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Time to intubation is associated with outcome in patients with community-acquired pneumonia. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2013
INTRODUCTION: It has been suggested that delayed intensive care unit (ICU) transfer is associated with increased mortality for patients with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP).
Sami Hraiech, Julie Alingrin, Stéphanie Dizier, Julie Brunet, Jean-Marie Forel, Bernard La Scola, Antoine Roch, Laurent Papazian, Vanessa Pauly   +8 more
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Management of Mechanical Ventilation in Decompensated Heart Failure. [PDF]

, 2016
Mechanical ventilation (MV) is a life-saving intervention for respiratory failure, including decompensated congestive heart failure. MV can reduce ventricular preload and afterload, decrease extra-vascular lung water, and decrease the work of breathing ...
Adams, Jason Y, Bradley, Laura A, Dempsey, Timothy M, Kuhn, Brooks T, Puro, Alana C   +4 more
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Epidemiology of invasive aspergillosis in critically ill patients : clinical presentation, underlying conditions, and outcome [PDF]

, 2015
Introduction: Invasive aspergillosis (IA) is a fungal infection that particularly affects immunocompromised hosts. Recently, several studies have indicated a high incidence of IA in intensive care unit (ICU) patients.
Blasco-Navalpotro, Miguel, Blot, Stijn I, Bulpa, Pierre, Cardoso, Teresa, De Laere, Emmanuel, Dimopoulos, George, Meersseman, Wouter, Misset, Benoit, Paiva, José-Artur, Rello, Jordi, Taccone, Fabio Silvio, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Van den Abeele, Anne-Marie, Vogelaers, Dirk   +13 more
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Robust, maintainable, emergency invasive mechanical ventilator

Revista Brasileira de Terapia Intensiva, 2022
To develop a simple, robust, safe and efficient invasive mechanical ventilator that can be used in remote areas of the world or war zones where the practical utility of more sophisticated equipment is limited by considerations of maintainability, availability of parts, transportation and/or cost.The device implements the pressure-controlled continuous ...
Fonte, Paulo J. R., Martinho, Alberto, Pereira, Américo, Gomes, Andreia, Neves, Ângela, Abrunhosa, Antero, Bugalho, António, Gabriel-Santos, António, Grilo, António, Carmo, Carlos, Maltez, Elsa, do Nascimento, João Agostinho, Goes, João, Martins, João, Oliveira, João Pedro, Pimenta, Jorge, Santos, José Paulo, Gil, Luís C., Lopes, Luís, Pimenta, Mário, Moreira, Olga, Cunha, Orlando, de Sousa, Pedro Pinheiro, Póvoa, Pedro, Cavaco-Gonçalves, Sandra, Barroso, Susana, Santos, Telmo G.   +26 more
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Non-Invasive Mechanical Ventilation in Children with Previous Unsuccessful Weaning from Respiratory Therapy

Galician Medical Journal, 2020
The objective of the research was to establish the impact of diaphragm-protective mechanical ventilation on the rate of successful weaning from invasive and non-invasive mechanical ventilation in children with acute respiratory failure.
Olha Filyk
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Epidemiology, patterns of care, and mortality for patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome in intensive care units in 50 countries [PDF]

, 2016
IMPORTANCE: Limited information exists about the epidemiology, recognition, management, and outcomes of patients with the acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS).
Alejandro, Risso V., Alvarez, Javier, Bellani, Giacomo, Bettini, Lisandro R., Bisso, Mariano Carboni, Brochard, Laurent, Cani, Alma, Cardonnet, Luis P., Chena, Ariel, Conti, Sara, Daldin, Julio, Dellera, Christian, Esteban, Andres, Estenssoro, Elisa, Fan, Eddy, Fernandez, Ruben O., Francois, Guy M., Gattinoni, Luciano, Grubissich, Nicolas, Ilutovich, Santiago, Insaurralde, Carolina S., Laffey, John G., Larsson, Anders, Lovazzano, Pablo, Madotto, Fabiana, McAuley, Daniel F., Nunci, Lordian, Osman, Emilio M., Pellegrini, Carlos A., Pesenti, Antonio, Pham, Tài, Plotnikow, Gustavo A., Pozo, Norberto C., Rabboni, Francesca, Ranieri, Marco, Rubenfeld, Gordon, Saenz, María G., Schultz, Marcus J., Setten, Mariano G., Simonis, Fabienne D., Slutsky, Arthur S., Sula, Hektor, Thompson, B. Taylor, Tiribelli, Norberto, van Haren, Frank, Vasquez, Daniela N., Villar, Veronica, Vinzio, Mauricio, Wrigge, Hermann, Zazu, Alan   +49 more
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Noninvasive mechanical ventilation in high-risk pulmonary infections: a clinical review [PDF]

, 2014
The aim of this article was to review the role of noninvasive ventilation (NIV) in acute pulmonary infectious diseases, such as severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), H1N1 and tuberculosis, and to assess the risk of disease transmission with the use ...
Ambrosino, Nicolino, Depuydt, Pieter, Esquinas, Antonio M, Gay, Peter, Girault, Christophe, Han, Fang, Hui, David S, International NIV Network, on behalf of the, Papadakos, Peter J, Pravinkumar, S Egbert, Scala, Raffaele, Soroksky, Arie   +11 more
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Trends in Pediatric Patient-Ventilator Asynchrony During Invasive Mechanical Ventilation [PDF]

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, 2021
OBJECTIVES: To explore the level and time course of patient-ventilator asynchrony in mechanically ventilated children and the effects on duration of mechanical ventilation, PICU stay, and Comfort Behavior Score as indicator for patient comfort.
Blokpoel, Robert G. T., Burgerhof, Johannes G. M., Markhorst, Dick G., Kneyber, Martin C. J.   +3 more
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Emergency department length of stay for patients requiring mechanical ventilation: a prospective observational study [PDF]

, 2012
BACKGROUND: Recommendations for acceptable emergency department (ED) length of stay (LOS) vary internationally with ≤ 8 h generally considered acceptable.
Alex Kiss, Andrew Worster, Clare Atzema, Damon C Scales, Gordon Rubenfeld, Jacques Lee, Karen Burns, Louise Rose, Sara Gray   +8 more
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Mortality of Patients with Hematological Malignancy after Admission to the Intensive Care Unit [PDF]

, 2012
Background: The admission of patients with malignancies to an intensive care unit (ICU) still remains a matter of substantial controversy. The identification of factors that potentially influence the patient outcome can help ICU professionals make ...
Alexander Mück, Andreas Hausmann, Cherif H, Ferra C, Fu S, H. Joachim Stemmler, Hampshire PA, Johanna Tischer, Klaus G. Parhofer, Le Gall JR, Maccariello E, Maschmeyer G, McGrath S, Philipp C. Mandel, Regazzoni CJ, Sandra Geiger, Soares M, Sophia Horster, Souza-Dantas VC, Thiery G, Vandijck DM, Wachter RM   +21 more
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