Critical Care General
Sep 24, 2020
Research shows that gender influences men's health-related beliefs and behaviours - including those within the context of traumatic brain injury (TBI) - making it a factor that should be considered wh...
Sep 24, 2020
A thorough understanding of the epidemiology, patient characteristics, trauma mechanisms, and current outcomes among patients with severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) is important as it may inform pot...
Sep 24, 2020
Concussed patients have impaired reaction time (RT) and cognition following injury that may linger and impair driving performance. Limited research has used direct methods to assess driving-RT post-co...
Sep 24, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has substantially impacted the conduct of clinical trials. While initially preparing for a period of time, where it would likely be impossible to supervise trials in the usual wa...
Sep 24, 2020
Peritoneal dialysis (PD) is increasingly used for the long-term management of hypervolemic refractory congestive heart failure (CHF) patients, in particular when complicated by renal insufficiency. Wh...
Sep 24, 2020
The prevalence of burnout and depressive symptoms is high among physician trainees.What is the burden of burnout and depressive symptoms among fellows training in pulmonary and critical care medicine ...
Sep 24, 2020
Transient ischemic attack (TIA) can occur without self-awareness of symptoms. We aimed to investigate characteristics of patients with tissue-based diagnosis of TIA but having no self-awareness of the...
Sep 24, 2020
According to current guidelines, aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage (aSAH) patients are mostly managed in intensive care units (ICU) regardless of baseline severity. We assessed the prognostic and ec...
Sep 24, 2020
Myocardial infarction (MI) leading to heart failure (HF) is a major cause of death worldwide. Previous studies revealed that the circadian system markedly impacts cardiac repair post-MI, and that ligh...
Sep 21, 2020
Epiploic appendagitis is a torsion of fatty appendages of ligamentum trees (1), it's a rare cause of abdominal pain that usually manifests by right or left iliac fossa pain, reminding of appendicitis,...
Sep 21, 2020
Ischemic stroke is associated with a surge in reactive oxygen species generation during reperfusion. The narrow therapeutic window for the delivery of intravenous thrombolysis and endovascular thrombe...
Sep 21, 2020
Sepsis is characterized by dynamic changes of the immune system resulting in deregulated inflammation and failure of homoeostasis and can escalate to septic shock. Circulating monocytes and other inna...
Sep 21, 2020
complications after laparoscopic common bile duct exploration (LCBDE) regarding choledochotomy techniques have not been adequately studied in the literature. Therefore, this study aimed to retrospecti...
Sep 21, 2020
Septic shock is associated with altered peripheral perfusion. Core-to-skin temperature gradient depends on skin perfusion and microcirculatory function. We hypothesized that a high core-to-skin temper...
Sep 21, 2020
Re-biopsy in progressive advanced Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC) after first line treatment may reveal information about evolving tumor biology during treatment. Our study aims to investigate the ...
Sep 21, 2020
Investigate the incidence and imaging characteristics of radiologically-evident immune-related adverse events (irAEs) on body CT in patients with small-cell lung cancer (SCLC) treated with immune-chec...
Sep 21, 2020
An association between spontaneous hyperventilation, delayed cerebral ischemia, and poor clinical outcomes has been reported in subarachnoid hemorrhage. We evaluated the relationship between early pCO...
Sep 21, 2020
Standards for reporting and analyzing adherence to medical therapy have recently improved due to international consensus efforts. If applied to clinical trial research in patients with stroke, these i...
Sep 21, 2020
The ARISTOTLE (Apixaban for Reduction in Stroke and Other Thromboembolic Events in Atrial Fibrillation) trial randomised patients with atrial fibrillation at risk of stroke to apixaban or warfarin. We...
Sep 21, 2020
The outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), an infectious disease with severe acute respiratory syndrome, has now become a worldwide pandemic. Despite the respiratory complication, COVID-19 i...