Critical Care General
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...
Apr 10, 2023
Acute distress respiratory syndrome (ARDS) patients with veno-venous extra corporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) support are particularly exposed to ECMO-associated infection (ECMO-AI). Unfortunately,...
Apr 06, 2023
The following is a summary of the “A Recirculation System to Reduce the Consumption of Oxygen During CPAP,” published in the February 2023 issue of Respiratory Care by Coppadoro, et al. A h...
Apr 05, 2023
The following is the summary of “Central role of the gut in intensive care” published in the December 2022 issue of Critical care by Corriero, et al. Patients who are critically ill are mor...
Apr 04, 2023
The following is the summary of “Predicting neurological outcome in adult patients with cardiac arrest: systematic review and meta-analysis of prediction model performance” published in the Decemb...
Apr 03, 2023
The following is the summary of “Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on antifungal consumption: a multicenter retrospective analysis” published in the December 2022 issue of Critical care by Bienvenu, et ...
Apr 03, 2023
A 77-year-old female presented with loss of consciousness, blood pressure of 90/60 mmHg, and heart rate of 47 bpm. At admission, highly sensitive Trop-T and lactate were elevated, and an electrocardio...
Apr 03, 2023
While ileal pouch anal anastomosis (IPAA) is the recommended way to restore intestinal continuity after total proctocolectomy, straight ileoanal anastomoses (SIAA) are still selectively performed, esp...
Apr 03, 2023
Chronic pleural cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) effusion is a rare complication after ventriculoperitoneal (VP) shunt insertion and only 18 cases in children and adults have been described so far without ca...