A number of beneficial (corticosteroids and remdesivir), and potentially beneficial therapies, exist for the treatment of COVID-19. What is not widely appreciated is that patients
Abstract Background: Current belief suggests that patients receiving corticosteroids have an increased risk of bleeding from stress ulceration and that these patients should receive stress
Abstract Aspiration pneumonitis is a neutrophil mediated inflammatory pneumonitis following the aspiration of regurgitated gastric contents. This syndrome occurs most commonly in patients with depressed
A variety of intensive care units (ICU) staffing models exist, which to a large extent are based on local practice and economic factors rather than
In his State of the Union address before both chambers of the US Congress on 20 January 2015, President Barack Obama announced the launch of
The ENOS trial investigators performed a large multicenter trial investigating the role of a daily nitroglycerine patch in hypertensive patients with an acute stroke. (1)
Abstract The obesity supine death syndrome (OSDS) is a disease characterized by sudden cardiac arrest in the morbidly obese patient. We present the case of
Abstract Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (PRES) is a clinical-neuroradiological entity characterized by headache, vomiting, altered mental status, blurred vision and seizures as well as images
Abstract We describe a patient with lobar atelectasis who was successfully treated with airway pressure release ventilation (APRV) after failed attempts at recruitment with endotracheal
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