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Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) which is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in the intensive care unit, is characterized by decreased lung volume, decreased lung compliance, increased pulmonary vascular resistance and pulmonary hypertension, which ultimately lead to right
Background In 2016 the Danish Emergency Medical Services (EMS) introduced a nationwide electronic medical reporting system. This provided new possibilities for exploring many of the aspects surrounding the daily practice the EMS, including information on selective subgroups of cardiac arrest
Low cardiac output syndrome (LCOS) is defined, by the Working Group of Cardiac Intensive Care of the Spanish Society of Intensive, Critical Medicine and Coronary Units, as a cardiac index (CI) <2.2 l / min / m2. LCOS is due to left and/or right ventricular failure and may be associated with
Introduction:
Ovarian cancer accounts for 2.5 percent of cancers in women. In Sweden, a total of 694 new cases of ovarian and fallopian tube cancers were reported in 2012. During the period 2005-2009, the relative 1-year survival for all ovarian cancers was 81.8% but 5-year survival was only 44%
Introduction:
Trauma-related injuries claimed approximately 5 million lives in the world in 2016; is one of the leading causes of death among people in different age groups depending upon the causes of injuries (WHO, 2018a). More than quarters (29%) of these deaths were due to a road traffic
This is a prospective, randomized study and will be performed on patients who accept coronary artery bypass grafting with cardiopulmonary bypass, the conscious openness to participate in the study. Age, sex, body mass index (BMI), smoking habits, diagnosis, additional diseases, drugs used, surgery,
TTTS, which complicates 10-15% of MCDA twin pregnancies, is characterized by a net imbalance of volume between twins, mediated through abnormal placental blood vessel anastomoses that connect the two placental circulations. Clinically, the "donor" twin develops features of anemia and hypovolemia,
Early Goal Directed Therapy using a Physiological Holistic View. A multicenter study in Latin America: The ANDROMEDA-SHOCK Study
Hypothesis Peripheral perfusion guided resuscitation in septic shock is associated with lower mortality, less organ dysfunctions, less mechanical ventilation (MV), less
Fluid therapy is aimed to compensate for fasting which is required for surgery, to meet the ongoing fluid losses and to maintain electrolyte balance during surgery. Fluid deficit of a healthy child who is not fed parenterally may be estimated by multiplying hourly maintenance requirement for fluid
I. SUBJECT ENROLLMENT
1. Methods of enrollment, including procedures for patient registration. Patients will be screened in the "Cardiac surgery pre-operative clinic", Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Cox building floor 6 (before surgery). If the patient is eligible and after obtaining the
Numerous factors are known to contribute to post-traumatic morbidity and mortality. Acute blood loss, hypovolemia, and systemic inflammatory response syndrome can often develop following severe traumatic injury and are, frequently, further exacerbated by the presence of pre-existing health