Review Acid-Base Disturbance Analysis: Comparison of the Traditional and Stewart Approaches Hari Kushartono, Antonius H. Pudjiadi, Susetyo Harry Purwanto, Imral Chair, Darlan Darwis, Abdul Latief Abstract Introduction: The new approach to acid-base balance which initially proposed by Stewart in 1978 was success to provide…
Case report Significantly Raised Brain Natriuretic Peptide in a Young Patient with Dengue Fever without Heart and Renal Failure Ashish A. Sule, Dessmon YH Tai, Koh N Yue, Veerendra Chadachan, Kenneth Ng Objective: This is the fi rst case report of association of raised brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) in patients with…
Case report Unilateral Diaphragmatic Pacing: An Innovative Solution for Unilateral Diaphragmatic Paralysis Salim R. Surani, Atif Afzal, Eva Elizabeth Ayala, Joseph Varon Mechanical ventilation has always been a cornerstone of respiratory support for patients with respiratory muscle paralysis. In selected patients,…
Review Extra-Pulmonary Sarcoidosis: Neurosarcoidosis – Case Presentation and Literature Review Antonio DeGorordo, Pula P. Thaddeus, Mohammad Oreizi-Esfahani, Joseph Varon More than a century after the description of sarcoidosis, the disease remains not well understood. Sarcoidosis is an infl…
Review Non Infectious Pulmonary Complications after Bone Marrow Transplant with a Special Focus on Idiopathic Pneumonia Syndrome Tuhina Raman Pulmonary complications are a signifi cant cause of early mortality (up to 100 days) after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation…
Original Pro- and Anti-Infl ammatory Balance of Septic Patients is Associated with Severity and Outcome Alberto Dougnac, Ricardo Castro, Arnoldo Riquelme, Mario Calvo, Eliseo Eugenin, Marco Arellano, Alejandro Pattillo, Tomas Regueira, Marcelo Mercado, Max Andresen Purpose: To study infl ammatory profile in patients with sepsis, severe sepsis and septic shock with regards to organ…
Original Use and Understanding of Therapeutic Hypothermia in Developing Countries Joseph Varon, Guillermina Cruz, Pilar Acosta, Ana Laura Huerta-Alardin, Robert E. Fromm Purpose: The use of therapeutic hypothermia (TH) has increased in the treatment of comatose victims of cardiac arrest, traumatic…