Abstract Background: Airway pressure release ventilation (APRV) is an alternative approach to the “open-lung” ventilation strategy and has recently emerged as an alternative ventilatory strategy
Abstract Purpose: To measure the degree of compliance of national guidelines for admission to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at San Juan City Hospital (SJCH).
Abstract Background: Water irrigation during transurethral resection of prostate (TURP) often caused hyponatremia, hypoosmolality, and decreasing of pH called TURP syndrome. Current standard fluid therapy
Abstract Objective: To determine the incidence of ventilator associated pneumonia (VAP) in the intensive care unit, and to characterize most common causative pathogens and resistance
Abstract Heparin has been available as a clinical treatment and prevention for thromboembolic disease for half a century. Known complications of heparin therapy include bleeding,
A 45 year-old Indonesian woman was hospitalized in ordinary ward with the complaints of fever, nonproductive cough, dyspnea during exertions and arthralgias since 2 weeks
A 26 year-old African-American lady was transferred to the intensive care unit (ICU) with severe hypovolemia. She had a two month history of recurrent fevers.