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Sudden Onset of Coma and Fulminant Progression to Brain Death in a 48-Year-Old Male With Cerebral Malaria

Case Reports in Critical Care
Cerebral malaria is the most severe complication of Plasmodium falciparum infection. Left untreated, it is universally fatal. Coma is the clinical hallmark, emerging between the first and third days of fever.
Marina Costa, Cristiana Barbosa, Mauro Pereira, Luís Ribeiro, Pedro Silveira   +4 more
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Steroid use in PROWESS severe sepsis patients treated with drotrecogin alfa (activated) [PDF]

, 2005
INTRODUCTION: In a study conducted by Annane, patients with septic shock and unresponsive to adrenocorticotropic hormone stimulation receiving low-dose steroid therapy had prolonged survival but not significantly improved 28-day mortality.
16th Annual Congress of the European-Society-of-Intensive-Care-Medicine, Bates, B, Laterre, Pierre-François, Levy, H, Qualy, RL   +4 more
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Interprofessional two-man team approach for interhospital transport of ARDS-patients under extracorporeal membrane oxygenation: a 10 years retrospective observational cohort study

BMC Anesthesiology, 2019
Background Extra Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) has become an accepted treatment option for severely ill patients. Due to a limited availability of ECMO support therapy, patients must often be transported to a specialised centre before or after ...
Stefan Felix Ehrentraut, Barbara Schroll, Stefan Lenkeit, Heidi Ehrentraut, Christian Bode, Stefan Kreyer, Florian Kögl, Felix Lehmann, Thomas Muders, Martin Scholz, Claudia Strater, Folkert Steinhagen, Nils Ulrich Theuerkauf, Carsten Weißbrich, Christian Putensen, Jens-Christian Schewe   +15 more
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Different Hypercoagulable Profiles in Patients with COVID-19 Admitted to the Internal Medicine Ward and the Intensive Care Unit

Thrombosis and Haemostasis, 2020
Coagulation abnormalities were common fi ndings in critically ill patients affected by coronavirus infection disease (COVID)-19 and often correlated to more severe illness and poor ...
A. Boscolo, L. Spiezia, Christelle Correale, Nicolò Sella, E. Pesenti, Luca Beghetto, E. Campello, Francesco Poletto, L. Cerruti, M. Cola, A. De Cassai, L. Pasin, Serra Eugenio, R. Vettor, A. Cattelan, P. Simioni, P. Navalesi   +16 more
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Teaching paediatric critical care medicine to paediatric residents [PDF]

, 2010
Critical care training during paediatric residency provides an ideal opportunity to learn and refine the skills needed in the early recognition and prompt treatment of the acutely ill paediatric patients. Paediatric critical care medicine is a relatively
Haider, Rizwan, Haque, Anwarul, Salat, Muhammad Sohail   +2 more
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The practice of glycaemic control in intensive care units: A multicentre survey of nursing and medical professionals. [PDF]

, 2019
AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: To determine the views of nurses and physicians working in intensive care units (ICU) about the aims of glycaemic control and use of their protocols.
Aragon D., Bland D. K., Core Standards Working Party of the Joint Professional Standards Committee of the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine (FICM) and the Intensive Care Society (ICS), Draper D. A., Fehrenbach S. N., Mid Trent Critical Care Network, Preiser J. C.   +6 more
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Study of risk factors for healthcare-associated infections in acute cardiac patients using categorical principal component analysis (CATPCA)

Scientific Reports, 2022
Using categorical principal component analysis, we aimed to determine the relationship between health care-associated infections (HAIs) and diagnostic categories (DCs) in patients with acute heart disease using data collected in the Spanish prospective ...
Emilio Renes Carreño, Almudena Escribá Bárcena, Mercedes Catalán González, Francisco Álvarez Lerma, Mercedes Palomar Martínez, Xavier Nuvials Casals, Felisa Jaén Herreros, Juan Carlos Montejo González   +7 more
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Better COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit survival in females, independent of age, disease severity, comorbidities, and treatment

Scientific Reports, 2022
Although male Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) patients have higher Intensive Care Unit (ICU) admission rates and a worse disease course, a comprehensive analysis of female and male ICU survival and underlying factors such as ...
Daniek A. M. Meijs, Bas C. T. van Bussel, Björn Stessel, Jannet Mehagnoul-Schipper, Anisa Hana, Clarissa I. E. Scheeren, Sanne A. E. Peters, Walther N. K. A. van Mook, Iwan C. C. van der Horst, Gernot Marx, Dieter Mesotten, Chahinda Ghossein-Doha, CoDaP investigators   +12 more
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Statement paper on diversity for the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM)

Intensive Care Medicine, 2019
IntroductionDiversity has become a key-strategic element of success in various political and economic fields. The European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM) decided to make diversity a key strategic priority for the future and appointed a Task ...
B. Weiss
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Comparative evaluation of therapeutic interventions during hemorrhagic shock [PDF]

, 2011
Trabalho apresentado ao 31º International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine, 2011 ...
AR Martins, D Fantoni, DA Otsuki, E Andrades, E Chaib, FA Voorwald, JA Filho, M Liberman   +7 more
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