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Cynthia Ocegueda-Pacheco

Severe abdominal pain in a Jehovah’s Witness patient

Case presentation A 76-year-old lady, with past medical history of hypertension, presented to the hospital with complains of severe…
AbstractBackground/objective: Procalcitonin (PCT) is a biomarker widely used to identify bacterial infections, diagnostic tool for sepsis, monitor response to…
In the last 50 years, medicine in intensive care units has focused in improving quality and safety processes involved…
Abstract Therapeutic hypothermia is the latest, revolutionary therapy, mostly used in intensive care units after out-of-hospital, and sometimes in-hospital,…
The use of therapeutic hypothermia (TH) in critical care medicine is no longer a rarity. (1-3) This technique is…