Critical Care General
May 01, 2020
We hypothesized that the change in stroke risk profile between baseline and follow-up may be a better predictor of ischemic stroke than the baseline stroke risk determination using the CHADS-VASc scor...
May 01, 2020
Biomarker-based preventative and monitoring strategies are increasingly used for risk stratification in cardiovascular (CV) disease. The aim of this study was to investigate the utility of longitudina...
May 01, 2020
To determine the prevalence and associated risk factors of sepsis among neonates admitted into neonatal intensive care units (NICU) of public hospitals in Dhaka.This was a cross-sectional study conduc...
May 01, 2020
Two rare cases of Chinese female patients with influenza B virus infection complicated with both fulminant pneumonia and septicemia caused by Panton-Valentine leukocidin(PVL) positive methicillin-sens...
May 01, 2020
Mycotic aneurysms of coronary vein grafts are rare and associated with high mortality. They are most commonly a result of surgical or percutaneous intervention, and present with complications includin...
May 01, 2020
Septic shock (SS) is associated with high morbidity and mortality rate. Early antibiotic therapy administration in septic patients was shown to reduce mortality but its impact on mortality in a preho...
May 01, 2020
Maternal infections are an important cause of maternal mortality and severe maternal morbidity. We report the main findings of the WHO Global Maternal Sepsis Study, which aimed to assess the frequency...
May 01, 2020
School policies and practices designed to educate athletes, parents, and coaches about youth sports concussions may be a way to reduce concussion risk and improve both the recognition and management o...
May 01, 2020
While early efforts in psychiatry were focused on uncovering the neurobiological basis of psychiatric symptoms, they made little progress due to limited ability to observe the living brain. Today, we ...
May 01, 2020
Concussion is a significant public health problem affecting 1.6-2.4 million Americans annually. An alternative to reducing the burden of concussion is to reduce its incidence with improved protective ...
May 01, 2020
Immunization with neural-derived peptides (INDP) has demonstrated to be a promising therapy to achieve a regenerative effect in the chronic phase of the spinal cord injury (SCI). Nevertheless, INDP-in...
May 01, 2020
Posttraumatic hydrocephalus affects 11.9%-36% of patients undergoing decompressive craniectomy (DC) after traumatic brain injury and necessitates a ventriculo-peritoneal shunt placement. As bone and a...
May 01, 2020
Frailty, characterized by loss of homeostatic reserves and increased vulnerability to physiological decompensation, results from an aggregation of insults across multiple organ systems. Frailty can be...
May 01, 2020
Low blood pressure is common in patients with heart failure and reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF). While spontaneous hypotension predicts risk in HFrEF, there is only limited evidence regarding the re...
May 01, 2020
Heart failure (HF) is one of the major cardiovascular causes of death worldwide. In this study, we explored the effects of folic acid (FA) on cardiometabolic, oxidative stress-biomarker changes and th...
May 01, 2020
Investigation of the effect of SGLT2-inhibition by empagliflozin on left ventricular function in a model of diabetic cardiomyopathy.SGLT2 inhibition is a new strategy to treat diabetes. In the EMPAREG...
May 01, 2020
The benefits of MPP delay optimization on hemodynamics and ventricular contraction synchronicity can be quantified with cardiac index (CI) and QRS width. A delay with the maximum CI and minimum QRS wi...
May 01, 2020
Competence in Point-of-Care Ultrasound (PoCUS) is widely recommended by several critical care societies. Despite numerous introductory short-courses, very few doctors attain PoCUS competence, due to t...
May 01, 2020
Successful bipolar radiofrequency catheter ablation (RFCA) of refractory ventricular arrhythmias (VAs) has been reported. However, the efficacy, safety, and long-term outcomes of bipolar RFCA of VAs a...
May 01, 2020
This study aimed to investigate the protective effect of GanodericacidA (GA) on myocardial ischemia-reperfusion (MIR) injury. The myocardial injury model in rats was established by ligating left anter...