Jul 09, 2020

Globally, pneumonia is the leading cause of death among children. Few data exist regarding the effect of Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) vaccine and 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV-1...

Jul 07, 2020

Data indicate that acute kidney injury (AKI) affects one-third of children admitted to a pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) and is related to the development of several complications and poor outcom...

Jul 06, 2020

Data showing an increase in prevalence of MRSA and other multi-drug resistant organism (MDRO) infections in ICU patients suggests that antimicrobial resistance continues to increase in this population...

Jul 06, 2020

Numerous studies have been conducted to project temperature-related mortality under climate change scenarios. However, most of the previous evidence has been limited to the total or non-accidental mor...

Jul 06, 2020

MiR-483-3p is involved in the pathogenesis of acute myocardial infarctions, but its association with myocardial ischemia reperfusion (IR) remains mostly unknown. In this study, an in vitro model of my...

Jul 06, 2020

In recent years, extended endoscopic endonasal approach (EEEA) has been used as an alternative to transcranial approaches in the treatment of anterior midline skull base lesions. We retrospectively re...

Jul 06, 2020

The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has been identified as responsible for the COVID-19 outbreak worldwide. Data on treatment are scare and parallels are made between SARS...

Jul 06, 2020

As of April 17th, 2020, more than 2,190,010 COVID-19 cases with 147,010 deaths have been recorded worldwide. It has been suggested that a high mortality rate occurs in patients with severe disease and...

Jul 06, 2020

 According to the most recent metanalysis, the best way to establish safe enteral feeding in preterm babies using nasogastric or orogastric tubes is still not well understood. This study aimed to de...

Jul 06, 2020

High blood pressure variability (BPV) is a novel risk factor for cardiovascular disease. However, the heterogeneity of systolic blood pressure variability (SBPV) and diastolic blood pressure variabili...

Jul 06, 2020

Recently, the definition of sepsis has changed from a physiologic derangement (Sepsis-1 and -2) to organ dysfunction (Sepsis-3) based. We sought to determine the concordance between the different seps...

Jul 06, 2020

species have been recognized to cause infections in immunocompromised individuals. The purpose of this study was to systemically review all published cases of infections in humans and describe the e...

Jul 06, 2020

We investigated the potential link between trauma center American College of Surgeons verification level and institutional volume of penetrating thoracic trauma with outcomes for patients with penetra...

Jul 06, 2020

There is a paucity of data to predict early death or futility after trauma. The objective of this study was to characterize the laboratory values, blood product administration, and hospital dispositio...

Jul 06, 2020

Traumatic brain injury is a silent epidemic with major impacts on national productivity as it affects the economically productive age group. Bilateral injuries are usually severe with no clearly defin...

Jul 06, 2020

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a major cause of mortality and morbidity in Uganda and other low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Due to the difficulty of long-term in-person follow-up, there is ...

Jul 06, 2020

Fear of physical activity (FoPA) is prevalent in patients with heart failure and associated with lower physical activity despite medical exercise prescriptions. The present study examined physiologica...

Jul 06, 2020

The long-term implications of tracheostomy in cardiac surgical patients are largely unknown. We sought to investigate outcomes including decannulation and long-term mortality in a population of post-c...

Jul 06, 2020

Central sleep apnea is common in heart failure patients. Transvenous phrenic nerve stimulation (TPNS) requires placing a lead to stimulate the phrenic nerve and activate the diaphragm. Data are lackin...

Jul 06, 2020

There are concerns that public anxiety around Covid-19 discourages patients from seeking medical help. The aim of this study was to see how lockdown due to the pandemic affected the number of admissio...