Apr 15, 2021

To report available information in the literature regarding frequency, indications, types of antibiotic usage, duration, and their efficacy in Covid-19 infected patients.The search was conducted on Ap...

Apr 15, 2021

Bronchoscopy is widely used and regarded as standard of care in most intensive care units (ICUs). Data concerning recommendations for on-call bronchoscopy are lacking.Evaluation of recommendations, co...

Apr 15, 2021

Elevated troponin levels are found in a significant number of patients who are diagnosed with acute embolic stroke (AES) after first diagnosed atrial fibrillation (AF). These myocardial injuries, whic...

Apr 15, 2021

previous studies evaluating external stents for saphenous vein grafts (SVG) in CABG were limited to on-pump isolated CABG and single grafting technique with one external stent per patient. The objecti...

Apr 15, 2021

An acute ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) is a very serious type of heart attack and a profoundly life-threatening medical emergency, and percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is the pref...

Apr 15, 2021

Sepsis is a major public health concern, with high mortality and morbidity, especially among trauma patients. It is characterized by a systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) occurring in respo...

Apr 15, 2021

In some cases, autopsy is the first opportunity to find a previously unrecognized critical infection. Pathogens are identified by various methods, such as microscopic examination, special stains, cult...

Apr 15, 2021

Macrophages undergo profound metabolic reprogramming to join key immunoregulatory functions, which can be initiated by pattern recognition receptors. TREM2, a macrophage phagocytic receptor, plays piv...

Apr 15, 2021

Current evidence regarding the protective effect of mouthguard use on symptom severity in children and adolescents who sustain sport-related concussions is insufficient to make clinical recommendation...

Apr 15, 2021

We sought to determine the secondary overtriage rate of pediatric trauma patients admitted to pediatric trauma centers. We hypothesized that pediatric secondary overtriage (POT) would constitute a lar...

Apr 15, 2021

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) increases the risk for concussion or mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI). At the same time, recommendations for the management of ADHD include participat...

Apr 15, 2021

Ultrasound insonation of lungs that are dense with extravascular lung water (EVLW) produces characteristic reverberation artifacts termed B-lines. The number of B-lines present demonstrates reasonable...

Apr 15, 2021

Depression after myocardial infarction (MI) and chronic heart failure (CHF) is a common condition that is resistant to anti-depressive drugs. Ghrelin (a peptide hormone) shows dual protective effects ...

Apr 15, 2021

Hydroxychloroquine use in COVID-19 patients was widespread and uncontrolled until recently. Patients vulnerable to severe COVID-19 are at risk for hydroxychloroquine interactions with comorbidities an...

Apr 12, 2021

This is one of a collection of stories that are like “Final Destination” meets “The Monkey’s Paw” (W. W. Jacobs, 1902). As such, they are tragedies more than either mysteries or horror, an...

Apr 12, 2021

Acute mesenteric ischemia is a challenging acute condition which is often caused by occlusion of an intestinal vessel. Therapeutic algorithms include revascularization of the occluded vessel and a sur...

Apr 12, 2021

To assess the efficacy of therapeutic plasma exchange (TPE) following life-threatening COVID-19.Open-label, randomized clinical trial of intensive care unit (ICU) patients with life-threatening COVID-...

Apr 12, 2021

Sepsis survivors show long-term impairments, including alterations in memory and executive function. Evidence suggests that systemic inflammation contributes to the progression of Alzheimeŕs disease ...

Apr 12, 2021

We evaluate ceftazidime/avibactam (C/A) and ceftolozane/tazobactam (C/T) use in hematological patients with febrile neutropenia (FN) receiving high-dose chemotherapy and HSCT.Between January-December ...

Apr 12, 2021

Diesel exhaust particles (DEP) are the major components of atmospheric particulate matter (PM) and chronic exposure is recognized to enhance respiratory system complications. Although the spread of SA...