Critical Care General
May 16, 2020
Published reports indicate that as many as 8% of cardiac surgical patients are readmitted to a cardiovascular intensive care unit (CVICU) during the same hospital stay, with readmission associated wit...
May 14, 2020
Data indicate that more than 6 million people will become critically ill each year, and of these patients, an increasing number will survive due to advances in critical care. These treatments, however...
May 12, 2020
Stroke is the second leading cause of death worldwide and a leading cause of disability. Most strokes are caused by occlusion of a major cerebral artery, and substantial advances have been made in elu...
May 12, 2020
Solid-state zinc ion sensor is developed with high enough resolution and reproducibility for the potential application in brain injury monitoring. An optical diffuser is incorporated into the zinc ion...
May 12, 2020
Spleen volume reduction followed by re-expansion has been described in acute ischemic stroke in both animal and human studies. Splenic contraction might be partially due to sympathetic hyperactivity a...
May 12, 2020
The objective of this study was to investigate the association between body mass index (BMI) and both initial stroke severity at presentation and functional outcomes after acute ischemic stroke (AIS) ...
May 12, 2020
To determine the differences in the frequencies of polymorphic variants at the rs4244285(*2), rs4986893 (*3), rs12248560 (*17), loci of the gene, and the rs2305948 locus of the gene in patients rec...
May 12, 2020
Disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) is a consumptive coagulopathy associated with multiple conditions. Diagnosis is based upon clinical and laboratory findings with assessment of fibrinogen,...
May 12, 2020
Cronobacter sakazakii is an important opportunistic food-borne pathogen, and it can cause severe diseases with main symptoms including neonatal meningitis, necrotizing enterocolitis, and sepsis. For t...
May 12, 2020
Acute diverticulitis is an emergency surgical condition that is commonly managed an acute surgical unit model. Operative surgery is indicated in selected situations including generalized peritonitis ...
May 12, 2020
To investigate the CT findings of patients with different clinical types of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).A total of 67 patients diagnosed as COVID-19 by nucleic acid testing were collected and ...
May 12, 2020
Background Atypical manifestations of COVID-19 are being encountered as the pandemic unfolds, leading to non-chest CT scans that may uncover unsuspected pulmonary disease. Purpose To investigate patie...
May 12, 2020
Electronic cigarettes have rapidly attracted interest as a method to help people quit smoking, on the premise that e-cigarettes are less harmful than tobacco. However, so far studies have not provided...
May 12, 2020
Bacterial infectious diseases are a major threat to human health. Timely and sensitive pathogenic bacteria detection is crucial in bacterial contaminations identification and preventing the spread of ...
May 12, 2020
In the last decades lung ultrasound (LUS) has become of crucial importance in the evaluation and monitoring of a widely range of pulmonary diseases. One of the major benefits which favours this examin...
May 12, 2020
Cognitive impairment following a minor stroke or transient ischemic attack (TIA) is common; however, due to diagnostic difficulties, the prevalence and underlying cause of impairment remain poorly de...
May 12, 2020
Unrealistic comparative optimism (UO), as the erroneous judgement of personal risks to be lower than the risks of others, could help explain differences in diabetes self-management. The present study ...
May 12, 2020
The aim of this review is to analyze whether there is a need for scientific information about the beta blocker (BB) rebound phenomenon; whether such information is available; and, if it is, how detail...
May 12, 2020
This study aimed to compare the characteristics of mRNA expression of genes in complement system between acute arterial thrombotic patients and paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (PAF) patients.Twenty acu...
May 12, 2020
Although some information on the epidemiology of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and a few selected cases has been reported, data on the clinical characteristics and outco...