclusion:Our results demonstrate that TCM together with standard Western medicine was associated with significantly lower 28-day mortality,APACHE Ⅱ scores,and shorter hospital intensive care unit stays,suggesting that TCM might be an effective alternative treatment for sepsis.
文摘Almost all the atoms in the hyperfine sublevel F=4,m_(F)=0("clock level")of cesium ground state have been pumped out by using a laser diode tuned on the Cs-D2 line;and 15.2%population difference(|δoo|)which is more than two times better than what the traditional magnetical selecting state method could provide is found.This experimental result can be applied into building an optically pumped Cs beam frequency standard and better performance will be expected.
