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Paul E. Marik

Treatment of COVID-19 is critically phase specific

A number of beneficial (corticosteroids and remdesivir), and potentially beneficial therapies, exist for the treatment of COVID-19. What is…
Abstract Background: Current belief suggests that patients receiving corticosteroids have an increased risk of bleeding from stress ulceration and…
Abstract Aspiration pneumonitis is a neutrophil mediated inflammatory pneumonitis following the aspiration of regurgitated gastric contents. This syndrome occurs…
A variety of intensive care units (ICU) staffing models exist, which to a large extent are based on local…
In his State of the Union address before both chambers of the US Congress on 20 January 2015, President…
The ENOS trial investigators performed a large multicenter trial investigating the role of a daily nitroglycerine patch in hypertensive…
Abstract The obesity supine death syndrome (OSDS) is a disease characterized by sudden cardiac arrest in the morbidly obese…
Abstract Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (PRES) is a clinical-neuroradiological entity characterized by headache, vomiting, altered mental status, blurred vision…
Abstract We describe a patient with lobar atelectasis who was successfully treated with airway pressure release ventilation (APRV) after…
Abstract Background: Airway pressure release ventilation (APRV) is an alternative approach to the “open-lung” ventilation strategy and has recently…