Mar 18, 2021

United States Air Force Academy (USAFA) cadets are at risk for sustaining concussions; however, several factors inhibit disclosure. We aimed to better understand the role of social support in concussi...

Mar 18, 2021

Acute radiation syndrome (ARS) is the radiation toxicity that can affect the hematopoietic, gastrointestinal, and nervous systems upon accidental radiation exposure within a short time. Currently, the...

Mar 18, 2021

Arteries play a critical role in carrying essential nutrients and oxygen throughout the brain; however, vessels can become damaged in traumatic brain injury (TBI), putting neural tissue at risk. Even ...

Mar 18, 2021

Cardiac implantable electronic devices (CIEDs) offer heart failure (HF) diagnostic information, including intrathoracic impedance (ITI) or physical activity (PA). However, few studies have evaluated t...

Mar 18, 2021

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic placed considerable strain on critical care resources. How United States (U.S.) hospitals responded to this crisis is unknown.What actions did U.S. hos...

Mar 18, 2021

Vitamin C is a well-known antioxidant and essential cofactor for numerous biological reactions. Several studies reported that vitamin C can improve the symptoms and prognosis of patients with sepsis a...

Mar 16, 2021

Findings from numerous studies indicate that patients with burns who develop acute kidney injury (AKI) in the ICU have an increased mortality rate when compared with those who do not develop AKI, expl...

Mar 15, 2021

The developmental origins of ischemic heart disease (IHD) have been widely documented but little is known about their persistence across more than one generation. This study aimed to investigate wheth...

Mar 15, 2021

Recent evidence indicates that treatment with sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors (SGLT2i) may favorably affect the risk of stroke in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and chronic ki...

Mar 15, 2021

Obesity is a risk factor for ischaemic stroke but provides a survival advantage. The relationship between body mass index (BMI) and long-term function is less clear. The presence of an obesity paradox...

Mar 15, 2021

Both the Nuclear factor-erythroid 2 p45-related factor 2 (Nrf2)/heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1) antioxidant pathway and Nucleotide-binding oligomerization domain (NOD)-like receptor protein 3 (NLRP3) pathway ...

Mar 15, 2021

Evaluate the impact of an emergency critical care center (EC3) on the admissions of critically ill patients to a critical care medicine unit (CCMU) and their outcomes.This was a retrospective before/a...

Mar 15, 2021

With the continued transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) throughout the world, identification of highly suspected COVID-19 patients remains an urgent priority. I...

Mar 15, 2021

To assess the effect of different frequencies of ventilator circuit changes in neonates and children through a systematic review and meta-analysis.(1) "No routine change of ventilator circuit (unless ...

Mar 15, 2021

Lung ultrasound (LUS) and lung ultrasound score (LUSS) have been successfully used to diagnose neonatal pneumonia, assess the lesion distribution, and quantify the aeration loss. The present study des...

Mar 15, 2021

The Klebsiella pneumoniae (K. pneumoniae) bacterium is responsible for many opportunistic infections such as sepsis, and a multidrug-resistant (MDR) clone sequence type (ST) 307 has recently begun to ...

Mar 15, 2021

A strain of Alcaligenes faecalis A12C (A. faecalis A12C) isolated from Argyrosomus regius is a probiotic in fish. Previous experiments showed that A. faecalis A12C had inhibitory effects on the growth...

Mar 15, 2021

To compare clinical characteristics and outcomes of infants born to COVID-19 to non COVID-19 mothers at delivery in a community hospital in Queens, New York.Case-control study conducted March 15 to Ju...

Mar 15, 2021

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) leads to high mortality rate. We aimed to identify the key cytokines favoring TBI repair and found that patients with TBI with a better outcome robustly increased concentr...

Mar 15, 2021

Proton therapy allows to avoid excess radiation dose on normal tissues. However, there are some limitations. Indeed, passive delivery of proton beams results in an increase in the lateral dose upstrea...