Critical Care General
Mar 07, 2022
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) disproportionately affects low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). In these settings, accurate patient prognostication is both difficult and essential for high-quality p...
Mar 07, 2022
Despite multiple trials comparing rate with rhythm control, there is no consensus on optimal management of first-detected atrial fibrillation (AF).We analyzed current patterns of care for first-detect...
Feb 28, 2022
This study aimed to describe the prevalence of hypoxic-ischemic brain injury (HIBI) on head CT (HCT) obtained within two hours of return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC) care in the Emergency Departm...
Feb 28, 2022
Proarrhythmic risk of conventional anti-arrhythmic agents is linked to unintended modulation of membrane voltage dynamics. We have demonstrated that the anti-fibrillatory effect of azumolene is mediat...
Feb 28, 2022
Listeria monocytogenes is a psychrotrophic food-borne pathogenic bacterium that causes listeriosis. Due to its unusual adaptation, an ability to grow at extended temperatures ranging from 4 to 45 °C...
Feb 28, 2022
Drug-induced interstitial lung disease (DIILD) is a form of interstitial lung disease resulting from exposure to drugs causing inflammation and possibly interstitial fibrosis. Antineoplastic drugs are...
Feb 28, 2022
Contemporary practices for hemodynamically supported high-risk percutaneous coronary intervention (HRPCI) have evolved over the last decade. This study sought to compare outcomes of the prospective, m...
Feb 28, 2022
Surgery is performed in 50-70% of Crohn's disease (CD) patients, and its main risk is surgical site infection (SSI). The microbiota has been extensively assessed in CD but not as a potential risk fact...
Feb 28, 2022
Psychological comorbidity, the co-occurrence of mental health disorders, is more often the rule than the exception among individuals with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Research shows that prev...
Feb 28, 2022
Damage control strategies in resuscitation and (fracture) surgery have become standard of care in the treatment of severely injured patients. It is suggested that damage control improves survival and ...
Feb 28, 2022
Overt left ventricular (LV) dysfunction and congestive heart failure are known entities in Takayasu arteritis (TA). Subclinical LV dysfunction may develop in these patients despite normal LV ejection ...
Feb 28, 2022
Autologous cardiac cell therapy is a promising treatment for combating the right ventricular heart failure (RVHF) that can occur in patients with congenital heart disease (CHD). However, autologous ce...
Feb 28, 2022
Asthma exacerbations can be life-threatening, with 25,000 to 50,000 cases a year requiring admission to intensive care in the United States. Appropriate triage of life-threatening asthma is dependent ...
Feb 21, 2022
Recent studies showed that intraoperative indocyanine green (ICG) fluorescence imaging-guided surgery helped evaluate organ perfusion. Whereas whether the gastric remnant can be preserved after distal...
Feb 21, 2022
In recent years, dioxanes and dioxolanes have been intermittently detected in water environment and have caused several offensive drinking water odor incidents worldwide. In this study, the co-occurre...
Feb 21, 2022
The purpose of this study was to analyze the prevalence and significance of incidental findings on computed tomography pulmonary angiography (CTPA) studies and to assess the diagnostic yield of CTPA i...
Feb 21, 2022
To determine if the choice of methodological elements affects the results in continuity of care studies.This is a retrospective cohort study. The association between continuity of care and clinical ou...
Feb 21, 2022
D-Dimer was recently identified as an additional biomarker in the diagnosis of hip and knee periprosthetic joint infection (PJI). Currently, there is only one study in literature dealing with the role...
Feb 21, 2022
Susceptibility-weighted imaging (SWI) is crucial for the characterization of intracranial hemorrhage and mineralization, but has the drawback of long acquisition times. We aimed to propose a deep lear...
Feb 21, 2022
In this work, we describe the technical aspects of the XXX VMAT TBI technique, compare it to other VMAT TBI techniques, and share our initial experience.From September 2019 to August 2021, 35 patients...