Critical Care General
Aug 02, 2021
To evaluate the use of a veterinary point-of-care urine culture system (POCUCS) for the diagnosis of septic peritonitis.Prospective feasibility study performed between August 2017 and April 2018.Priva...
Aug 02, 2021
Neutrophils, the most abundant leukocytes in human peripheral blood, are important effector cells that mediate the inflammatory response. During neutrophil dysfunction, excessive activation and uncont...
Aug 02, 2021
Cetacean morbillivirus (CeMV) was identified as the etiologic agent of several epizootic episodes worldwide. Most of these studies are based on unusual mortality events or identification of new viral ...
Aug 02, 2021
Pregnant women with influenza-A have an increased risk of developing acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) can be used as salvage therapy, with lung tr...
Aug 02, 2021
In hospitalized patients, the duration of antibiotic therapy for uncomplicated pneumonia is often longer than recommended in clinical guidelines. Consequences include increased risk of Clostridioides ...
Aug 02, 2021
. Intraoperative hypotension is associated with organ hypoperfusion, which is deleterious to vital organs. Little is known about the prevalence and consequences of intraoperative hypotension in subjec...
Aug 02, 2021
Smoking cessation after a first cardiovascular event reduces the risk of recurrent vascular events and mortality. This systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to summarize data on the rates, predict...
Aug 02, 2021
Day-to-day change in ambient temperature is associated with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) attacks, but evidence is scarce about the effects of extreme temperatures on the risk of AMI within hours ...
Aug 02, 2021
This study sought to evaluate the effectiveness of locally developed external fixators (LDEF) as definitive treatment for open tibia diaphyseal fractures (OTDF) in Ivory Coast.Gustilo I, II, and IIIA ...
Aug 02, 2021
We aimed to evaluate the elevation of amylase and lipase enzymes in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients and their relationship with the severity of COVID-19.In this study, 1378 patients with ...
Aug 02, 2021
Presepsin is a diagnostic and prognostic biomarker of both bacterial infection and sepsis; however, elevated presepsin levels have also been observed without sepsis. We conducted several analyses to e...
Aug 02, 2021
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a leading cause of impairments affecting Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQoL). We aimed to identify predictors of and develop prognostic models for HRQoL following TB...
Aug 02, 2021
After traumatic brain injury (TBI), fever is frequent. Brain temperature (BT), which is directly linked to body temperature, may influence brain physiology. Increased body and/or BT may cause secondar...
Aug 02, 2021
It is generally believed that hypercapnia and hypocapnia will cause secondary injury to patients with craniocerebral diseases, but a small number of studies have shown that they may have potential ben...
Aug 02, 2021
In patients with diabetes, myocardial fibrosis may contribute to the pathogenesis of heart failure and arrhythmogenesis, increasing ventricular stiffness and delaying conduction. Diabetic myocardial f...
Aug 02, 2021
. Left ventricular ejection fraction is the most commonly used measure describing pumping efficiency, but it is heavily dependent on loading conditions and therefore not well suited to study pathophys...
Aug 02, 2021
Many patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) required critical care. Mid-term outcomes of the survivors need to be assessed. The objective of this single-center cohort study was to describe ...
Aug 02, 2021
At the critical care level, the flu surveillance system is limited in France, with heterogeneous regional modalities of implementation.We aimed at assessing the relevance of the Assistance Publique-HĂ...
Aug 02, 2021
Whether Intensive Care Unit (ICU) clinicians display unconscious bias towards cancer patients is unknown. The aim of this study was to compare the outcomes of critically ill patients with and without ...
Jul 29, 2021
Acute kidney injury (AKI) induces distant organ injury, which is a serious concern in patients with AKI. Recent studies have demonstrated that distant organ injury is associated with oxidative stress ...