Published in Annals of Intensive Care
BackgroundSystemic rheumatic diseases (SRDs) are a group of inflammatory disorders that can require intensive care unit (ICU) admission because of multiorgan involvement with end-organ failure(s). Critically ill SRD patients requiring extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) were studied to gain insight into their characteristics and outcomes.Met...
Published in Neurosurgical review
Intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) is a devastating complication in patients treated with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) due to respiratory or cardiac issues. Neurosurgical evaluation and management of such cases has only insufficiently been studied. We conducted a retrospective, cohort study of adult patients treated with ECMO between Janu...
Published in Journal of Cardiology Cases
Transportation of patients with coronavirus disease (COVID)-19 outside isolation rooms should be avoided to prevent further spread of the disease. Here, we report a safe and accurate bedside cannulation method for veno-venous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (VV-ECMO) in a COVID-19 patient in the intensive care unit. A 71-year-old man was admitt...
Published in International Journal of Emergency Medicine
Background Tuberculosis (TB) is a chronic infectious disease, common in China. TB bacteria can invade multiple organs throughout the body, but they rarely cause critical illness. We present a complex critically ill case in this report. Case presentation A 40-year-old man suffered sudden cardiac arrest during an emergency room visit. Spontaneous cir...
Published in Journal of Thrombosis and Thrombolysis
Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) is used for patients with cardiopulmonary failure and is associated with severe bleeding and poor outcome. Platelet dysfunction may be a contributing factor. The aim of this prospective observational study was to characterize platelet dysfunction and its relation to outcome in ECMO patients. Blood was samp...
Published in Intensive Care Medicine
Rates of survival with functional recovery for both in-hospital and out-of-hospital cardiac arrest are notably low. Extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation (ECPR) is emerging as a modality to improve prognosis by augmenting perfusion to vital end-organs by utilizing extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) during conventional CPR and stabili...
Published in World Journal of Critical Care Medicine
BACKGROUND Panton-Valentine leukocidin (PVL) is an exotoxin secreted by Staphylococcus aureus ( S. aureus ), responsible for skin and soft tissue infections. As a cause of severe necrotising pneumonia, it is associated with a high mortality rate. A rare entity, the epidemiology of PVL S. aureus (PVL -SA ) pneumonia as a complication of influenza co...
Published in Pediatric Surgery International
Purpose Predicting lethal pulmonary hypoplasia in infants with congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH) before extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) initiation is difficult. This study aimed to predict lethal pulmonary hypoplasia in patients with CDH prior to ECMO. Methods This was a multicenter cohort study involving neonates prenatally diagnose...
Published in IDCases
Coronavirus 2019 (referred to as COVID-19) has infected millions of people throughout the world. This paper reports on a case of COVID-19-induced acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) in which the patient was administered extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) to deal with refractory hypoxia. The patient recovered from ARDS following ECMO ...
Published in Journal of artificial organs : the official journal of the Japanese Society for Artificial Organs
In patients experiencing electrical storm, intensive care using extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) is an efficient treatment to overcome a hemodynamically unstable condition. The aim of this study was to examine the utility of ECMO in patients with circulatory collapse by electrical storm. We retrospectively examined 17 consecutive patients...
