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Citation: Critical Care 2021 25:100
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Systematic review of cognitive impairment and brain insult after mechanical ventilation
We conducted a systematic review following the PRISMA protocol primarily to identify publications that assessed any links between mechanical ventilation (MV) and either cognitive impairment or brain insult, in...
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Diuretics decrease fluid balance in patients on invasive mechanical ventilation: the randomized-controlled single blind, IRIHS study
Fluid overload has been associated with increased morbidity and mortality in critically ill patients. The goal of this study was to assess the efficacy and safety of a diuretic strategy to overcome positive fl...
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Extracorporeal myoglobin removal in severe rhabdomyolysis with high cut-off membranes—intermittent dialysis achieves much greater clearances than continuous methods
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Letter to the editor regarding “Accelerated versus standard initiation of renal replacement therapy for critically ill patients with acute kidney injury: a systematic review and meta-analysis of RCT studies”
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Endotheliopathy in septic conditions: mechanistic insight into intravascular coagulation
Endothelial cells play a key role in maintaining intravascular patency through their anticoagulant properties. They provide a favorable environment for plasma anticoagulant proteins, including antithrombin, ti...
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Early rehabilitation in ICU for COVID-19: what about FES-cycling?
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Complete percutaneous angio-guided approach using preclosing for venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation implantation and explantation in patients with refractory cardiogenic shock or cardiac arrest
The approach for veno-arterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation implantation (VA-ECMO) in patients with cardiogenic shock can be either surgical or percutaneous. Complete angio-guided percutaneous implantat...
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Towards use of POCUS to evaluate hemodynamics in critically ill neonates: caution before adoption in this population
Citation: Critical Care 2021 25:92 -
Renin–angiotensin system dysregulation in critically ill patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome due to COVID-19: a preliminary report
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Survival after extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in severe COVID-19 ARDS: results from an international multicenter registry
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Effects of surgical masks on droplet dispersion under various oxygen delivery modalities
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Energy delivery guided by indirect calorimetry in critically ill patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis
The use of indirect calorimetry (IC) is increasing due to its precision in resting energy expenditure (REE) measurement in critically ill patients. Thus, we aimed to evaluate the clinical outcomes of an IC-gui...
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Temporal changes in the epidemiology, management, and outcome from acute respiratory distress syndrome in European intensive care units: a comparison of two large cohorts
Mortality rates for patients with ARDS remain high. We assessed temporal changes in the epidemiology and management of ARDS patients requiring invasive mechanical ventilation in European ICUs. We also investig...
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Long-term outcome after intensive care for COVID-19: differences between men and women—a nationwide cohort study
Questions remain about long-term outcome for COVID-19 patients in general, and differences between men and women in particular given the fact that men seem to suffer a more dramatic course of the disease. We t...
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Closed-loop circuit for reduce oxygen waste on hollow-fiber oxygenators during extracorporeal technologies
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Frailty status among older critically ill patients with severe acute kidney injury
Frailty status among critically ill patients with acute kidney injury (AKI) is not well described despite its importance for prognostication and informed decision-making on life-sustaining therapies. In this s...
Citation: Critical Care 2021 25:84 -
Predicting neurological outcome after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest with cumulative information; development and internal validation of an artificial neural network algorithm
Prognostication of neurological outcome in patients who remain comatose after cardiac arrest resuscitation is complex. Clinical variables, as well as biomarkers of brain injury, cardiac injury, and systemic in...
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Long-term health-related quality of life and burden of disease after intensive care: development of a patient-reported outcome measure
ICU survivorship includes a diverse burden of disease. Current questionnaires used for collecting information about health-related problems and their relation to quality of life lack detailed questions in seve...
Citation: Critical Care 2021 25:82 -
Computed tomography assessment of PEEP-induced alveolar recruitment in patients with severe COVID-19 pneumonia
There is a paucity of data concerning the optimal ventilator management in patients with COVID-19 pneumonia; particularly, the optimal levels of positive-end expiratory pressure (PEEP) are unknown. We aimed to...
Citation: Critical Care 2021 25:81 -
Helmet CPAP to treat hypoxic pneumonia outside the ICU: an observational study during the COVID-19 outbreak
Respiratory failure due to COVID-19 pneumonia is associated with high mortality and may overwhelm health care systems, due to the surge of patients requiring advanced respiratory support. Shortage of intensive...
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Causes and timing of death in critically ill COVID-19 patients
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Use and impact of high intensity treatments in patients with traumatic brain injury across Europe: a CENTER-TBI analysis
To study variation in, and clinical impact of high Therapy Intensity Level (TIL) treatments for elevated intracranial pressure (ICP) in patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI) across European Intensive Care...
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Drug dosing in the critically ill obese patient: a focus on medications for hemodynamic support and prophylaxis
Medications used for supportive care or prophylaxis constitute a significant portion of drug utilization in the intensive care unit. Evidence-based guidelines are available for many aspects of supportive care ...
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Role of endothelial microRNA 155 on capillary leakage in systemic inflammation
Capillary leakage is a key contributor to the pathological host response to infections. The underlying mechanisms remain incompletely understood, and the role of microRNAs (MIR) has not been investigated in de...
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Surfactant therapies for pediatric and neonatal ARDS: ESPNIC expert consensus opinion for future research steps
Pediatric (PARDS) and neonatal (NARDS) acute respiratory distress syndrome have different age-specific characteristics and definitions. Trials on surfactant for ARDS in children and neonates have been perform...
Citation: Critical Care 2021 25:75 -
Markers of endothelial and epithelial pulmonary injury in mechanically ventilated COVID-19 ICU patients
Biomarkers can be used to detect the presence of endothelial and/or alveolar epithelial injuries in case of ARDS. Angiopoietin-2 (Ang-2), soluble intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (ICAM-1), vascular cell adhes...
Citation: Critical Care 2021 25:74 -
Reduced gastric acidity, proton pump inhibitors and increased severity of COVID-19 infections
Citation: Critical Care 2021 25:73 -
Epidemiology and microbiology of ventilator-associated pneumonia in COVID-19 patients: a multicenter retrospective study in 188 patients in an un-inundated French region
The COVID-19 pandemic is responsible for many hospitalizations in intensive care units (ICU), with widespread use of invasive mechanical ventilation (IMV) which exposes patients to the risk of ventilator-assoc...
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Factors influencing local signs at catheter insertion site regardless of catheter-related bloodstream infections
Citation: Critical Care 2021 25:71 -
Surge effects and survival to hospital discharge in critical care patients with COVID-19 during the early pandemic: a cohort study
The early months of the COVID-19 pandemic were fraught with much uncertainty and some resource constraint. We assessed the change in survival to hospital discharge over time for intensive care unit patients wi...
Citation: Critical Care 2021 25:70 -
Prevalence of post-intensive care syndrome among Japanese intensive care unit patients: a prospective, multicenter, observational J-PICS study
Many studies have compared quality of life of post-intensive care syndrome (PICS) patients with age-matched population-based controls. Many studies on PICS used the 36-item Short Form (SF-36) health survey que...
Citation: Critical Care 2021 25:69 -
Case fatality ratio of COVID-19 patients requiring invasive mechanical ventilation in Mexico: an analysis of nationwide data
Citation: Critical Care 2021 25:68 -
Epinephrine’s effects on cerebrovascular and systemic hemodynamics during cardiopulmonary resuscitation: metabolic changes may limit the persistence of the effect
Citation: Critical Care 2021 25:67 -
YKL-40 as a new promising prognostic marker of severity in COVID infection
Citation: Critical Care 2021 25:66 -
The role of pro-opiomelanocortin in the ACTH–cortisol dissociation of sepsis
Sepsis is typically hallmarked by high plasma (free) cortisol and suppressed cortisol breakdown, while plasma adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) is not increased, referred to as ‘ACTH–cortisol dissociation.’ W...
Citation: Critical Care 2021 25:65 -
Diaphragm echodensity in mechanically ventilated patients: a description of technique and outcomes
Acute increases in muscle sonographic echodensity reflect muscle injury. Diaphragm echodensity has not been measured in mechanically ventilated patients. We undertook to develop a technique to characterize cha...
Citation: Critical Care 2021 25:64 -
Deploying unsupervised clustering analysis to derive clinical phenotypes and risk factors associated with mortality risk in 2022 critically ill patients with COVID-19 in Spain
The identification of factors associated with Intensive Care Unit (ICU) mortality and derived clinical phenotypes in COVID-19 patients could help for a more tailored approach to clinical decision-making that i...
Citation: Critical Care 2021 25:63 -
Impact of treating iron deficiency, diagnosed according to hepcidin quantification, on outcomes after a prolonged ICU stay compared to standard care: a multicenter, randomized, single-blinded trial
Anemia is a significant problem in patients on ICU. Its commonest cause, iron deficiency (ID), is difficult to diagnose in the context of inflammation. Hepcidin is a new marker of ID. We aimed to assess whethe...
Citation: Critical Care 2021 25:62 -
Monitoring circulating dipeptidyl peptidase 3 (DPP3) predicts improvement of organ failure and survival in sepsis: a prospective observational multinational study
Dipeptidyl peptidase 3 (DPP3) is a cytosolic enzyme involved in the degradation of various cardiovascular and endorphin mediators. High levels of circulating DPP3 (cDPP3) indicate a high risk of organ dysfunct...
Citation: Critical Care 2021 25:61 -
Automated detection and quantification of reverse triggering effort under mechanical ventilation
Reverse triggering (RT) is a dyssynchrony defined by a respiratory muscle contraction following a passive mechanical insufflation. It is potentially harmful for the lung and the diaphragm, but its detection is...
Citation: Critical Care 2021 25:60 -
Airway Pseudomonas aeruginosa density in mechanically ventilated patients: clinical impact and relation to therapeutic efficacy of antibiotics
The bacterial density of Pseudomonas aeruginosa is closely related to its pathogenicity. We evaluated the effect of airway P. aeruginosa density on the clinical course of mechanically ventilated patients and the ...
Citation: Critical Care 2021 25:59 -
High-flow nasal oxygen in patients with COVID-19-associated acute respiratory failure
Whether the use of high-flow nasal oxygen in adult patients with COVID-19 associated acute respiratory failure improves clinically relevant outcomes remains unclear. We thus sought to assess the effect of high...
Citation: Critical Care 2021 25:58 -
Renal dysfunction improves risk stratification and may call for a change in the management of intermediate- and high-risk acute pulmonary embolism: results from a multicenter cohort study with external validation
Renal dysfunction influences outcomes after pulmonary embolism (PE). We aimed to determine the incremental value of adding renal dysfunction, defined by estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR), on top of t...
Citation: Critical Care 2021 25:57 -
Septic shock, noradrenaline requirements and alpha-2 agonists: Fishing in the right pond?
Citation: Critical Care 2021 25:56 -
Letter on “(1,3)-β-d-Glucan-based empirical antifungal interruption in suspected invasive candidiasis: a randomized trial”
Citation: Critical Care 2021 25:55 -
Characterization of esophageal motor activity, gastroesophageal reflux, and evaluation of prokinetic effectiveness in mechanically ventilated critically ill patients: a high-resolution impedance manometry study
Motility disorders of upper gastrointestinal tract are common in critical illness and associated with significant clinical consequences. However, detailed quantitative and qualitative analyses of esophageal mo...
Citation: Critical Care 2021 25:54 -
SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia—receptor binding and lung immunopathology: a narrative review
The current pandemic of COVID-19 caused thousands of deaths and healthcare professionals struggle to properly manage infected patients. This review summarizes information about SARS-CoV-2 receptor binding dyna...
Citation: Critical Care 2021 25:53 -
Static compliance of the respiratory system in COVID-19 related ARDS: an international multicenter study
Controversies exist on the nature of COVID-19 related acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) in particular on the static compliance of the respiratory system (Crs). We aimed to analyze the association of C...
Citation: Critical Care 2021 25:52 -
Carboxypeptidase B blocks ex vivo activation of the anaphylatoxin-neutrophil extracellular trap axis in neutrophils from COVID-19 patients
Thrombosis and coagulopathy are highly prevalent in critically ill patients with COVID-19 and increase the risk of death. Immunothrombosis has recently been demonstrated to contribute to the thrombotic events ...
Citation: Critical Care 2021 25:51
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