Critical Care General
Aug 28, 2023
To evaluate the population pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of teicoplanin in elderly critically ill patients with pneumonia for optimal dosages.Fifteen critically ill patients (9 men) ≥ 60 ...
Aug 28, 2023
The clinical indications of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) in immunosuppressed patients are not clear. This study aimed to analyse the effectiveness of ECMO and to identify the risk factor...
Aug 28, 2023
Sepsis, a complication of dysregulated host immune systemic response to an infection, is life threatening and causes multiple organ injuries. Sepsis is recognized by WHO as a big contributor to global...
Aug 28, 2023
Endourological procedures are the mainstay of treatment for stone disease in the upper urinary system. Infection is a common complication, and urine cultures (UC) are often obtained preoperatively. In...
Aug 28, 2023
Cerebrovascular reactivity has been identified as a key contributor to secondary injury following traumatic brain injury (TBI). Prevalent intracranial pressure (ICP) based indices of cerebrovascular ...
Aug 28, 2023
Individuals who have experienced mild traumatic brain injuries (mTBIs) suffer from several comorbidities, including chronic pain. Despite extensive studies investigating the underlying mechanisms of m...
Aug 28, 2023
The PARALLEL-HF study assessed the efficacy and safety of sacubitril/valsartan vs. enalapril in Japanese patients with chronic heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF). This open-label ext...
Aug 21, 2023
Norepinephrine is a commonly used drug for treating vasoplegic acute circulatory failure in ICU. The prediction of norepinephrine macro- and micro-circulatory response is complicated by its uneven rec...
Aug 21, 2023
Long-term maintenance steroid therapy (MST) is frequently required for repeated relapses of cryptogenic organizing pneumonia (COP); however, the optimal minimal dose has not been clarified. Therefore,...
Aug 21, 2023
A 60-year-old female was admitted to internal medicine with a painful left knee after a fall and pneumonia. She had undergone a primary cemented left total knee arthroplasty in 2019 and a right c...
Aug 21, 2023
Septic arthritis of the hip is a serious infection in children. However, blood and joint fluid cultures are often negative, which makes the diagnosis and treatment challenging. We analyzed the clinica...
Aug 21, 2023
The human dura mater is known to impact vastly traumatic brain injury mechanopathology. In spite of this involvement, dura mater is typically neglected in computational and physical human head models....
Aug 21, 2023
The Glasgow outcome scale-extended (GOS-E), an ordinal scale measure, is often selected as the endpoint for clinical trials of traumatic brain injury (TBI). Traditionally, GOS-E is analyzed as a fixed...
Aug 14, 2023
To investigate the impact of human serum albumin (HSA) levels on symptomatic cerebral vasospasm (SCVS) in patients with aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (aSAH).We retrospectively reviewed the medica...
Aug 14, 2023
Hand replantation (HR) surgery is a delicate and complex procedure that requires a multidisciplinary team (MT) and specialized equipment, as well as factors such as ischemia time and injury mechanism ...
Aug 14, 2023
Traumatic axonal injury (TAI) is one of the most common pathological features of severe traumatic brain injury (TBI). Our previous study using proteomics suggested that peripherin (PRPH) should be a p...
Aug 14, 2023
The incidence of delayed defaecation is high in enterally fed ventilated patients in intensive care units (ICUs). Those with brain injury may be harmed by increased intracranial pressure if delayed de...
Aug 14, 2023
Patients undergoing cardiac surgery are prone to numerous complications. Increased vascular permeability may be associated with morbidity and mortality due to hemodynamic instability, fluid overload, ...
Aug 07, 2023
Preterm prelabor rupture of membranes (PPROM) is a frequent obstetrical condition with risks of maternal and neonatal morbidity and mortality. Home hospitalization (HH) management is an alternative to...
Aug 07, 2023
This case study presents a mother who continued tandem breastfeeding throughout the acute admission of her critically ill newborn. Her younger child, the subject of this case report was admitted to ou...