Jul 09, 2020

Mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) is an important risk factor for cognitive impairment. Despite intense efforts to develop efficient treatments, the current therapies are not often effective and far ...

Jul 09, 2020

No large prospective data are available on ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) in patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI).To evaluate the incidence, timing and risk factors of VAP after TBI and i...

Jul 09, 2020

The aging of the population leads us to treat older patients, in particular presenting with acute limb ischemia (ALI). However there has been little evaluation of this pathology in the nonagenarians. ...

Jul 09, 2020

Chronic heart failure (CHF) is characterized by higher rates of atrial fibrillation (AF) and endothelial dysfunction (ED). First line anticoagulant therapy in AF is represented by direct oral anticoag...

Jul 09, 2020

Faculty supervision of invasive bedside procedures (IBPs) in the ICU may enhance procedural education and ensure patient safety. However, there is limited research on teaching effectiveness in the ICU...

Jul 09, 2020

The COVID-19 outbreak is currently the major public health concern worldwide. This infection, caused by the novel coronavirus Sars Cov2, primarily affects respiratory system, but there is increasing e...

Jul 09, 2020

Male sex has been associated with severe Coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) infection. We examined the association between male sex and severe Covid-19 infection and if an increased risk remains afte...

Jul 09, 2020

Globally, pneumonia is the leading cause of death among children. Few data exist regarding the effect of Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) vaccine and 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV-1...

Jul 07, 2020

Data indicate that acute kidney injury (AKI) affects one-third of children admitted to a pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) and is related to the development of several complications and poor outcom...

Jul 06, 2020

Data showing an increase in prevalence of MRSA and other multi-drug resistant organism (MDRO) infections in ICU patients suggests that antimicrobial resistance continues to increase in this population...

Jul 06, 2020

Numerous studies have been conducted to project temperature-related mortality under climate change scenarios. However, most of the previous evidence has been limited to the total or non-accidental mor...

Jul 06, 2020

MiR-483-3p is involved in the pathogenesis of acute myocardial infarctions, but its association with myocardial ischemia reperfusion (IR) remains mostly unknown. In this study, an in vitro model of my...

Jul 06, 2020

In recent years, extended endoscopic endonasal approach (EEEA) has been used as an alternative to transcranial approaches in the treatment of anterior midline skull base lesions. We retrospectively re...

Jul 06, 2020

The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has been identified as responsible for the COVID-19 outbreak worldwide. Data on treatment are scare and parallels are made between SARS...

Jul 06, 2020

As of April 17th, 2020, more than 2,190,010 COVID-19 cases with 147,010 deaths have been recorded worldwide. It has been suggested that a high mortality rate occurs in patients with severe disease and...

Jul 06, 2020

 According to the most recent metanalysis, the best way to establish safe enteral feeding in preterm babies using nasogastric or orogastric tubes is still not well understood. This study aimed to de...

Jul 06, 2020

High blood pressure variability (BPV) is a novel risk factor for cardiovascular disease. However, the heterogeneity of systolic blood pressure variability (SBPV) and diastolic blood pressure variabili...

Jul 06, 2020

Recently, the definition of sepsis has changed from a physiologic derangement (Sepsis-1 and -2) to organ dysfunction (Sepsis-3) based. We sought to determine the concordance between the different seps...

Jul 06, 2020

species have been recognized to cause infections in immunocompromised individuals. The purpose of this study was to systemically review all published cases of infections in humans and describe the e...

Jul 06, 2020

We investigated the potential link between trauma center American College of Surgeons verification level and institutional volume of penetrating thoracic trauma with outcomes for patients with penetra...