Padmanaban, Ajay Venkataraman, Ramesh Rajagopal, Senthilkumar Devaprasad, Dedeepiya Ramakrishnan, Nagarajan
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The Journal of Critical Care Medicine
Background Vasopressors are conventionally administered through a central venous catheter (CVC) and not through a peripheral venous catheter (PVC) since the latter is believed to be associated with increased risk of extravasation. Placement of a CVC requires suitably trained personnel to be on hand, and in resource-limited settings, this requiremen...
Chia, Pamela Chuan Poh, Lim Ong, John Ong, Sharon
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The Journal of Critical Care Medicine
Introduction Quetiapine is commonly used in intensive care units (ICU) to treat delirium. Cardiopulmonary arrest caused by low dose quetiapine is unreported. Only two cases in the literature have reported acute respiratory failure after single doses of 50mg and 100mg respectively. We report a case of cardiopulmonary arrest in a patient after the ad...
Wolf, Molly Richards, Jeremy
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The Journal of Critical Care Medicine
A case is described of a 29-year-old female who presented with acute hypoxic respiratory failure due to acute eosinophilic pneumonia, associated with the use of electronic cigarettes to vape tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), together with the contemporary clinical understanding of the syndrome of electronic-cigarette associated lung injury (EVALI). Atten...
Kovacs, Judit
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The Journal of Critical Care Medicine
Fitzgerald, Amelia Lucy Vachharajani, Hemal Hitesh Davidson, Benjamin Paul Kruit, Natalie Joanne Eslick, Adam Trevor
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The Journal of Critical Care Medicine
COVID-19 has resulted in unprecedented global health and economic challenges. The reported mortality in patients with COVID-19 requiring mechanical ventilation is high. VV ECMO may serve as a lifesaving rescue therapy for a minority of patients with COVID-19; however, its impact on overall survival of these patients is unknown. To date, few reports...
Lowery, Megan M. Taimur Malik, Muhammad Seemiller, Joseph Tsai, Cynthia S.
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The Journal of Critical Care Medicine
Objective A rare variant Miller Fisher Syndrome overlap with Guillain Barre Syndrome is described in an adult patient with SARS-COV-2 infection. Case Presentation The clinical course of a 45-year-old immunosuppressed man is summarized as a patient who developed ataxia, ophthalmoplegia, and areflexia after upper respiratory infection symptoms began....
Merlo, Enrico Grutta, Giuseppe Tiberio, Ivo Martelli, Gabriele
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The Journal of Critical Care Medicine
Introduction Right heart thrombus (RiHTh) can be considered a rare and severe condition associated with thromboembolic phenomena. A case is described of a COVID-19 patient presenting with an isolated thrombus in the right ventricle. Case presentation An 80-years-old Caucasian male was admitted in an intensive care unit (ICU) for COVID-19 related ac...
Toth, Réka Grama, Alina Maki, Cristina Chinceșan, Mihaela Ioana
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The Journal of Critical Care Medicine
Introduction In acute myeloblastic leukaemia (AML) explosive proliferation and accumulation of immature myeloid cell clones take place, replacing the bone marrow, with the possibility of the formation of extramedullary tumour masses composed of myeloid cells. The onset of the disease less frequently consists of symptoms of extramedullary manifestat...
Tiwari, Nishant R Khatib, Khalid I Dixit, Subhal B Rathore, Prajay K Melinkeri, Sameer Ganapule, Abhijeet Borawake, Kapil S Mhatre, Ujwala
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The Journal of Critical Care Medicine
The novel coronavirus disease, 2019 (COVID – 19) evolved as an unprecedented pandemic. The severe acute respiratory syndrome-corona virus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection has been associated with significantly deranged coagulation parameters and increased incidence of thrombotic events. Deranged coagulation parameters, such as D-dimers and fibrin degradati...
Tiglis, Mirela Hurmuzache, Tudor Bologa, Cristina Neagu, Tiberiu Paul Mirea, Liliana Grintescu, Ioana Marina
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The Journal of Critical Care Medicine
Nowadays, schizophrenia is treated with atypical antipsychotics that can determine neuroleptic malignant syndrome or rhabdomyolysis appearance. In addition to trauma and muscular hypoxia, there are some drugs and toxins associated with rhabdomyolysis development, among which olanzapine. A case of severe rhabdomyolysis syndrome, with extremely high ...
