Cardiogenic shock (CS) is a critical clinical syndrome characterized by inadequate tissue perfusion and oxygen delivery resulting from severe heart dysfunction, leading to multi-organ failure [1]. Diagnostic criteria include hypoperfusion and hypotension, with reduced cardiac index and/or elevated left ...
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Royal College of Anaesthestists 2009 Intensive care medicine, also referred to as critical care medicine, is that body of specialist knowledge and practice concerned with the treatment of patients with, at risk of, or recovering from potentially life-threatening failure of one or more of the body...
Intensive Care Unit, abbreviated as ICU. Patients usually treated in the ICU are at a higher risk and require 24-hour monitoring of their vital signs. The ICU for coronary heart disease is the coronary heart disease intensive care unit, abbreviated as CCU. CCU aims to treat patients with sev...
“Our clinic population is changing. […] Overall there’s far fewer post-ICU patients with ECMO [extra-corporeal membrane oxygenation] issues and far more long covid from the community, and this is the bit our clinic isn’t doing so well on. We’re doing great on breathing pattern disor...
In this context, identifying the predictors of poorer outcomes becomes essential to enable the provision of ECMO support to patients who are most likely to benefit. In this issue of The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, Alexandre Tran and colleagues2 reported the results of a systematic review and meta...
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"In China, some patients eventually needed to be on [an ECMO life-support machine], to temporarily support the patients while they regain lung function," he said. "However, some of them [may] never regain lung function." According to a study published in the Journal ...
According to a letter published in the New England Journal of Medicine on Dec. 31, the teen was out of intensive care and breathing on her own after spending 12 days connected to ECMO, or extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, an aggressive form of life-support that pumps blood out of the bod...
49 Therefore, decisions about the use of corticosteroids for fetal lung maturity should be made in consultation with infectious disease specialists and maternal-fetal medicine consultants. All guidance should be considered subject to revision as additional data on pregnant women with COVID-19 become ...