“I have beard permission for all the patients!”
Published in Journal of Critical Care
Critical care capacity during the COVID-19 pandemic: Global availability of intensive care beds
Published in Journal of Critical Care
Safe bronchodilator treatment in mechanically ventilated COVID-19 patients: A single center experience
Published in Journal of Critical Care
Clinical presentation and initial management critically ill patients with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus ...
...Published in Journal of Critical Care
• COVID-19 is a global pandemic that has recently devastated Italy • Hospitals in Italy have experience strain on resources and used non-intensivists to manage critically ill patients. • Investigators created a severity scale for communicating with non-intensivist for triage and management • Hospitals should consider adapting or revising a severity...
Poor survival with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) due to coronavirus ...
Published in Journal of Critical Care
Noninvasive ventilation support during fiberoptic bronchoscopy-guided nasotracheal intubation effectively prevents sever...
...Published in Journal of Critical Care
• Our study is the first to evaluate NIV during FOB-guided nasotracheal intubation. • NIV support during FOB-guided nasotracheal intubation was effectively prevented severe desaturation during intubation. • We used a specially-designed intubation face mask to ensure that there was no interruption of NIV support during intubation.
Safety of antimicrobial de-escalation for culture-negative severe pneumonia.
Published in Journal of critical care
This study investigated the outcomes of antimicrobial de-escalation (ADE) based on mortality and the incidence of multi-drug resistant (MDR) pathogen occurrence in patients with culture-negative pneumonia presenting with sepsis and septic shock. We retrospectively analyzed patients diagnosed with severe pneumonia requiring intensive care unit (ICU)...
Influenza virus and factors that are associated with ICU admission, pulmonary co-infections and ICU mortality.
Published in Journal of critical care
While most influenza patients have a self-limited respiratory illness, 5-10% of hospitalized patients develop severe disease requiring ICU admission. The aim of this study was to identify influenza-specific factors associated with ICU admission and mortality. Furthermore, influenza-specific pulmonary bacterial, fungal and viral co-infections were i...
Severe acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) induced by human adenovirus B21: Report on 2 cases and literature revi...
Published in Journal of Critical Care
Severe pneumonia and ARDS caused by human adenovirus B21 infections (HAdV-B21) is a rare, but a devastating disease with rapid progression to multiorgan failure and death. However, only a few cases were reported so far. Infections appear associated with increased disease severity and higher mortality in infected critically ill patients. Possible fa...
Contemporary management of severe influenza disease in the intensive care unit.
Published in Journal of critical care
Despite continued efforts to optimize vaccination composition, severe influenza disease requiring intensive care unit (ICU) admission remains a clinical issue. Influenza epidemics and pandemics worldwide continue to challenge clinicians with managing infected patients requiring ICU care. While routine use of antiviral therapy is deployed in ambulat...
