Critical Care General
Oct 15, 2020
Microglia, the resident macrophages of the brain parenchyma, are key players in central nervous system (CNS) development, homeostasis, and disorders. Distinct brain pathologies seem associated with di...
Oct 15, 2020
The qSOFA score shows similarities to the CRB-65 pneumonia score, but its prognostic accuracy in patients with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) has not been extensively evaluated. The aim was to val...
Oct 15, 2020
Thromboelastometry/elastography (ROTEM/TEG) showed promising results for diagnosis of sepsis-induced coagulopathy, but their association with the outcome is unclear. Our aim was to assess any differen...
Oct 15, 2020
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a global pandemic causing one of the biggest challenges for critical care medicine. Mortality from COVID-19 is much greater in elderly men, many of whom succumb ...
Oct 15, 2020
In December 2019, a new coronavirus, named SARS-CoV-2, has emerged from China causing pneumonia outbreaks first in the Wuhan region and have now spread worldwide but there are still no "specific drug"...
Oct 15, 2020
Anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF) is an established treatment modality for cervical spondylosis. Many patients are on immunosuppressant therapy in the management of various inflammatory s...
Oct 15, 2020
Septic arthritis (SA) is a devastating infection with a high rate of sequelae. The aim of this retrospective study was to determine the epidemiology, clinically significant sequelae and risk factors f...
Oct 15, 2020
Patients with immune deficiencies from cancers and associated treatments represent a growing population within the intensive care unit with increased risk of morbidity and mortality from sepsis. Mesen...
Oct 15, 2020
The neuropsychological assessment is a cornerstone in the care management of concussion or mild traumatic injury.To present the different stages of an exhaustive neuropsychological assessment explorin...
Oct 15, 2020
Mild Traumatic Brain Injury (mTBI) is a public health issue with approximately 42 million people worldwide affected yearly. Most patients have a favorable short-term recovery but 10-20% are likely to ...
Oct 15, 2020
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a major public health problem because of its severity and frequency. No recent national epidemiological study on TBI victims is currently available in France.This study...
Oct 15, 2020
Congenital heart disease (CHD) affects nearly 1% of births. As survival rates have dramatically improved, the majority of individuals with CHD now live into adulthood. As these patients age, they beco...
Oct 15, 2020
A Covid-19 outbreak developed in Lombardy, Veneto and Emilia-Romagna (Italy) at the end of February 2020. Fear of an imminent saturation of available ICU beds generated the notion that rationing of in...
Oct 15, 2020
Aging is an independent risk factor for cardiovascular diseases, such as myocardial infarction due to ischemia-reperfusion injury (I/R) of the heart. Cytosolic thioredoxin (Trx) is a multifunctional r...
Oct 15, 2020
Lamiaceae (Labiatae) are an important group of medicinal plants, which have been used for treating heart disease in traditional medicine for centuries. These mainly aromatic plants are used as essenti...
Oct 15, 2020
Children's respiratory health are particularly vulnerable to outdoor air pollution, but evidence is lacking on the very acute effects of air pollution on the risk of acute upper respiratory infections...
Oct 15, 2020
Einleitung: Ziel dieser systematischen Übersicht war die Bewertung der verfügbaren Evidenz zur Wirkung der Kneipp-Therapie. Methoden: MEDLINE, Embase, Web of Science, Cochrane-Library und CAMbase wu...
Oct 13, 2020
This problem of Intra-Abdominal Hypertension is usually present in patients who are very ill. This is an important factor that hints about death, fatality, and mortality. The factors which are in the ...
Oct 13, 2020
The outbreak of the COVID-19 has been able to take a toll on the lives of many people across the world. This is because of the reason that there is no vaccine available to cure this problem. In additi...
Oct 12, 2020
Hypoxemia is the main component of COVID-19 related acute respiratory distress syndrome, however, its mechanisms are disputed, especially in patients with low respiratory system elastance (Ers). About...