Case report Fatal hyperthermia following acute cervical spinal cord and head injury Jun-ichi Hirata, Munehiko Ohya, Keiji Kumon Abstract A 22-year-old man with schizophrenia presented with cervical spine damage caused by a crush injury. Upon admission, we…
Case report Pseudo hydropneumothorax: The importance of history taking in critical care Siva Padmanabhan Sivakumar, Sivakumar Sudhakaran, Saherish Surani, Salim Surani Abstract History taking is an important part of the diagnosis of every patient. With the advancement of technology and…
Case report Therapeutic hypothermia in cardiogenic shock post cardiac arrest supported with left ventricular assist device (Impella 5.0 LP) Laura Domínguez Pérez, Mark Liszkowski, Ying Tung Sia Abstract We report a 48-year-old male suffering from cardiac arrest secondary to ventricular fibrillation. After the return of spontaneous…
Case report Toxic epidermal necrolysis Vivekanand, Pradeep Rangappa, Ipe Jacob The case A 36-year-old lady presented with history of intermittent high-grade fever for the last 5 days. There was…
Original The obesity supine sudden death syndrome in the perioperative patient Raul Mercado Garcia, Paul E. Marik, Joseph Varon Abstract The obesity supine death syndrome (OSDS) is a disease characterized by sudden cardiac arrest in the morbidly obese…