Effect of lunar cycle on temporal variation in cardiopulmonary arrest in seven emergency departments during 11 years

Alves, Donald W.; Cochrane, Dennis G.; Cable, Greg

doi:10.1097/00063110-200309000-00013

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“…This study showed that more ACS cases occur within the period of new moon. Even more, the occurrences of cardiopulmonary resuscitations did not revealed relationship with the lunar activity [19]. This suggests that different medical conditions have different sensitivity to lunar activity and possibly other environment conditions.…”

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confidence: 88%

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The local earth magnetic field changes impact on weekly hospitalization due to unstable angina pectoris

Žiubrytė¹,

Jaruševičius²,

Landauskas³

et al. 2018

J., complex., health sci.

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Abstract.Objectives: Acute coronary syndrome as an acute oxygenated blood deprivation to the heart muscle due to atherosclerotic plaque rupture in the coronary artery followed by thrombosis is possibly associated with changes in the Earth's local time varying magnetic field as they strongly influence hormonal and other regulatory systems' activity. This study analyses the correlation between prevalence of the acute coronary syndrome and the changes in the local time varying aspects of the magnetic field. Methods: Seven-hundred patients admitted to Cardiology Department of Hospital of Lithuanian University of Health Sciences Kaunas Clinics within 2016 due to acute coronary syndrome were retrospectively included into the study. The number of cases per week was compared with the weekly changes of the local Earth magnetic field. The one-year period was divided into two periods: the first-half of the year (weeks 1 to 26) and the second-half of the year (weeks 27 to 52) and more detailed analyses were performed accordingly to the significance of the left main artery lesion. Mean power of local magnetic field fluctuations in Lithuania, measured in pT2 in five different frequency ranges where overlaps between the Schumann resonance and EEG frequency ranges (named as SDelta (0-3.5 Hz), STheta (3.5-7 Hz), SAlpha (7-15 Hz), SBeta (15-32 Hz) and SGamma (32-66 Hz) to distinguish them from the EEG bands). Results: Statistically significant weak and moderate correlations between weekly prevalence of acute coronary syndrome admissions and the magnetic field intensities changes were found. Higher intensities in the SBeta and SGamma ranges were associated with a higher number of admissions throughout the year in females and the SGamma range was associated with higher number of admission only during the second-half of the year in males. A higher intensity magnetic field in SDelta, STheta, SAlpha and SBeta ranges was associated with a higher admissions number due to left main artery lesions in males, while a higher intensity in the SGamma range was associated with higher number of admissions due to left main artery lesions in females through the year. Conclusion: Significant correlation between acute coronary syndrome and changes in the local Earth time varying magnetic field intensities was found. Some frequency ranges are associated with an episode of an acute coronary syndrome. Left main artery lesions significantly correlated with magnetic field changes in most of the frequency ranges in males while only one of the frequency ranges in females.

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“…(1)) was used [19]. The drawback of DFT is that one cannot observe the change in spectral density over time unless sequentially computing DFT.…”

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The local earth magnetic field changes impact on weekly hospitalization due to unstable angina pectoris

Žiubrytė¹,

Jaruševičius²,

Landauskas³

et al. 2018

J., complex., health sci.

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“…Also there is a cultural belief in more than ten percent of the Western European population, that the moon affects health care and is assumed to have a negative effect on procedures, as the occurrence of Friday 13 th is supposed to be associated with worsened outcome [3]. Studies have been performed to analyze the effect of the lunar cycle on birth rates [4], emergency department presentations [5], cardiopulmonary resuscitations [6,7] and psychiatric disorders [8]. Surgery specific studies looked into the incidence of postoperative hemorrhage [9,10], intraoperative blood loss [11], morbidity and mortality after lung and breast cancer surgery [12,13] and quality of radical cystectomy for bladder cancer [14] in relation to the lunar cycle.…”

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Influence of Weekday of Surgery on Operative Complications. An Analysis of 25.000 Surgical Procedures

Müller¹,

Strauchmann²,

Katou³

et al. 2017

Clin Res Trial

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Background: Surgical procedures need to be performed safely on every day and night of the week. Operations on certain weekdays have recently been shown to be associated with increased risk. Patient concerns about their safety have to be taken seriously when surgery needs to be planned. Many patients also believe in negative effects of lunar constellations or Friday 13 th . To establish a scientific basis for reassurement, we retrospectively analyzed surgical complications at a maximum care center, addressing these issues.

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“…There have been many published reports of the impact of the Moon's phases on the occurrence of cardiovascular diseases, psychiatric disorders, rheumatologic disorders, birth rates, the risk of sudden cardiac death and the number of emergency department visits or hospital admissions. (1)(2)(3)(4)(5)(6)(7)(8)(9)(10)(11) In the vast majority, a link was not identified. Even the shifts of lunar phases are often considered a marker of oscillation of the gravitational field of the Moon; in fact, there is no direct relationship between these natural phenomena.…”

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Impact of gravitational interaction between the Moon and the Earth on the occurrence of episodes of cardiogenic pulmonary edema in the field

2017

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While circadian variation of occurrence of cardiovascular emergencies has been described, it has not been assessed whether fluctuations of gravitational interaction between the Earth and the Moon may induce other types of its variation in time have the similar impact. Therefore, we decided to evaluate whether there is an association between the occurrence of prehospital cardiogenic pulmonary edema (CPE) episodes treated by Emergency Medical Services (EMS) and fluctuations in the intensity of gravitational interaction between the Earth and the Moon. Methods. We extracted all dispatches to CPE episodes from the EMS database of the Central Bohemian Region, Czech Republic, between 2.11.2008 and 1.7.2014. For each episode, the intensity of gravitational interaction between the Moon and the Earth was calculated. The study period was divided into 11 sections of equal duration according to the different intensity of gravitational interaction, and occurrence of CPE was compared among the groups. Results. We observed up to 4,744 episodes of CPE during the study period. Occurrence of CPE episodes was highest in the periods with the weakest intensity of gravitational interaction (≤1.80e1026 N), while in the periods of the most intense gravitational interaction (≥2.26e1026 N), the lowest proportion of CPE cases was observed (23.44 vs. 3.79 %, p <0.001). Conclusions. We identified a significant association between the intensity of gravitational interaction between the Earth and the Moon and occurrence of CPE, treated by our EMS. The weakest intensity was associated with its increased occurrence and vice versa. Further research is required for potential use of this phenomenon in a chronotherapeutic approach to secondary prevention of CPE.

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Effect of lunar cycle on temporal variation in cardiopulmonary arrest in seven emergency departments during 11 years

Abstract: Contrary to the traditional belief that more cardiopulmonary resuscitations occur during the full moon, we were unable to identify a significant effect during full moon days. However, there were on average 6.5% fewer cardiopulmonary resuscitations during new moon days than other days.

Cited by 35 publications

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The local earth magnetic field changes impact on weekly hospitalization due to unstable angina pectoris

The local earth magnetic field changes impact on weekly hospitalization due to unstable angina pectoris

Influence of Weekday of Surgery on Operative Complications. An Analysis of 25.000 Surgical Procedures

Impact of gravitational interaction between the Moon and the Earth on the occurrence of episodes of cardiogenic pulmonary edema in the field

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