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Association between plasma glycocalyx component levels and poor prognosis in severe influenza type A (H1N1)

Scientific Reports, 2022
Influenza A virus infection causes a series of diseases, but the factors associated with disease severity are not fully understood. Disruption of the endothelial glycocalyx contributes to acute lung injury in sepsis, but has not been well studied in H1N1
Xiao Huang, Feng Lu, Huanhuan Tian, Haoran Hu, Fangyu Ning, Quanmei Shang, Dong Hao, Weiwei Zhu, Guiqing Kong, Xiaohong Ma, Jiali Feng, Tao Wang, Xiaozhi Wang   +12 more
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Cerebral venous thrombosis in a patient with Down syndrome and coronavirus disease 2019: a case report

Journal of Medical Case Reports, 2021
Background The new coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic has spread throughout most of the world. Cerebral venous thrombosis is a rare thromboembolic disease that can present as an extrapulmonary complication in coronavirus disease 2019 infection.
Henry Robayo-Amortegui, Natalia Valenzuela-Faccini, Cesar Quecano-Rosas, Darlyng Zabala-Muñoz, Michel Perez-Garzon   +4 more
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Hypertonic lactate for the treatment of intracranial hypertension in patients with acute brain injury

Scientific Reports, 2022
Hypertonic lactate (HL) is emerging as alternative treatment of intracranial hypertension following acute brain injury (ABI), but comparative studies are limited.
Adriano Bernini, John-Paul Miroz, Samia Abed-Maillard, Eva Favre, Carolina Iaquaniello, Nawfel Ben-Hamouda, Mauro Oddo   +6 more
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Real-time ultrasound-guided thoracentesis in the intensive care unit: prevalence of mechanical complications

The Ultrasound Journal, 2020
Background The use of thoracic ultrasound during thoracentesis reduces complications. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of complications for real-time ultrasound-guided thoracentesis performed by intensivists. As a secondary objective,
David Rene Rodriguez Lima, Andrés Felipe Yepes, Claudia Inés Birchenall Jiménez, Mario Andrés Mercado Díaz, Darío Isaías Pinilla Rojas   +4 more
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Diagnostic Modalities in Critical Care: Point-of-Care Approach

Diagnostics, 2021
The concept of intensive care units (ICU) has existed for almost 70 years, with outstanding development progress in the last decades. Multidisciplinary care of critically ill patients has become an integral part of every modern health care system ...
Sasa Rajsic, Robert Breitkopf, Mirjam Bachler, Benedikt Treml   +3 more
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Implementing an intensive care registry in India: preliminary results of the case-mix program and an opportunity for quality improvement and research [version 2; peer review: 2 approved]

Wellcome Open Research, 2020
Background: The epidemiology of critical illness in India is distinct from high-income countries. However, limited data exist on resource availability, staffing patterns, case-mix and outcomes from critical illness.
Neill K. J. Adhikari, Rajeshwari Arali, Udara Attanayake, Sampath Balasundaram, Abi Beane, Vijay Chakravarthy, Niyaz Channanath Ashraf, Sri Darshana, Dedeepiya Devaprasad, Arjen M. Dondorp, Robert Fowler, Rashan Haniffa, Pramodya Ishani, Augustian James, Issrah Jawad, Devachandran Jayakumar, Chamira Kodipilly, Rakesh Laxmappa, Kishore Mangal, Ashwin Mani, Meghena Mathew, Sristi Patodia, Rajyabardhan Pattnaik, Dilanthi Priyadarshini, Mathew Pulicken, Ebenezer Rabindrarajan, Pratheema Ramachandran, Kavita Ramesh, Usha Rani, Suchitra Ranjit, Ananth Ramaiyan, Nagarajan Ramakrishnan, Lakshmi Ranganathan, Thalha Rashan, Raymond Dominic Savio, Jaganathan Selva, Bharath Kumar Tirupakuzhi Vijayaraghavan, Swagata Tripathy, Timo Tolppa, Ishara Udayanga, Ramesh Venkataraman, Deepak Vijayan   +41 more
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A scoping review of registry captured indicators for evaluating quality of critical care in ICU

Journal of Intensive Care, 2021
Background Excess morbidity and mortality following critical illness is increasingly attributed to potentially avoidable complications occurring as a result of complex ICU management (Berenholtz et al., J Crit Care 17:1-2, 2002; De Vos et al., J Crit ...
Issrah Jawad, Sumayyah Rashan, Chathurani Sigera, Jorge Salluh, Arjen M. Dondorp, Rashan Haniffa, Abi Beane   +6 more
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Impact of abdominal aortic calcification on 90‐day mortality in sepsis patients: a pilot retrospective cohort study

Acute Medicine & Surgery, 2021
Aim We aimed to investigate the association between aortic calcification and 90‐day mortality in sepsis patients admitted to the intensive care unit. Methods We evaluated adult patients (≥18 years) diagnosed with sepsis based on the Sepsis‐3 criteria and
Takayuki Kato, Kazunori Fujino, Yasuyuki Tsujita, Hidemitsu Miyatake, Takahisa Tabata, Yutaka Eguchi   +5 more
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Echocardiographic measure of dynamic arterial elastance predict pressure response during norepinephrine weaning: an observational study

Scientific Reports, 2021
The purpose of this study was to determine whether dynamic elastance EAdyn derived from echocardiographic measurements of stroke volume variations can predict the success of a one-step decrease of norepinephrine dose.
Maxime Nguyen, Osama Abou-Arab, Stéphane Bar, Hervé Dupont, Bélaïd Bouhemad, Pierre-Grégoire Guinot   +5 more
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Exercise rehabilitation for recovery from critical illness (Protocol) [PDF]

, 2010
Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, UK. As part of an ongoing research education programme.This is the protocol for a review and there is no abstract.
Geneen, L, Mercer, T, Salisbury, Lisa, Thomson, C, Walsh, Timothy   +4 more
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