Jaehoon Oh

• M.D, PhD
• Professor at Hanyang University

Urinary stone size is key in determining treatment. Although computed tomography (CT) scans are widely used for diagnosing urinary stones, measurements of stone size obtained from CT images may be inaccurate compared to actual size. Twenty-four urinary stone phantoms were 3D printed at three densities (100, 1000, and 3000 Hounsfield units [HU]) and...

Background: Extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation (ECPR) has the potential to improve neurological outcomes in patients with refractory out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA), offering an alternative to conventional cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CCPR). However, its effectiveness in OHCA remains controversial despite advancements in resuscita...

Background: Carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning can lead to significant morbidity and mortality. However, relatively few studies have investigated its long-term mortality impact. This nationwide population-based cohort study examined the association between CO poisoning and long-term mortality.Methods: This retrospective study utilized data from the Nat...

Assessing the neurologic outcomes of patients who experience out of hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) is challenging. Neurologic outcomes were evaluated using initial nutrition related biochemical markers. We used data from a multicentre retrospective observational study, the Korean Cardiac Arrest Resuscitation Consortium (KoCARC) registry. Among the...

Background The interaction between COVID-19 and tuberculosis (TB) is not yet fully understood, and large-scale research on the mortality outcome of such dual infection has been limited. This study aimed to investigate the impact of PTB on mortality among patients with COVID-19 within a Korean population by conducting an extensive analysis of a nati...

This study aimed to establish a deep learning-based predictive model for the prognosis of idiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing loss (SSNHL). Data from 1108 patients with SSNHL between January 2015 and May 2023 were retrospectively analyzed. Patients underwent standardized treatment protocols including high-dose steroid therapy and hearing outcom...

This study was performed to segment the urinary system as the basis for diagnosing urinary system diseases on non-contrast computed tomography (CT). This study was conducted with images obtained between January 2016 and December 2020. During the study period, non-contrast abdominopelvic CT scans of patients and diagnosed and treated with urinary st...

Background: Lactate is a commonly used biomarker for sepsis, although it has limitations in certain cases, suggesting the need for novel biomarkers. We evaluated the diagnostic accuracy of plasma renin concentration and renin activity for mortality and kidney outcomes in patients with sepsis with hypoperfusion or hypotension. Methods: This was a...

Background The COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly affected out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) and disrupted the chain of survival. Even after the end of the pandemic, the risk of new variants and surges persists. Analyzing the characteristics of OHCA during the pandemic is important to prepare for the next pandemic and to avoid repeated negative o...

Carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning is difficult to diagnose owing to its nonspecific symptoms. Multiwave pulse oximetry can be used to quickly screen patients for CO poisoning. However, few studies have analyzed patients with CO poisoning who presented to the emergency department (ED). The primary aim of our study was to determine the correlation betwe...

Background Assessing the neurologic outcomes of patients who experience out of hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) is challenging. Neurologic outcomes were evaluated using initial nutrition related biochemical markers. Methods We used data from a multicentre retrospective observational study, the Korean Cardiac Arrest Resuscitation Consortium (KoCARC)...

An acute brain lesion (ABL) identified by brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) after acute carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning is a strong prognostic factor for the development of delayed neuropsychiatric syndrome (DNS). This study aimed to identify predictors of ABLs on MRI in patients with acute CO poisoning. This was a multicenter prospective regis...

BACKGROUND The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has profoundly affected out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) and disrupted the chain of survival (CoS). Even after the end of the pandemic, the risk of new variants and surges persists. OBJECTIVE We aimed to investigate and compare the incidence, outcomes, and characteristics of OHCA dur...

Background: Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) is a major public health problem and a leading cause of death worldwide. Previous studies have focused on improving the survival of people who have had OHCA by analyzing short-term survival outcomes, such as the return of spontaneous circulation, 30-day survival, and survival to discharge. Research...

Arterial blood gas analysis (ABGA) is one of the few tests performed during cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). There have been some studies on the prediction of survival outcomes in adult out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) patients during CPR using ABGA results. However, in pediatric OHCA patients, the prognosis of survival outcome based on AB...

Background: Delayed neuropsychiatric sequelae (DNS) are a severe complication of carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning, and predicting DNS is difficult. This study aimed to investigate whether cardiac markers can be used as biomarkers to predict DNS occurrence following acute CO poisoning. Methods: This was a retrospective observational study that incl...

Importance: The recent American Heart Association guidelines added a sixth link in the chain of survival highlighting recovery and emphasized the importance of psychiatric outcome and recovery for survivors of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA). The prevalence of psychiatric disorders among this population was higher than that in the general po...

BACKGROUND Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) is a major public health problem and a leading cause of death worldwide. Despite studies suggesting an association between socioeconomic status (SES) and the outcomes of OHCA survivors, the majority of such investigations have only focused on short-term outcomes. Therefore, the effect of SES on the l...

Under the black-box nature in the deep learning model, it is uncertain how the change in contrast level and format affects the performance. We aimed to investigate the effect of contrast level and image format on the effectiveness of deep learning for diagnosing pneumothorax on chest radiographs. We collected 3316 images (1016 pneumothorax and 2300...

Objective: The COVID-19 pandemic might have adversely affected outcomes of patients in emergency departments (EDs). The aim of study is to evaluate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on in-hospital mortality in an ED. Methods: This study is a single-center, retrospective, observational cohort study. We compared the prognosis of patients admitte...

Purpose: This study investigates the characteristics and prognosis of acute poisoning patients visiting nationwide emergency departments before and after the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Data were obtained from the National Emergency Department Information System (NEDIS). Methods: This nationwide retrospective observational study i...

Acute thoracic aortic dissection is a life-threatening disease, in which blood leaking from the damaged inner layer of the aorta causes dissection between the intimal and adventitial layers. The diagnosis of this disease is challenging. Chest x-rays are usually performed for initial screening or diagnosis, but the diagnostic accuracy of this method...

A machine learning platform operated without coding knowledge (Teachable machine®) has been introduced. The aims of the present study were to assess the performance of the Teachable machine® for diagnosing tympanic membrane lesions. A total of 3024 tympanic membrane images were used to train and validate the diagnostic performance of the network. T...

Background: We aimed to identify the associations between depression or anxiety and long-term mortality in survivors of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA). Methods: We conducted a retrospective longitudinal cohort study using claims data from the Korean National Health Insurance Service (NHIS) database. We included OHCA patients (aged ≥18 years)...

Recent studies utilizing deep convolutional neural networks (CNN) have described the central venous catheter (CVC) on chest radiography images. However, there have been no studies for the classification of the CVC tip position with a definite criterion on the chest radiograph. This study aimed to develop an algorithm for the automatic classificatio...

Background: This study aimed to develop an algorithm for multilabel classification according to the distance from carina to endotracheal tube (ETT) tip (absence, shallow > 70 mm, 30 mm ≤ proper ≤ 70 mm, and deep position < 30 mm) with the application of automatic segmentation of the trachea and the ETT on chest radiographs using deep convolutional...

Aortic dissection is one of the most life-threatening acute aortic syndromes in which blood leaking from the damaged inner layer of the aorta causes dissection between the intimal and adventitial layers. With the recent development of deep learning technology for image recognition, we developed a deep learning algorithm for screening aortic dissect...

The rapid antigen test (RAT) has been adopted as a screening tool for SARS-CoV-2 infection in many emergency departments (EDs). We aimed to investigate the diagnostic value of the accuracy of the SARS-CoV-2 RAT as a screening tool in the ED. This retrospective observational study included patients who underwent both RAT and RT–PCR and visited the E...

Objective: To examine the association of inferior vena cava (IVC) diameter ratio measured using computed tomography with outcomes in patients with gastrointestinal bleeding (GIB). Methods: A single-center retrospective observational study was conducted on consecutive patients with GIB who presented to the emergency department. The IVC diameter r...

Purpose: This study aimed to develop and validate an automatic segmentation algorithm for the boundary delineation of ten wrist bones, consisting of eight carpal and two distal forearm bones, using a convolutional neural network (CNN). Methods: We performed a retrospective study using adult wrist radiographs. We labeled the ground truth masking...

The primary goal of treating carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning is preventing or minimizing the development of delayed neuropsychiatric sequelae (DNS). Therefore, screening patients with a high probability for the occurrence of DNS at the earliest is essential. However, prognostic tools for predicting DNS are insufficient, and the usefulness of the lac...

A significant number of people experience delayed neurologic sequelae after acute carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning. The Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) can be used to predict delayed neurologic sequelae occurrence efficiently and without any restrictions. Here, we investigated the association between a low GCS score observed in cases of early CO poisoning a...

We aimed to assess the evidence regarding the usefulness of brain imaging as a diagnostic tool for delayed neurological sequelae (DNS) in patients with acute carbon monoxide poisoning (COP). Observational studies that included adult patients with COP and DNS were retrieved from Embase, MEDLINE, and Cochrane Library databases in December 2020 and po...

Purpose: This study aimed to investigate the association between total serum cholesterol levels and outcomes upon discharge in patients after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA). Methods: We performed a retrospective observational study using the Korean Cardiac Arrest Resuscitation Consortium (KoCARC) registry. Patients after OHCA whose total...

Background We aimed to identify the long-term prognosis and causes of death of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) survivors. Methods Using claims data from the National Health Insurance Service (NHIS) database, we included 4,937 OHCA patients (aged ≥18 years) who were hospitalized between January 2005 and December 2015 and had survived for 30 d...

Purpose: It is known that the most common cause of gas poisoning in Korea is suicide attempts by burning ignition coals. Ignition coals are made from waste wood, and studies have been reported that heavy metals are emitted when this coal is burned. However, there was no study on how much heavy metal poisoning occurs in the human body through this,...

Background The effects of the body mass index (BMI) on outcomes of patients resuscitated from cardiac arrest are controversial. Therefore, the current study investigated the association between the BMI and the favourable neurologic outcomes and survival to discharge of patients resuscitated from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA). Methods This...

Background: Emergency departments (EDs) generally receive many casualties in disaster or mass casualty incidents (MCI). Some studies have conceptually suggested the surge capacity that ED should have; however, only few studies have investigated measurable numbers in one community. This study investigated the surge capacity of the specific number o...

Background: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has caused deaths and shortages in medical resources worldwide, making the prediction of patient prognosis and the identification of risk factors very important. Increasing age is already known as one of the main risk factors for poor outcomes, but the effect of body mass index (BMI) on C...

This study aimed to develop a method for detection of femoral neck fracture (FNF) including displaced and non-displaced fractures using convolutional neural network (CNN) with plain X-ray and to validate its use across hospitals through internal and external validation sets. This is a retrospective study using hip and pelvic anteroposterior films f...

Increased body mass index (BMI) is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease, stroke, and metabolic diseases. A high BMI may affect outcomes of post-cardiac arrest patients, but the association remains debatable. We aimed to determine the association between BMI and outcomes in patients with return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC) after out-of-hosp...

The present study aimed to develop a machine learning network to diagnose middle ear diseases with tympanic membrane images and to identify its assistive role in the diagnostic process. The medical records of subjects who underwent ear endoscopy tests were reviewed. From these records, 2272 diagnostic tympanic membranes images were appropriately la...

Background: Rapid triage reduces the patients' stay time at an emergency department (ED). The Korean Triage Acuity Scale (KTAS) is mandatorily applied at EDs in South Korea. For rapid triage, we studied machine learning-based triage systems composed of a speech recognition model and natural language processing-based classification. Methods: We s...

This study was created to assess whether a 30-mm depth of chest compression (CC) is sufficient and safe for neonatal cardiopulmonary resuscitation. This retrospective analysis was performed with chest computed tomography scans of neonates in 2 hospitals between 2004 and 2018. We measured several chest parameters and calculated heart compression fra...

Objective: Poisoning caused by the ingestion of amatoxin-containing mushrooms is life-threatening and requires urgent attention. However, only few studies have evaluated the factors that predict mortality owing to mushroom poisoning. We conducted a systematic review of amatoxin poisoning in South Korea and meta-analysis of the association between s...

This study aimed to assess the effectiveness of a novel chest compression (CC) smart-ring-based feedback system in a manikin simulation. In this randomized, crossover, controlled study, we evaluated the effect of smart-ring CC feedback on cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). The learnability and usability of the tool were evaluated with the System...

Introduction The risk of venous thromboembolism increases after acute carbon monoxide poisoning. However, studies on the characteristics of patients who develop venous thromboembolism after carbon monoxide poisoning are rare. The aim of this study was to identify the risk factors for venous thromboembolism within 3 months after carbon monoxide pois...

Recently, a smart-device-based chest compression depth (CCD) feedback system that helps ensure that chest compressions have adequate depth during cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) was developed. However, no CCD feedback device has been developed for infants, and many feedback systems are inconvenient to use. In this paper, we report the developme...

Following the publication of the original article [1], the authors unfortunately became aware of some typesetting and resolution problems in Figs. 1 and 2.

The collapsibility and diameter of the inferior vena cava (IVC) are known to predict the volume state in critically ill patients. However, no study has examined the prognostic value of the IVC diameter ratio measured on computed tomography (CT) in patients with septic shock. A retrospective observational study was conducted on adult septic shock pa...

This study aimed to verify a deep convolutional neural network (CNN) algorithm to detect intussusception in children using a human-annotated data set of plain abdominal X-rays from affected children. From January 2005 to August 2019, 1449 images were collected from plain abdominal X-rays of patients ≤ 6 years old who were diagnosed with intussuscep...

Objective: This study aimed to compare the diagnostic performance of cardiac biomarkers and to evaluate the optimal cut-off values for echocardiographic cardiac injury prediction in patients with carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning. Methods: This retrospective observational cohort study included adult patients with acute CO poisoning. Patients who di...

Background This study is aimed to identify the muscles that need to be trained for high-quality cardiopulmonary resuscitation by evaluating the muscles that are fatigued during chest compression in both kneeling and standing positions. Methods In this randomized crossover trial, 37 participants performed continuous chest compressions on a manikin...

Rapid response teams have been adopted to prevent unexpected in-ward cardiac arrest. However, there is no convincing evidence of optimal operation with rapid response team. Our aim was to address the impact of focused rapid response team on the safety of patients in wards. Comparison of focused with extended rapid response teams was performed in si...

Introduction The primary goal of treating patients with carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning is preventing delayed neuropsychiatric sequelae (DNS). It is difficult to predict DNS because there is no precise diagnostic method in the early phase of CO poisoning. In this study, we aimed to investigate the optimal cut-off value for creatine kinase level to p...

Background This study aimed to investigate the relationship between body mass index ( BMI ) and sufficient chest compression depth (CCD) in obese patients by a mathematical model. Methods and Results This retrospective analysis was performed with chest computed tomography images conducted between 2006 and 2018. We classified the selected individua...

Background: The 2015 AHA guidelines recommend that amiodarone should be used for patients with refractory ventricular fibrillation (RVF). However, the optimal time interval between the incoming call and amiodarone administration (call-to-amiodarone administration interval) in RVF patients has not been investigated. We hypothesized that the time el...

Background: The recommended chest compression technique for a single rescuer performing infant cardiopulmonary resuscitation is the two-finger technique. For 2 rescuers, a two-thumb-encircling hands technique is recommended. Several recent studies have reported that the two-thumb-encircling hands technique is more effective for high-quality chest...

Study objective: Few studies have investigated the association between carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning and risk of venous thromboembolism. We aim to identify the risk of pulmonary embolism and deep venous thrombosis after CO poisoning. Methods: We conducted a nationwide cohort-crossover study using administrative claims data in Korea. We compared...

Objective This study aimed to determine the effect of repeated antivenom therapy compared with that of single antivenom therapy for treating snakebite-related systemic complications. Methods A retrospective medical record review from January 2008 to September 2016 was performed. Patients with snakebite injury who visited the Emergency Department i...

Background: The purpose of this study was to identify the risk factors and causes of short-term mortality after emergency department (ED) discharge in older patients. Methods: This population-based cohort study used nationwide health insurance claims data in Korea from 2008 to 2014. The causes of death and diagnoses of patients who died within 1...

Introduction: Capnometer can be readily malfunctioned by fluid exposure during treatment of critically ill patients. This study aimed to determine whether placing capnometer distant from the endotracheal tube by connecting direct connect catheter mount (DCCM) is effective in yielding reliable end-tidal carbon dioxide (ETCO2) by reducing capnometer...

Introduction: N95 or higher filtering respirators have been recommended in healthcare settings, although there is still a risk of infection due to the improper selection and wearing of respirators. We aimed to assess the effects of training with N95 or higher filter respirators on the protection performance of respirators among healthcare provider...

Background Epidural analgesia has become a common procedure to provide excellent pain relief with few complications. Pneumorrhachis and pneumocephalus are rare complications of unintentional dural puncture and injection of air into the subarachnoid or subdural space. No cases of cardiac arrest associated with these complications have been reported...

Background: Current guidelines recommended that chest compression depths during car-diopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) should be at least one-fifth of the external chest ante-riorposterior (AP) diameter. The chest AP diameter increases because of dorsal kyphosis, senile emphysema, and poor lung compliance associated with aging. This study aimed to c...

Emergency physicians are at risk of infection during invasive procedures, and wearing a respirator can reduce this risk. The aim of this study was to determine whether the protection afforded by a respirator during intubation is affected by the type of airway device used. In this randomized crossover study, 26 emergency physicians underwent quantit...

The consort checklist of information to include when reporting a randomized trial assessing non-pharmacologic treatments (NPTs). (PDF)

Minimal data set of manuscripts. (DOCX)

The Clinical Research Information Service (cris.nih.go.kr: KCT0001803). (XLSX)

Database about comparing differences according to airway devices. (SAV)

Report about comparing differences according to airway devices. (DOCX)

Report about data were normal distributed or not. (DOCX)