Clinical Profile, Need for Dialysis and Mortality of Community Acquired versus Hospital Acquired Acute Kidney Injury [PDF]
Introduction: Occurrence of Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) is high in hospitalised and critically ill patients. Most of the cases reported by the developed countries are Hospital Acquired Acute Kidney Injury (HA-AKI).
B Dushyanth +4 more
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Child suicide rates during the COVID-19 pandemic in England
Background: There is concern about the impact of COVID-19, and the control measures to prevent the spread, on children's mental health. The aim of this work was to identify if there had been a rise of childhood suicide during the COVID pandemic.
David Odd +4 more
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BackgroundA global reduction in hospital admissions for acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (AECOPD) was observed during the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Jonas Poucineau +10 more
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Clinical characteristics and outcomes of critically Ill patients with COVID-19 in Northeast Ohio: low mortality and length of stay [PDF]
Background Published coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) reports suggest higher mortality with increasing age and comorbidities. Our study describes the clinical characteristics and outcomes for all intensive care unit (ICU) patients admitted across the ...
Francois Abi Fadel +6 more
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Summary: Background: Hong Kong followed a strict COVID-19 elimination strategy in 2020. We estimated the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic responses on all-cause and cause-specific hospitalizations and deaths in 2020.
Hualei Xin +7 more
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A retrospective review of the contribution of rare diseases to paediatric mortality in Ireland
Aims To ascertain the number of paediatric deaths (0–14 years) with an underlying rare disease in the Republic of Ireland between the years 2006–2016, and to analyse bed usage by a paediatric cohort of rare disease inpatients prior to in-hospital death ...
Emer Gunne +5 more
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BackgroundCoexistence of cancer and COVID-19 is associated with worse outcomes. However, the studies on cancer-related characteristics associated with worse COVID-19 outcomes have shown controversial results.
Pedro Caruso +19 more
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The operative risk stratification models in cardiac surgery: EuroSCORE II model - risk groups categorization [PDF]
Background/Aim. The treshold that defines a low, moderate or high-risk patients is not uniformly determined for the European System for Cardiac Operative Risk Evaluation (EuroSCORE II) by literature at present.
Nežić Duško +4 more
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Reappraisal of sepsis-3 and CLIF-SOFA as predictors of mortality in patients with cirrhosis and infection presenting to the emergency department: A multicenter study [PDF]
Background/Aims Sepsis-3 criteria and quick Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (qSOFA) have been advocated to be used in defining sepsis in the general population.
Ji Hyun Kim +14 more
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The Use of Protective Ventilation in Post-COVID Respiratory Failure
Implementation of the principles of protective ventilation in the intensive care of respiratory failure in patients after COVID-19 can improve the results of treatment of patients with cardiosurgical abnormalities, namely the implementation of surgical ...
Hanna B. Koltunova +2 more
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