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Frequency and Intensive Care Related Risk Factors of Pneumothorax in Ventilated Neonates

Pulmonary Medicine, 2014
Objectives. Relationships of mechanical ventilation to pneumothorax in neonates and care procedures in particular are rarely studied. We aimed to evaluate the relationship of selected ventilator variables and risk events to pneumothorax.
Ramesh Bhat Yellanthoor, Vidya Ramdas
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Influencing factors of pneumothorax and parenchymal haemorrhage after CT-guided transthoracic needle biopsy : single-institution experience [PDF]

, 2018
Purpose: To evaluate the incidences and influencing factors of pneumothorax and parenchymal haemorrhage after computed tomography (CT)-guided transthoracic needle biopsy (TTNB). Material and methods: A retrospective analysis of 216 patients who underwent
Puntu, Warunyoo, Vithitsuvanakul, Nophadol, Wattanasatesiri, Tunyarat   +2 more
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Chylous Leak During Posterior Approach to Juvenile Scoliosis Surgery: A Case Report. [PDF]

, 2020
CaseWe report the first documented case of chylous leak recognized intraoperatively during posterior spinal instrumentation and fusion for juvenile scoliosis in a female patient with a history of thoracotomy and decortication for an empyema ...
Choi, Daniel E, Rynecki, Nicole, Sabharwal, Sanjeev, Sambol, Justin T, Shah, Harsh A, Vives, Michael J   +5 more
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Spontaneous Pneumothorax [PDF]

Scandinavian Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, 1948
Patients with spontaneous pneumothorax, who were treated in this department during the period 1950-59, were reviewed in 1963. Since the treatment of this group of patients has changed radically towards a greater surgical activity in the form of suction drainage and thoracotomy, the patients from the next decade, comprising 229 episodes in 202 patients,
F, Abyholm, G, Storen, O, Geiran
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Exercise and Nutrition Prehabilitation Program During Preoperative Chemotherapy Followed by Esophagectomy in Older Patients With Esophageal Cancer: A Randomized Clinical Trial

Annals of Gastroenterological Surgery, EarlyView.
This prospective randomized trial evaluated whether prehabilitation, exercise and nutrition intervention, enhance skeletal muscle mass during neoadjuvant chemotherapy in older patients with esophageal cancer undergoing esophagectomy. We also investigated whether exercise alone was sufficient to increase skeletal muscle mass, and whether nutritional ...
Keijiro Sugimura, Takashi Kanemura, Tomohira Takeoka, Takahito Sugase, Norihiro Matsuura, Kazuyoshi Yamamoto, Masahiko Yano, Hiroshi Miyata   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Detecting pneumothorax during cardiopulmonary resuscitation: The potential of defibrillator measured transthoracic impedance

Resuscitation Plus
Introduction: Pneumothorax is a potentially life-treating condition that can represents a complication of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). An increase in the total amount of air within the thorax may act as an insulator increasing transthoracic ...
Aurora Magliocca, Donatella De Zani, Giulia Merigo, Marianna Cerrato, Daria De Giorgio, Francesca Motta, Francesca Fumagalli, Davide Zani, Giacomo Grasselli, Giuseppe Ristagno   +9 more
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Patient safety indicators for England from hospital administrative data: case-control analysis and comparison with US data [PDF]

, 2008
This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.The Healthcare Commission ...
Bremner, SA, Cooper, J, Raleigh, VS, Scobie, S   +3 more
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Multivariate Contrastive Predictive Coding with Sliding Windows for Disease Prediction from Electronic Health Records

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
Adaptive multi‐indicator contrastive predictive coding is introduced as a self‐supervised pretraining framework for multivariate EHR time series. An adaptive sliding‐window algorithm and 2D convolutional neural network encoder capture localized temporal patterns and global indicator dependencies, enabling label‐efficient disease prediction that ...
Hongxu Yuan, Xiaozhu Jing, Yuzheng Yan, Wuman Luo   +3 more
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Pneumothorax and Pneumomediastinum in a Sputum Positive Tuberculosis Patient: The Continuous Diaphragm Sign [PDF]

, 2012
Secondary pneumothorax is a very common medical emergency. At times it is associated with pneumomediastinum, which could be fatal at times if not identified.
Bhatia, V, Jhobta, A, Mokta, JK, Panda, P, Sharma, S, Sood, RG   +5 more
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Pneumothorax ex vacuo in a Patient with Malignant Pleural Effusion After PleurX Catheter Placement [PDF]

, 2015
Introduction Pneumothorax ex vacuo (“without vaccuum”) is a type of pneumothorax that can develop in patients with large pleural effusions. Unlike spontaneous or tension pneumothoraces, pneumothorax ex vacuo does not require chest tube placement. Careful
Bhardwaj, MS4, Meera, Ragupathi, MD, Loheetha   +1 more
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