Critical Care General
Dec 19, 2022
The following is a summary of "Different epidemiology of bloodstream infections in COVID-19 compared to non-COVID-19 critically ill patients: a descriptive analysis of the Eurobact II study" published...
Dec 19, 2022
The following is a summary of "Circulating N-formylmethionine and metabolic shift in critical illness: a multicohort metabolomics study," published in the October 2022 issue of Critical Care by Sigurd...
Dec 19, 2022
To survive and establish a niche for themselves, bacteria constantly evolve. Toward that, they not only insert point mutations and promote illegitimate recombinations within their genomes but also ins...
Dec 19, 2022
Mothers giving birth by non-elective cesarean section have considerably higher risk of developing postoperative infection, than mothers giving birth by elective cesarean section. Meta-analyses have sh...
Dec 19, 2022
Cognitive Symptom Management and Rehabilitation Training (CogSMART) and Compensatory Cognitive Training (CCT) are evidence-based compensatory cognitive training interventions that improve cognition in...
Dec 19, 2022
Currently there are no widely applied methods which could identify, at the time of head trauma, those mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) patients who later develop pituitary dysfunction. The effect of...
Dec 15, 2022
The following is a summary of "Oxygen targets and 6-month outcome after out of hospital cardiac arrest: a pre-planned sub-analysis of the targeted hypothermia versus targeted normothermia after Out-of...
Dec 15, 2022
The following is a summary of "Comparison of continuous versus intermittent enteral feeding in critically ill patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis," published in the October 2022 issue of C...
Dec 13, 2022
The following is a summary of "Virtual and augmented reality in critical care medicine: the patient’s, clinician’s, and researcher’s perspective" published in the October 2022 issue of Critical ...
Dec 13, 2022
The following is a summary of "Extracorporeal versus conventional cardiopulmonary resuscitation for refractory out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: a secondary analysis of the Prague OHCA trial" published ...
Dec 13, 2022
The following is a summary of "Proenkephalin A 119–159 predicts early and successful liberation from renal replacement therapy in critically ill patients with acute kidney injury: a post hoc analysi...
Dec 12, 2022
Currently there are no effective therapies to prevent or halt the development of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Multiple risk factors are involved in AD, including ischemic stroke (IS). Aspirin is often pr...
Dec 12, 2022
The synovial fluid (SF) analysis involves a series of chemical and physical studies that allow opportune diagnosing of septic, inflammatory, non-inflammatory, and other pathologies in joints. Among th...
Dec 12, 2022
Disorders of swallowing often lead to pneumonia when material enters the airways (aspiration). Flexible Endoscopic Evaluation of Swallowing (FEES) plays a key role in the diagnostics of aspiration but...
Dec 12, 2022
Plasma neurofilament light chain (NF-L) levels were assessed as a diagnostic biomarker for traumatic brain injury (TBI) and as a prognostic biomarker for somatomotor recovery, cognitive decline, and e...
Dec 12, 2022
This article focuses on treatments and complications in patients presenting dental trauma in primary teeth. Treatment alternatives begin with the decision of performing a procedure under clinical sett...
Dec 12, 2022
This paper describes the baseline characteristics of the Semaglutide Effects on Heart Disease and Stroke in Patients with Overweight or Obesity (SELECT) study, one of the largest cardiovascular (CV) o...
Dec 09, 2022
Surrogate caregivers for bereaved patients in the intensive care unit (ICU) may suffer from prolonged grief disorder (PGD), posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and depression. Given the duration cri...
Dec 09, 2022
To demonstrate the efficacy of the Anapnoguard endotracheal tubes and its control unit, researchers put them to use in proof of concept research, including on 15 patients who had COVID-19 acute respir...
Dec 09, 2022
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is one of the most common comorbidities in acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). Unfortunately, there aren't many specific studies on the best way to...