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Citation: Critical Care 2008 12:413
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Management and outcomes in critically ill nonagenarian versus octogenarian patients
Intensive care unit (ICU) patients age 90 years or older represent a growing subgroup and place a huge financial burden on health care resources despite the benefit being unclear. This leads to ethical problem...
Citation: BMC Geriatrics 2021 21:576 -
Differences in mortality in critically ill elderly patients during the second COVID-19 surge in Europe
The primary aim of this study was to assess the outcome of elderly intensive care unit (ICU) patients treated during the spring and autumn COVID-19 surges in Europe.
Citation: Critical Care 2021 25:344 -
Noninvasive ventilation in COVID-19 patients aged ≥ 70 years—a prospective multicentre cohort study
Noninvasive ventilation (NIV) is a promising alternative to invasive mechanical ventilation (IMV) with a particular importance amidst the shortage of intensive care unit (ICU) beds during the COVID-19 pandemic...
Citation: Critical Care 2022 26:224 -
The impact of frailty on survival in elderly intensive care patients with COVID-19: the COVIP study
The COVID-19 pandemic has led highly developed healthcare systems to the brink of collapse due to the large numbers of patients being admitted into hospitals. One of the potential prognostic indicators in pati...
Citation: Critical Care 2021 25:149 -
Assessment of monocytic HLA-DR expression in ICU patients: analytical issues for multicentric flow cytometry studies
Citation: Critical Care 2010 14:432 -
Therapeutic hypothermia after cardiac arrest – the implementation of the ILCOR guidelines in clinical routine is possible!
Citation: Critical Care 2006 10:425 -
Therapy-refractory Panton Valentine Leukocidin-positive community-acquired methicillin-sensitive Staphylococcus aureus sepsis with progressive metastatic soft tissue infection: a case report
We report a case of fulminant multiple organ failure including the Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS), haemodynamic, and renal failure due to community-acquired methicillin-sensitive Panton Valentine Leuk...
Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2007 1:165 -
Relationship between the Clinical Frailty Scale and short-term mortality in patients ≥ 80 years old acutely admitted to the ICU: a prospective cohort study
The Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS) is frequently used to measure frailty in critically ill adults. There is wide variation in the approach to analysing the relationship between the CFS score and mortality after ...
Citation: Critical Care 2021 25:231 -
Adrenomedullin in COVID-19 induced endotheliitis
Citation: Critical Care 2020 24:411 -
A rare case of neuroleptic malignant syndrome presenting with serious hyperthermia treated with a non-invasive cooling device: a case report
A rare side effect of antipsychotic medication is neuroleptic malignant syndrome, mainly characterized by hyperthermia, altered mental state, haemodynamic dysregulation, elevated serum creatine kinase and rigo...
Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2009 3:6170 -
Successful resuscitation from prolonged hypothermic cardiac arrest without extracorporeal life support: a case report
We report a case of successful prolonged cardiopulmonary resuscitation (5 hours and 44 minutes) following severe accidental hypothermia with cardiac arrest treated without rewarming on extracorporeal life supp...
Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2019 13:354 -
Fulminant hepatic and multiple organ failure following acute viral tonsillitis: a case report
Pyogenic tonsillitis may often be observed in the general Western population. In severe cases, it may require antibiotic treatment or even hospitalization and often a prompt clinical response will be noted. He...
Citation: Journal of Medical Case Reports 2016 10:7 -
Immune biomarker-based enrichment in sepsis trials
Citation: Critical Care 2020 24:58 -
2-year survival of patients undergoing mild hypothermia treatment after ventricular fibrillation cardiac arrest is significantly improved compared to historical controls
Therapeutic hypothermia has been proven to be effective in improving neurological outcome in patients after cardiac arrest due to ventricular fibrillation (VF). Data concerning the effect of hypothermia treatm...
Citation: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2010 18:2 -
Diagnosis and treatment of neurogenic dysphagia – S1 guideline of the German Society of Neurology
Neurogenic dysphagia defines swallowing disorders caused by diseases of the central and peripheral nervous system, neuromuscular transmission, or muscles. Neurogenic dysphagia is one of the most common and at ...
Citation: Neurological Research and Practice 2021 3:23 -
Immunostimulation using granulocyte- and granulocyte-macrophage colony stimulating factor in patients with severe sepsis and septic shock
Sepsis is associated with failure of multiple organs, including failure of the immune system. The resulting 'sepsis-associated immunosuppression' resembles a state of immunological anergy that is characterized...
Citation: Critical Care 2011 15:136 -
Dysphagia in the intensive care unit: epidemiology, mechanisms, and clinical management
Dysphagia may present in all critically ill patients and large-scale clinical data show that e.g. post-extubation dysphagia (PED) is commonly observed in intensive care unit (ICU) patients. Recent data demonst...
Citation: Critical Care 2019 23:103 -
Effects of stress ulcer prophylaxis in adult ICU patients receiving renal replacement therapy (Sup-Icu RENal, SIREN): Study protocol for a pre-planned observational study
Proton pump inhibitors are often used in critically ill patients to prevent gastrointestinal bleeding despite limited evidence for benefit. Patients with acute kidney injury requiring renal replacement therapy...
Citation: Trials 2018 19:26 -
The effect of continuous versus intermittent renal replacement therapy on the outcome of critically ill patients with acute renal failure (CONVINT): a prospective randomized controlled trial
Acute renal failure (ARF) requiring renal replacement therapy (RRT) occurs frequently in ICU patients and significantly affects mortality rates. Previously, few large clinical trials investigated the impact of...
Citation: Critical Care 2014 18:R11