Apr 24, 2023

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a global health priority, associated with substantial burden. Historically conceptualised as an injury event with finite recovery, TBI is now recognised as a chronic co...

Apr 21, 2023

The following is a summary of “ Effect of Adding Non-invasive Ventilation to High-Intensity Exercise on Peripheral and Respiratory Muscle Oxygenation," published in the March 2023 issue of Respirato...

Apr 20, 2023

The following is a summary of “Utilization of a Risk Stratification Tool and Volume-Based Cuff Leak Test to Assess Postextubation Stridor," published in the March 2023 issue of Respiratory Care by ...

Apr 19, 2023

The following is a summary of "Usefulness of Inhaled Sedation in Patients With Severe ARDS Due to COVID-19," published in the March 2023 issue of Respiratory Care by Duque et al.  The administ...

Apr 18, 2023

The following is a summary of the “Optimal Tracheostomy Timing Through Modeling Based on Severity of Vocal Cord Injury,” published in the February 2023 issue of Respiratory Care by Malkoc, et al. ...

Apr 17, 2023

Neonatal hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) that results from perinatal cerebral hypoxia-ischemia has become one of the leading causes of acute mortality and chronic disability in infants and child...

Apr 17, 2023

Streptococcus equi subsp. zooepidemicus is an opportunistic pathogen associated with disease in a range of domestic and wild animals. Despite its importance, very limited data is available on its surv...

Apr 17, 2023

Screening of acute respiratory infections causes serious challenges in urgent point-of-care scenarios where conventional methods are impractical and alternative techniques suffer from low accuracy, po...

Apr 17, 2023

Sepsis is as a life-threatening organ dysfunction caused by a dysregulated host response to an infection. The mortality of sepsis and particular of septic shock is very high. Treatment mostly focuses ...

Apr 17, 2023

Sepsis is a life-threatening organ dysfunction caused by dysregulated host responses to infection, for which effective therapeutic strategies are still absent. Shengjiang San (SJS), a well-known Tradi...

Apr 17, 2023

Structural and functional deficits in the hippocampus are a prominent feature of moderate-severe traumatic brain injury (TBI). In this work, we investigated the potential of Quantitative Susceptibilit...

Apr 17, 2023

Prognostic prediction of traumatic brain injury (TBI) in patients is crucial in clinical decision and health care policy making. This study aimed to develop and validate prediction models for in-hospi...

Apr 11, 2023

The following is a summary of the "Direct Extubation to High-Flow Nasal Cannula versus Noninvasive Ventilation in Obese Subjects," published in the February 2023 issue of Respiratory Care by Magdy, et...

Apr 10, 2023

Whereas truncating variants of the giant protein Titin (TTNtv) are the main cause of familial dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM), recently Filamin C truncating variants (FLNCtv) were identified as a cause o...

Apr 10, 2023

The definition of partial resuscitative endovascular balloon occlusion of the aorta (pREBOA) is not yet determined and clinical markers of the degree of occlusion, metabolic effects and end-organ inju...

Apr 10, 2023

Infective endocarditis can progress to an intracardiac abscess in 20% to 30% of cases, with interventricular septal abscess (IVSA) being one of the rare complications usually presenting with sepsis. W...

Apr 10, 2023

Mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) have emerged as the signature injuries of the U.S. veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, and frequently co-occur in ...

Apr 10, 2023

Increased intracranial pressure (ICP) has been associated with poor neurological outcomes and increased mortality in patients with severe traumatic brain injury (TBI). Traditionally, ICP-lowering ther...

Apr 10, 2023

To observe the clinical effect of Qiliqiangxin capsule combined with recombinant human brain natriuretic peptide in acute left heart failure patients 7 days after onset as well as the effects of plas...

Apr 10, 2023

The muscular dystrophies caused by dystrophin deficiency, the so-called dystrophinopathies, are associated with impaired cardiac contractility and arrhythmias, which considerably contribute to disease...