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In a new joint system designed to accelerate the process of getting veterans' benefits to wounded troops more efficiently, the Department of Veterans Affairs is "way ahead" of the Pentagon, the Army's No. 2 officer lamented Monday.
"We are losing ground because commanders are not involved to the level they should be, given the potential impact this has on the overall readiness of our force," said Gen. Peter Chiarelli, the Army's vice chief of staff at a wounded warrior transition conference in Orlando, Fla.
DoD and VA began the Integrated Disability Evaluation System, or IDES, as a 2008 pilot program intended to shorten the length of time it took for wounded servicemembers to start receiving VA benefits. Under the old system, the average processing time was 540 days per wounded warfighter, in part, because the two departments were duplicating one another's processes with each adjudicating a servicemember's status separately. Under IDES, DoD and VA are aiming for an average of 295 days from start to finish.
In the meantime, DoD is falling behind in the joint project, Chiarelli said.
"The VA is well ahead of us," he said, repeating the statement for emphasis. "In every single area, the VA has a better handle of meeting the goals, and they have much better tracking numbers than we do. Secretary (of Veterans Affairs Eric) Shinseki's deputy, John Gingrich has taken this on himself, and he is like a bull in a china closet making sure that VA lives up to its part of the deal."
Chiarelli said in some ways, IDES actually has increased the amount of time that parts of the disability evaluation process take. And while he said speed is not always the best metric of the quality of the system, he said DoD is falling behind with IDES. Since January 2008, the rate at which new cases come into the system has increased 160 percent, while case processing time has also increased 48 percent.
"It currently takes an average of 258 days for a soldier just to complete the physical evaluation board. It's even longer before that individual actually starts receiving VA benefits," he said.
But Chiarelli thinks the problem is much worse than that. He said some military units are holding back on entering servicemembers into the new IDES system so that their processing time looks better on paper than it truly is.
"We found that at a couple posts, camps and stations, in order to keep their numbers down they've held onto files until they're almost complete, and then they put the individual into the IDES system. An individual that's not in the IDES system is just as non-deployable as person who's put into the IDES system."
Last week, Congress heard first-hand evidence that IDES is failing to streamline the disability evaluation process. Crystal Nicely, who has been helping to care for her husband, Todd, since he lost both arms and legs while serving as a Marine in Afghanistan last year, told the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee that his transition out of the military has been difficult and slow.
"Todd has been part of the IDES system, which I understand is supposed to be faster. That has not been our experience," Nicely said. "At one point, a simple summary of my husband's injuries sat on someone's desk for almost 70 days, waiting for approval. I thank Chairman {Patty} Murray (D-Wash.) for helping to get the issue resolved, but it shouldn't take me talking to a United States senator to help my husband. More importantly, what about all the other wounded Marines who haven't had a chance to ask for that kind of help?"
Chiarelli said in order to speed things up, military commanders need to treat the warrior transition process as their responsibility and not leave it to the military's medical authorities.
"What frustrates me the most, and I'm probably going to ruffle some feathers here, has been the lack of leader involvement in the process," he said. "When I looked into this, I found many commanders were focused on other things or were relying their staffs to deal with these issues. This is commanders' business, plain and simple. It's too important to leave it to the staff or doctors to figure out how to implement IDES effectively. We're not going to fix the system at the levels of the office of the secretary of defense or the headquarters of the department of the Army. This has got to be fixed at the local level."
DoD plans to have IDES implemented at all 139 of its planned sites across the country by the end of this year. But Deputy Defense Secretary Bill Lynn told Congress earlier this year that the Pentagon expects it will take up to another two years to eliminate the backlog of cases in which servicemembers are simultaneously in the old systems and the new one. Until then, the military does not expect to meet its goal of transitioning wounded warriors through the evaluation system within 295 days.
Faster VA-DoD disability evaluations still far off
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A truncated conical segment is made by the steps of longitudinally welding two pieces of metal, then contour rolling the weldment to preferentially reduce one of the pieces of the weldment more than the other. This provides a skewed trapezoid shape which is then 3-roll formed into a ring having a conical shape. The angle of the cone is a function of the preferential reduction in the second contour rolling step.
1. The method of forming a conical segment from sheet metal characterized by
(a) providing a first piece of material having a first length, a first cross sectional area and a first thickness;
(b) butt welding to the first piece of material a second piece of material having a second length, a second cross sectional area and a second thickness greater than the thickness of the first piece, to form a weldment having a weld joint running along the lengths of the abutting pieces;
(c) rolling the weldment to reduce the cross sectional area of the second piece section more than the cross sectional area of the first piece section, to make uniform the cross section thickness of the conical segment in the vicinity of the weld joint and thereby increase the length of the second piece section more than the length of the first piece section and make the weldment into a skewed shape;
(d) rolling the skewed shape weldment to form it into a circle so that the opposing lengthwise ends of the weldment come into close proximity, the second piece section thereby forming a portion of a cone which is larger in average diameter compared to the average diameter of the portion comprised of the first piece section.
2. The method of claim 1 characterized by welding the lengthwise ends after the rolling step and then further shaping the cone to a final shape.
3. The method of claim 1 characterized by adding sufficient filler to the weld joint made during step (b) so that the weld has a thickness equal to the thickness of the second section at the end of step (b).
4. The method of claim 1 characterized by contour rolling the first piece of material to a first cross sectional contour shape using a first contour roll; and using the same contour roll in step (c) to roll the weldment, said step (c) insubstantially changing the contour of the first piece and substantially changing the thickness of the second piece and the weld joint therebetween.
5. The method of claim 2 characterized by stretch forming the joined cone shape to expand its average diameter by up to about 5 percent.
6. An article made up by the method of claim 1.
1. Technical Field
The present invention relates to the field of metalworking, more particularly to the forming of complex cross section conical metal rings.
2. Background Art
There are many manufactured articles in which ring shaped metal structures are used. When the finished rings are relatively thin walled, there can be considerable waste of material during the machining if the initial preform is made to an inefficient shape. For this reason, it is seldom preferred that the starting structure be a portion of billet or plate. More typically, the starting structure is a piece of forged or wrought material, a casting, or a weldment.
The problem of producing relatively fragile ring shaped structures is particulrly evident in the manufacture of gas turbine engines. In this type of machine, the metals tend to be difficult to work because of their required high strength properties. In addition, for aircraft applications the rings are often very thin to reduce weight. This means that the use of even relatively close tolerance forgings and castings can produce considerable machining waste.
Consequently, ring rolling techniques are often used to make ring preforms. Most generally, this comprises forming a relatively crude first ring shape and then rolling the shape in the appropriate machine to change its diameter and cross section to nearly that which is desired. The starting material for the first ring shape is most commonly a forging or other form of wrought material such as a pierced plate. Also quite common is the practice of taking a piece of bar stock, rolling it into a ring of a first diameter and butt welding the ends of the bar where they meet. In the ring rolling to a second larger diameter the weld is inherently and desirably worked simultaneously with the original material.
Machines for ring rolling are described generally in the technical literature. U.S. Pat. No. 3,999,416 to Brooks is particularly concerned with the forming of contoured rings usable in gas turbine engines. The technique disclosed by Brooks comprises particular successive cold rolling operations between a multiplicity of contoured dies.
Making conical sections is more difficult than making straight cylinder sections. By way of example, the most common way to make a truncated cone of flat sheet metal is to cut a shaped preform from a flat sheet, and then to use a 3-roll or 4-roll mill to form the ring. See Metals Handbook, 8th Edition, Vol. 4, page 222, American Society for Metals, Metals Park, Ohio, and U.S. Pat. Nos. 4,195,509 to Herburg, 3,623,349 to Hausler and 3,279,229 to Lagher.
It has been said that flat-section rolling of metals is still an art rather than a science, having been adequately analyzed only in the last 30 years. Ring rolling confronts one with somewhat more complicated geometry than flat sections and therefore most aspects of the plasticity mechanics of cylindrical ring forming are not presently known. See "Rolling of Rings" by W. Johnson et al, International Metal Reviews 1979, No. 4 Page 137-148. Accordingly, since there is no "science" of the making of conical rolled rings, artful improvements are much desired insofar as wasting as little material as possible and achieving the greatest economy possible.
An object of the invention is to provide an efficient way of making a truncated sheet metal cone; where the cross section of the article is contoured to relatively precise dimensions. A further object of the invention is to provide a method for forming nickel superalloys into shapes suited for the construction of liners for gas turbine combustors.
Generally, the invention involves longitudinally form rolling a workpiece so that one portion of the cross section is reduced more than the opposing portion. This produces a skewed trapezoidal shape which when 3-roll formed into a ring will have the shape of a cone.
According to the preferred practice of the invention, two sections of straight stock are joined by a longitudinal weld, each section having a particular previously formed contour. By way of example, a T-shaped cross section bar stock may be joined to a piece of flat plate. Then the weldment is longitudinally rolled by passing it through contour rolls which reduce one section more than the other section. For example, the first section might be reduced 10% while the second stock section might be reduced by 30%. The contour of the cross section of the weldment which issues from the contour rolling mill will be substantially that contour which is desired in a rolled ring. During the contour rolling step the weld zone will be desirably reduced in cross section to aid in improving its properties. Because of the different amounts of reduction, the workpiece issuing from the contour rolling mill will be longer at one longitudinal edge than it is on the opposing longitudinal edge. Next, the workpiece is made circular, such as by passing it through a conventional 3-roll mill. By progressively closing the space between the rolls during repetitive passes, a ring will be formed and the ends will approximately abut. The shape of the now circular workpiece will approximate a truncated cone. Preferably, the ends of the cone overlap and they are carefully trimmed and welded. The welded cone is then rerolled or otherwise sized to its final desired dimension, depending on the precision required.
Any approximate shape of cone can be produced by varying the relative reductions in area at the opposing longitudinal pieces of the workpiece prior to its being made circular after contour rolling. The differential in percentage reduction will be approximately reflected in the differential in lengths of the corresponding sides. The cone angle will be determined accordingly.
The invention requires relatively uncomplex contour rolls which are not subjected to the scuffing which characterizes some alternative methods. In addition, the method allows the use of low cost mill forms as starting materials and enables good circumferential weld properties to be achieved.
The foregong and other objects, features and advantages of the present invention will become more apparent from the following description of preferred embodiments and accompanying drawings.
FIG. 1 shows a combustor liner segment having the shape of a truncated cone made in the practice of the invention.
FIG. 2 is a cross section through the structure shown in FIG. 1.
FIG. 3 shows the sequential steps in the practice of the invention.
FIG. 4 shows the elementary shape of the part produced as a result of step C3 shown in FIG. 3.
FIG. 5 illustrates 3-roll forming of the piece shown in FIG. 4, to make it into a circle.
FIG. 6 illustrates an alternate embodiment of the invention wherein welding is not used.
The present invention is described in terms of the construction of a conical segment of a combustor liner for a gas turbine engine, such as is described in U.S. Patent Application Ser. No. 227,317 now U.S. Pat. No. 4,380,906 filed on January 22, 1981 by J. A. Dierberger. However, it will be appreciated that the invention will be useful in the manufacture of conical sheet metal segments for other applications as well.
Combustor liners are made of high temperature superalloys. The invention is illustrated in the manufacture of a liner segment made from the alloy Hastelloy X (by weight percent 22Cr, 18.5Fe, 1.5Co, 0.10C, 0Mo, 0.6W, balance Ni). As will be evident, the invention will be useful with any material which may be roll formed and welded to itself, including certain non-metals.
Combustor liners are annular shaped structures which can be comprised of a series of mating truncated conical segments. See U.S. Pat. Nos. 4,077,205 and 3,978,662. The shape of a typical combustor liner 40 is shown in FIG. 1. The conical angle may vary; as defined herein the conical angle is half the included angle of the cone, having a value of the angle P between the cross section of the liner 40 and centerline 42' shown in FIG. 2. Typically, the conical angle of combustors ranges up to 35�. Based on the development to date, the invention herein will be at least useful for conical segments having angles up to 54�.
The following is an example of the preferred practice of the invention when making a conical liner having a cross section like that shown in FIGS. 1 and 2. The steps of manufacture are illustrated in FIG. 3. Generally, conventional mill starting shapes are used; they are contour rolled to a first set of precision dimensions, then welded to each other, contour rolled again, and then formed into a circular shape which comprises a truncated cone. Referring to the sequence A in FIG. 3, a 16 mm diameter round bar at Al is contour rolled in steps A2 and A3 to a particular cross sectional shape 10. The contour rolling is done in a multiplicity of passes through a conventional two-high rolling mill; annealing at 1150� C. (1) hour is intermittently used to ease the task and avoid working fracture in the metal. When the piece 10 is compared at step A3 to its condition at step A1 the cross sectional area is substantially reduced and of course the length of the piece is accordingly increased substantially. As is well known, the nature of contour rolling may be characterized by this result. In the Figure, the lateral dimension of the piece in step A3 is increased by about 20% over the width which the part had in step A1.
In similar fashion, a piece of flat strip shown at step B1 is contour rolled to a flanged channel section 11 as shown at B2. Next, the section is axially slit or sawed as shown at B3 to form the section into two separate pieces 12 and 14. Piece 12 is used in the succeeding steps while piece 14 may be used to make another assembly.
At step C1, the piece 12 is butt welded to the piece 10, along a lengthwise weld joint 16, thereby forming the weldment workpiece 18. Very importantly, in the preceding operations the thickness T1 of the piece for 12 was made thicker than the thickness T2 of the piece 10, both thicknesses being those measured in the vicinity of the weld joint. Filler is added to the weld to make the weld zone essentially of a thickness T1, as needed to obtain good working of the weld.
The workpiece 18 is then passed through contour rolls which are shaped to provide a cross sectional shape which is very nearly that desired in the final article (other than it might be modified somewhat in the preferred or optional steps mentioned below). In this contour rolling step C1 the thickness T1 of piece 12 is substantially reduced to a new thickness T3, preferably slightly less than T2. Alternatively stated, the cross sectional area of the section 10 is reduced only by a relatively small amount, or not at all, while the cross section of the piece 12 is substantially reduced. This results in a skewed (curved) trapezoidal workpiece 18 having a length L1 at the section 12 side which is longer than the length L2 at the section 10 side as shown in FIG. 4. It is possible to reduce substantially the cross section of the piece 10 in step C2, so long as the cross section of the piece 12 is reduced by a greater amount.
We have found that a single contour rolling pass is all that is needed to progress from the configuration shown in step C1 to that shown in step C2, when T3 is about 75% of T1. Multiple rolling steps with annealing might be used as required by the amount of reduction and the material properties. As an example of this part of the invention, the dimension T2 would be 1.4 mm while the dimension T1 would be 1.65-1.78 mm. After the completion of the C2 step, the thickness T3 would be about 1.27 mm. For a workpiece which had a length of about 3.04 m, and an overall width of about 3.7 cm, the length L1 would be made relatively about 12% bigger than the length L2. The resultant cone angle will be nominally a reflection of the change in lengths and the width dimension of the workpiece. The observation is that the proportion of length changes of opposing section edges is somewhat less than the proportion of cross section reduction. This is a function of the complex dynamics of metal flow in working the non-uniform cross section workpiece. Resonable experiment with particular workpieces will establish the relationship between the initial and final dimensions of the workpiece in step C2.
In the next step C3, the part is passed through a 3-roll or 4-roll apparatus. This is a conventional ring-forming apparatus, as illustrated in FIG. 5. The roll 20 is progressively moved closer to the fixed rolls 22, 24 during successive passes of the workpiece 26 through the apparatus. The 3-roll forming is continued until the opposing ends of the workpiece overlap somewhat. Then, the workpiece is removed from the 3-roll machine and the opposing ends are trimmed to the desired circumferential length and then butt welded along an axial joint 28 as shown in FIG. 1 to form the cone 40. Because the length L1 is made previously greater than the length L2, the circular workpiece has the shape of a truncated cone.
The smaller length of the first piece 10 has resulted in a portion of the cone 40 having an average diameter D10 which is smaller than the average diameter D12 of the portion formed from the piece 12. Accordingly, it can be appreciated that the conical angle will be determined by the relative reductions of the two abutting sections 10, 12 of the workpiece 18. Naturally, if a cone having the reverse taper of that just described was desired, the cross sectional area of the piece 10 would be reduced by a greater amount than the cross sectional area of the piece 12.
For applications where good dimensional accuracy is required, such as is the case with combustor liners, the cone formed by the preceding steps can be stretched or shrunk after welding using a machine having an expandable mandrel or collapsible external die. Such a machine is commercially sold, such as Model H180-200 manufactured by Cemco Inc., Louisville, Kentucky U.S.A. Stretch forming will usually be employed to increase the diameter by 0.5-5 percent. Other shaping and forming operations as are known in the prior art may also be used to further alter the dimensions of the cone shape after the longitudinal ends are joined at the axial weld.
It will be readily appreciated by those with skill in the working of sheet metal that simply cutting a trapezoidal shape from flat material and passing the shape through a regular 3-roll mill will not result in a conical shape like that of our invention. While a conical section can be so made by forcing the abutting edges together, the opposing ends of the cone will not lie in opposing planes.
In the manufacture of combustor liners for gas turbine engines, it is important that good properties be achieved along the longitudinal/circumferential weld joint 16 shown in FIGS. 1, 3 and 4. Consequently, the weld thickness is preferably made to comply with the thickness of the section which is being reduced, namely thickness T1 of piece 12 in the Figure. This insures that the weld may be properly worked. Subsequent to step C3, after the workpiece has been welded to form the structure shown in FIG. 1, the liner is heat treated to recrystallize the weld and obtain the desired fatigue properties. There is a criticality in the working and heat treatment of the weld, as is disclosed in more detail in the co-pending application of Sines et al., Ser. No. 440,674, filed on Nov. 10, 1892. Preferably, the cross sectional area of the weld is reduced by at least 20 percent and the weld is heat treated at 1150�-1175� C. for one hour.
Of course, it is not necessary that the workpiece be a weldment in the practice of our essential invention. For instance, as illustrated by FIG. 6 a piece of flat bar stock shown at D1 can be formed by contour rolling to a first shape illustrated at D2. This shape has a first portion 30 and an abutting second portion 32. In the next step D3, the portion 30 is reduced in cross sectional area while the portion 32 is not reduced as much. This makes a cone with a taper the reverse of that described above.
For a shape as complex as we show herein, the procedure shown in FIG. 6 is generally less preferred for two reasons. First, there is undue movement of metal required to make the shape shown at D2. Second, two sets of contour rolls are required, a first set to make the shape shown at D2, and a second set to make the shape shown at D3. In contrast, using the procedure shown in FIG. 3, the same set of contour rolls used in the sequence of step C2 may be used for the separate operations shown in the sequences A and B. In the preferred procedure described for the FIG. 3 sequence it will be appreciated also that the maximum rolling force and the size of rolling mill required will be reduced from that required by the FIG. 6 sequence.
Although this invention has been shown and described with respect to a preferred embodiment, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that various changes in form and detail thereof may be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the claimed invention.
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The Treatment Effectiveness Assessment (TEA): an efficient, patient-centered instrument for evaluating progress in recovery from addiction
Authors Ling W, Farabee D, Liepa D, Wu LT
Published Date December 2012 Volume 2012:3(1) Pages 129—136
DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/SAR.S38902
Received 7 October 2012, Accepted 31 October 2012, Published 6 December 2012
Walter Ling,1 David Farabee,1 Dagmar Liepa,2 Li-Tzy Wu3
1Integrated Substance Abuse Programs, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA; 2Valley Care Medical Center, Panorama City, CA, USA; 3Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
Abstract: The fields of addiction medicine and addiction research have long sought an efficient yet comprehensive instrument to assess patient progress in treatment and recovery. Traditional tools are expensive, time consuming, complex, and based on topics that clinicians or researchers think are important. Thus, they typically do not provide patient-centered information that is meaningful and relevant to the lives of patients with substance use disorders. To improve our ability to understand patients' progress in treatment from their perspectives, the authors and colleagues developed a patient-oriented assessment instrument that has considerable advantages over existing instruments: brevity, simplicity, ease of administration, orientation to the patient, and cost (none). The resulting Treatment Effectiveness Assessment (TEA) elicits patient responses that help the patient and the clinician quickly gauge patient progress in treatment and in recovery, according to the patients' sense of what is important within four domains established by prior research. Patients provide both numerical responses and representative details on their substance use, health, lifestyle, and community. No software is required for data entry or scoring, and no formal training is required to administer the TEA. This article describes the development of the TEA and the initial phases of its application in clinical practice and in research.
Keywords: substance use disorders, global treatment progress, brief instrument, patient-centered
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Michael Izquierdo, Heather Lind, Sebastian Arcelus, Vanessa Ray, Bill English
An alcoholic paraplegic endures an intervention by his concerned friends in Craig DeFolco's indie drama.
A reclusive, alcoholic paraplegic suffers through an unannounced visit from his concerned friends in The Last Day of August, Craig DiFolco's drama about an intervention which will leave you feeling as if you've gone through one yourself. This static, talky effort ultimately doesn't justify its feature-length running time despite some strong performances and the occasional moving moment.
Thirty-year-old Dan (Michael Izquierdo) has been holed up in an upstate New York cabin for over a year after becoming paralyzed under circumstances that are not revealed until late in the film. One day three of his friends (Sebastian Arcelus, Bill English, Vanessa Ray) from the city show up, concerned about his not returning home when he had promised. Disturbed by his reclusiveness and excessive drinking, they desperately attempt to persuade him to clean up his act.
Composed of one long, drawn-out emotional confrontation after another, the film suffers from both its lack of specificity—the screenplay withholds crucial details for long periods of time, resulting not so much in suspense than incomprehension—and its lack of compelling dialogue and characterizations. The depressed Dan largely sits in his wheelchair and silently mopes, while the friends offer the sort of general banalities you'd hear at a twelve-step program meeting.
To be fair, there are a few scenes that generate dramatic power, such as an encounter between Dan's former fiancée (Ray) and his new townie girlfriend (Heather Lind) who sees nothing wrong with his behavior. Another moving moment occurs when Dan is agonizingly forced to listen to one of his past drunken voicemail messages.
But the film is mainly a claustrophobic slog through familiar themes that fails to generate much impact. By the time the backstory of Dan's anguished state is revealed viewers will have long since ceased to care.
Opened: Friday, Oct. 4 (Striped Entertainment)
Production: Arcelus Entertainment, Sunnyside Films
Cast: Michael Izquierdo, Heather Lind, Sebastian Arcelus, Vanessa Ray, Bill English
Director: Craig DiFolco
Screenwriters: Craig DiFolco, Sara Rempe
Producers: Sebastian Arcelus, Michael Izquierdo
Director of photography: Ben Wolf
Editor: Scott Pearson
Production designer: Allison R. Marx
Costume designer: Liam O'Brian
Composers: Will Connolly, Damon Daunno, Jonathan R. Pratt
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ABSTRACT: The goal of this study was to evaluate the ability of noninvasive programmed stimulation (NIPS) after ventricular tachycardia (VT) ablation to identify patients at high risk of recurrence. Optimal endpoints for VT ablation are not well defined. Of 200 consecutive patients with VT and structural heart disease undergoing ablation, 11 had clinical VT inducible at the end of ablation and 11 recurred spontaneously. Of the remaining 178 patients, 132 underwent NIPS through their implantable cardioverter-defibrillator 3.1 ± 2.1 days after ablation. At 2 drive cycle lengths, single, double, and triple right ventricular extrastimuli were delivered to refractoriness. Clinical VT was defined by comparison with 12-lead electrocardiograms and stored implantable cardioverter-defibrillator electrograms from spontaneous VT episodes. Patients were followed for 1 year. Fifty-nine patients (44.7%) had no VT inducible at NIPS; 49 (37.1%) had inducible nonclinical VT only; and 24 (18.2%) had inducible clinical VT. Patients with inducible clinical VT at NIPS had markedly decreased 1-year VT-free survival compared to those in whom no VT was inducible (<30% vs. >80%; p = 0.001), including 33% recurring with VT storm. Patients with inducible nonclinical VT only, had intermediate 1-year VT-free survival (65%). When patients with VT and structural heart disease have no VT or nonclinical VT only inducible at the end of ablation or their condition is too unstable to undergo final programmed stimulation, NIPS should be considered in the following days to further define risk of recurrence. If clinical VT is inducible at NIPS, repeat ablation may be considered because recurrence over the following year is high.Journal of the American College of Cardiology 04/2012; 59(17):1529-35. DOI:10.1016/j.jacc.2012.01.026 · 15.34 Impact Factor
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ABSTRACT: Despite advances in ablation of ventricular tachycardia (VT), recognized toxicity of amiodarone, and potential harm of implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) shocks, there appears to be reluctance to pursue catheter ablation. We tested the hypothesis that patients with structural heart disease and VT are referred late for ablation and may have worse outcomes as a result. Consecutive patients with VT and structural heart disease referred to a single center, between January 2008 and April 2009 were studied. Patients with prior VT ablations were excluded. Late referrals were defined as those with 2 or more episodes of VT, separated by at least 1 month. Ninety-eight consecutive patients were analyzed. Ninety-six percent of patients had an ICD implanted prior to ablation, 58% were in VT storm and 67% taking ≥400 mg daily of amiodarone or amiodarone intolerant (10%). Thirty-six patients fit the definition of early referral and 62 late. Overall acute procedural success was achieved in 89%. Amiodarone dose decreased from a mean and median of 559 and 400 mg daily preablation to 98 and 0 postablation (P < 0.01). Mean and median VT episodes decreased from 17 and 6 in the month preceding ablation to 1 and 0 in the 6 months following ablation (P < 0.01). In Kaplan-Meier analysis, the early referral group had superior 1-year VT free survival (P = 0.01). VT ablation is frequently reserved for patients receiving recurrent ICD shocks despite high dose amiodarone. Stronger consideration should be given to earlier referral for VT ablation in patients with structural heart disease.Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology 05/2011; 22(10):1123-8. DOI:10.1111/j.1540-8167.2011.02081.x · 2.88 Impact Factor
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ABSTRACT: Paralleling the growth in ablation of complex arrhythmias such as atrial fibrillation and ventricular tachycardia, advanced imaging technologies are becoming more commonplace in the care of the electrophysiology patients. Although intracardiac ultrasound remains the most commonly used imaging technique, advances in real-time MRI may change this in the future. We discuss the current use of intracardiac ultrasound, CT, including rotational angiography, MRI, with an emphasis on delayed-enhancement MRI, and positron emission tomography-CT in advanced ablation procedures. Image integration is emphasized and new technologies such as direct endoscopic visualization are discussed.Current Cardiology Reports 09/2010; 12(5):374-81. DOI:10.1007/s11886-010-0132-7
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The aparthotel offers a restaurant. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. Business-related amenities at this 4-star property consist of a 24-hour business center and a meeting room.
Public areas are equipped with high-speed wireless Internet access (surcharge). Event facilities measure 646 square feet (60 square meters). This Barcelona aparthotel also offers a health club, a library, and multilingual staff. Parking is available onsite for a surcharge.
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