Cardiac surgery: "Anaesthesiologists play a significant role in the management of cardiac surgical patients during the various stages of Cardiopulmonary Bypass. Anesthesia drug administration and maintenance , hemodynamic management, coagulation management, monitoring and prevention of complications and disasters (air embolism, vasoplegia, awareness under anesthesia, allergic reactions and MH), neuroprotection, and preventon of endorgan injury are important aims of anesthesia management during cardiopulmonary bypass. Communication and coordination between the surgical, anesthesia, and perfusion teams are key to the successful conduct of Cardiopulomary Bypass and cardiac surgery," Steven Bartels and Kathirvel Subramaniam emphasize in the new textbook "Extracorporeal Circulation in Theory and Practice".

Yoshua Bengio played a crucial role in the development of the machine-learning systems we see today. Now, he says that they could pose an existential risk to humanity.

An international study involving the Heart Center of the University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG) shows that pulsed field ablation is more effective, gentler and associated with fewer complications than other methods for treating atrial fibrillation. With the pulsed field method, the areas of the heart tissue responsible for the development of atrial fibrillation are specifically sclerosed by means of electrical impulses and not by heat or cold as with other methods. The results of the MANIFEST-17K study were published in the renowned journal Nature Medicine.

A mutation on the spike protein of the virus that causes COVID-19 could help it infect the brain by forcing it to use a cellular "back door."

ChatGPT's medical diagnoses are accurate less than half of the time, a new study reveals.

Scientists asked the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot to assess 150 case studies from the medical website Medscape and found that GPT 3.5 (which powered ChatGPT when it launched in 2022) only gave a correct diagnosis 49% of the time.

Previous research showed that the chatbot could scrape a pass in the United States Medical Licensing Exam (USMLE) — a finding hailed by its authors as "a notable milestone in AI maturation."

Gebhard Sammer and Annette Kroiß (University Gießen) present in ´Psychological Test and Assessment Modeling´ a new picture-based method that serves to capture the anticipation of social conflicts based on perception.

"Examinations commonly use either free-response (FR) or multiple-choice (MC) response formats, each with its advantages and disantvantages. Despite frequent reports of high construct equivalence between them, certain group differences based on differing person characteristics still need to be explained." Prof. Dr. Tuulia M. Ortner et al. "aimed to investigate how test takers´ characteristics and behavior - particularly test anxiety, risk propensity, conscientiousness, lecture attendance, and study time - impact test scores in exams with FR and MC format." The authors report in ´Psychological Test and Assessment Modeling´ (1/24):

Managers in international companies need to be transculturally competent to realise synergies available from cultural diversity and to communicate and integrate effectively across differences, Prof. Claude-Helene Mayer and Dr. Christian Martin Boness emphasize in their manual „Creating mental health across cultures – Coaching and training for managers“:

The male Y chromosome in humans is evolving faster than the X. Scientists have now discovered the same trend in six species of primate.

A woman kept ending up in the emergency room with excessive sleepiness, slurred speech and the scent of alcohol on her breath, but she had not ingested a drop of liquor. It turns out that microbes in her gut were brewing their own booze — and making her drunk.