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Critical Care General

A clinic blueprint for post-COVID-19 RECOVERY: Learning from the past, looking to the future.

Nov 12, 2020

The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic poses extraordinary challenges. The tremendous number of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases in the United States has re...

Tranexamic Acid Inhibits Hematoma Expansion in Intracerebral Hemorrhage and Traumatic Brain Injury. Does Blood Pressure Play a Potential Role? A Meta-Analysis from Randmized Controlled Trials.

Nov 12, 2020

Tranexamic acid (TXA) is an antifibrinolytic agent, which has shown an effect on reducing blood loss in many diseases. Many studies focus on the effect of TXA on cerebral hemorrhage, however, whether ...

Characteristics and Comparison of 32 COVID-19 and Non-COVID-19 Ischemic Strokes and Historical Stroke Patients.

Nov 12, 2020

The presence of COVID-19 infection may increase the risk of thrombotic events including ischemic strokes. Whilst a number of recent reports suggest that COVID-19 associated stroke tends to be severe, ...

Neonatal late-onset infection with SARS CoV-2

Nov 09, 2020

During the SARS COV-2 pandemic, the vast majority of infected patients are showing symptoms related to lung damage. At pediatric ages, especially newborns, symptoms from other organ systems without re...

Lactate/albumin ratio: An early prognostic marker in critically ill patients.

Nov 09, 2020

We investigate the clinical utility of the lactate/albumin (L/A) ratio as an early prognostic marker of ICU mortality in a large cohort of unselected critically ill patients.A retrospective single-cen...

Artificial Intelligence in the Intensive Care Unit.

Nov 09, 2020

The diffusion of electronic health records collecting large amount of clinical, monitoring, and laboratory data produced by intensive care units (ICUs) is the natural terrain for the application of ar...

Ocular surface manifestations of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19): A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Nov 09, 2020

This study was performed to determine the occurrence of ocular surface manifestations in patients diagnosed with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) due to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronaviru...

Prevalence and antimicrobial resistance of opportunistic pathogens associated with bovine respiratory disease isolated from nasopharyngeal swabs of veal calves in Switzerland.

Nov 09, 2020

The composition of the bacterial flora in the calf nasopharynx might influence the risk of bovine respiratory disease (BRD). The aims of the present study were, firstly, to investigate the prevalence ...

Cardiovascular- and Bleeding-Related Hospitalization Rates With Edoxaban Versus Warfarin in Patients With Atrial Fibrillation Based on Results of the ENGAGE AF-TIMI 48 Trial.

Nov 09, 2020

Background The ENGAGE AF-TIMI 48 trial (Effective Anticoagulation With Factor Xa Next Generation in Atrial Fibrillation-Thrombolysis in Myocardial Infarction 48) demonstrated noninferiority of once-da...

Alternate recurrent coronary artery spasm and stress cardiomyopathy: a case report.

Nov 09, 2020

Coronary artery spasm (CAS) and stress cardiomyopathy (SC) have different characteristic clinical manifestations in the case of suspicious myocardial infarction with nonobstructive coronary arteries. ...

Outcomes of Medicare beneficiaries hospitalised with transient ischaemic attack and stratification using the ABCD score.

Nov 09, 2020

Long-term outcomes for Medicare beneficiaries hospitalised with transient ischaemic attack (TIA) and role of ABCD score in identifying high-risk individuals are not studied.We identified 40 825 Medi...

Poor postnatal weight growth is a late finding after sepsis in very preterm infants.

Nov 09, 2020

To characterise the association between sepsis and postnatal weight growth when accounting for the degree of growth restriction present at birth.Retrospective matched cohort study using data from the ...

Peptides from Animal Origin: A Systematic Review on Biological Sources and Effects on Skin Wounds.

Nov 09, 2020

Skin wounds are closely correlated with opportunistic infections and sepsis risk. Due to the need of more efficient healing drugs, animal peptides are emerging as new molecular platforms to accelerate...

Sepsis and septic shock - an observational study of the incidence, management, and mortality predictors in a medical intensive care unit.

Nov 09, 2020

To prospectively determine the number of patients with sepsis and septic shock in a medical intensive care unit (ICU) using the Sepsis-3 definition; to analyze patients' characteristics, clinical sign...

TBI as a Risk Factor for Substance Use Behaviors: A Meta-Analysis.

Nov 09, 2020

To quantify the relationship between substance use behaviors before and after TBI, to identify populations that may benefit more from targeted interventions to reduce the impact of substance use on TB...

Characterization of On-Field Head Impact Exposure in Youth Soccer.

Nov 09, 2020

The objective of this research was to characterize head impacts with a validated mouthpiece sensor in competitive youth female soccer players during a single season with a validated mouthpiece sensor....

Hydrogel-mediated local delivery of dexamethasone reduces neuroinflammation after traumatic brain injury.

Nov 09, 2020

Excessive and prolonged neuroinflammation leads to neuronal cell death and limits functional recovery after traumatic brain injury (TBI). Dexamethasone (DX) is a steroidal anti-inflammatory agent that...

Clinical and gated SPECT MPI parameters associated with super-response to cardiac resynchronization therapy.

Nov 09, 2020

We sought to evaluate the behavior of cardiac mechanical synchrony as measured by phase SD (PSD) derived from gated MPI SPECT (gSPECT) in patients with super-response after CRT and to evaluate the cli...

Inotropic agents and vasodilator strategies for the treatment of cardiogenic shock or low cardiac output syndrome.

Nov 09, 2020

Cardiogenic shock (CS) and low cardiac output syndrome (LCOS) are potentially life-threatening complications of acute myocardial infarction (AMI), heart failure (HF) or cardiac surgery. While there is...

Incidence and outcomes of hospital treated acute myocarditis from 2003 to 2015 in Spain.

Nov 09, 2020

There are no data on population-based epidemiological changes in acute myocarditis in Europe. Our aim was to evaluate temporal trends in incidence, clinical features and outcomes of hospital treated a...

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