Comparison of Computerized Tomography (CT) Scan, Clinical and Para-clinical Findings in Hospitalized Vaccinated and Unvaccinated COVID-19 Patients: A Pilot Study from Babol County by Hesamoddin Arabnozari, Farzin Sadeghi, Mohammadreza Tabatabaie, Ghazaleh Hosseininozari, Mana Baziboron, Masoumeh Bayani

“…Significant associations were found between the vaccinated and unvaccinated groups regarding hospital stay duration, oxygen saturation, intensive care unit admission, lactate dehydrogenase levels, and erythrocyte sedimentation rate index. …”
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The role of the neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio in predicting outcomes among patients with community-acquired pneumonia by Yogesh Sharma, Campbell Thompson, Angelo Zinellu, Rashmi Shahi, Chris Horwood, Arduino A. Mangoni

“…Multilevel-multivariable regression models, adjusting for age, sex, Charlson index, CURB-65 score, Hospital Frailty Risk Score (HFRS) and C-reactive protein (CRP), assessed outcomes including length of stay (LOS), intensive care unit (ICU) admission and in-hospital mortality. …”
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Assessing the use of the Index of Consciousness (IoC) as a monitoring tool for the sedative effects of ciprofol during general anesthesia induction: a prospective observational stu... by Yanhong Yu, Hao Wang, Liguo Wei, Yifan Gao, Nuo Yan, Jing Chu, Hong Li

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Clinical analysis of risk factors for diarrhea associated with enteral nutrition in post-craniocerebral surgery patients by Lei Zhang, Lulu Zhang, Xiaojie Zhu, Leiming Xu, Lin Zhu, Hai Zhou, Shengkai Yang

“…This study aims to identify the clinical risk factors for diarrhea in patients receiving EN after undergoing craniocerebral surgery.MethodsThe clinical data of patients hospitalized in the Department of Neurosurgery and Neurosurgical Intensive Care Unit of Binhai County People’s Hospital were retrospectively collected from January 2021 to December 2022. …”
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L-shaped association of body mass index with prognosis in individuals with sepsis: a multicenter cohort study by Kunping Cui, Xiangnan Teng, Wei liu, Xiaoxiao Zhao, Shanling Xu, Lang Bai

“…Methods This retrospective observational cohort study included adult patients admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) with sepsis from Medical Information Mart for Intensive Care-IV version 2.2 (MIMIC-IV V2.2) and eICU Collaborative Research Database (eICU-CRD). …”
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Impact of HACOR Score on Noninvasive Ventilation Failure in Non-COPD Patients with Acute-on-Chronic Respiratory Failure by Min Ding, Xiaoli Han, Linfu Bai, Shicong Huang, Jun Duan

“…This study was performed in the respiratory intensive care unit of a teaching hospital. Data had been collected prospectively between June 2011 and January 2019. …”
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Predictive value of trendelenburg position and carotid ultrasound for fluid responsiveness in patients on VV-ECMO with acute respiratory distress syndrome in the prone position by Junjie Zhao, Yong Sun, Jing Tang, Kai Guo, Jiancheng Zhuge, Honglong Fang

“…This prospective single-center study was conducted in a medical intensive care unit (ICU) and finally included 51 VV-ECMO patients with ARDS in the prone position (PP). …”
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Symptom network analysis of insomnia-depression-anxiety-stigma in tuberculosis patients by Xiangmin Liu, Xue Qiu, Huizhen Lan, LiuYue Diao, Wei Huang, Yan Wen, Mei Feng, Mei Feng, Xiangdong Tang

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The Impact of Effective Vaccination on Clinical and Radiological Involvement in COVID-19 Patients by Coskun DOGAN, Deniz BILICI, Burcu ARPINAR YIGITBAS, Omer ZENGIN, Orhan ZOR, Oguzhan AKMAN, Ilyas KOCABAG, Gonul Seven YALCIN, Esra ERTAN YAZAR

“…There was no statistically significant difference between the two groups in terms of transfer of patients to the intensive care unit (p>0.05). 11.3% (13/115) of the patients in the vaccinated group died, whereas 14% (14/100) died in the unvaccinated group. …”
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HDL proteome and apolipoproteins concentrations in severe ICU COVID-19 patients by Floran Begue, Bryan Veeren, Philippe Rondeau, Aline-Marie Florence, Simon Jamard, Philippe Montravers, Sébastien Tanaka, Olivier Meilhac, on behalf of French COVID Study Group

“…Methods Between February and April 2020, our study enrolled 37 COVID-19 patients upon their intensive care unit admission. Among them, 18 survived the disease, while 19 succumbed to it. …”
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Impact of invasive infections on clinical outcomes in acute pancreatitis: early predictive factors and implications for prophylactic anti-infective therapy by Fabienne Bender, Theresa König, Matthias Hecker, Moritz Fritzenwanker, Jacqueline Braun, Joern Pons-Kühnemann, Matthias Wolff, Andreas Hecker, Martin Reichert

“…GERM(+) patients demonstrated significantly worse clinical outcomes with higher rate of intensive care treatment (59.5% vs. 35.0%; p = 0.0011) and consecutive longer stay in intensive care unit (11.5 ± 25.2d vs. 3.0 ± 7.9d; p = 0.0007), longer in-hospital stay (26.8 ± 22.0d vs. 14.7 ± 15.0d; p = 0.0003) as well as worse results in the composite outcome length of in-hospital stay > 15d or death (67.6% vs. 31.7%; p < 0.0001). …”
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Changes in anaphylaxis trends and characteristics in emergency department admissions in Türkiye: From 2015 to 2021 based on the Ministry of Health database by Elif Soyak Aytekin, MD, Seda Şirin, MD, Esra Kıratlı Nalbant, MD, Naim Ata, MD, Ahmet Sertçelik, MD, Mustafa Mahir Ülgü, MD, Şuayip Birinci, MD, Koray Harmancı, MD, Zülfikar Akelma, MD

“…The frequency of intensive care unit (ICU) hospitalization increased 6.0-fold from 2015 to 2021, and age-adjusted average-weighted mortality rate for anaphylaxis was 0.66 per million. …”
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Enhancing collaborative clinical reasoning among multidisciplinary healthcare teams in a neurosurgery ICU: insights from video-reflexive ethnography by Ching-Yi Lee, Ching-Hsin Lee, Sze-Yuen Yau, Hung-Yi Lai, Po-Jui Chen, Mi-Mi Chen

“…This study focuses on enhancing collaborative clinical reasoning (CCR) among multidisciplinary healthcare teams in a neurosurgery intensive care unit (NICU) in Taiwan. The study utilizes video-reflexive ethnography (VRE) to examine the factors influencing CCR, the cognitive processes involved, and the efficacy of VRE in promoting CCR. …”
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Real-World Experience of Imipenem–Relebactam Treatment as Salvage Therapy in Difficult-to-Treat Pseudomonas aeruginosa Infections (IMRECOR Study) by Isabel Machuca, Arantxa Dominguez, Rosario Amaya, Cristina Arjona, Irene Gracia-Ahufinger, Maravillas Carralon, Rosa Giron, Isabel Gea, Natividad De Benito, Andres Martin, Fatima Galan, Jose Antonio Martinez, Rayden Iglesias, Jaume Revuelto, Juan Jose Caston, Angela Cano, Elisa Ruiz-Arabi, Luis Martínez-Martínez, Julian Torre-Cisneros

“…At the onset of infection, 71.4% (10/14) of patients were in the intensive care unit (ICU). All our patients had a Charlson Score of ≥ 3. …”
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“Unmasking the Uncommon”: A case series of multi-drug resistant Elizabethkingia meningoseptica causing late-onset sepsis and meningitis in preterm neonates [version 2; peer review:... by Anisha Maria Fernandes, Sinchana Bhat, Suchitra Shenoy M., Prajnha U.P.

“…Elizabethkingia meningoseptica is a significant cause of hospital-acquired infections, especially in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), leading to outbreaks. Clinicians must have a high degree of suspicion of E. meningoseptica for gram-negative bacilli causing sepsis and meningitis in high-risk patients. …”
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Glycemic Management of Patients with Hospital Hyperglycemia: A Retrospective Cohort Study on Adults Admitted in the Non-ICU Wards by Zheng R, Zeng X, Shen R, Wang Y, Liu J, Zhang M

“…Ruoxuan Zheng,1,2 Xiangman Zeng,1 Ruiting Shen,1 Yueqiu Wang,1 Jing Liu,1,3 Mingchen Zhang1 1Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Ningbo No.2 hospital, Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, People’s Republic of China; 2School of Medicine, Ningbo University, Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, People’s Republic of China; 3Cixi Biomedical Research Institute, Wenzhou Medical University, Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, People’s Republic of ChinaCorrespondence: Mingchen Zhang, Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Ningbo No.2 hospital, Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, People’s Republic of China, Email zhangmc1015@163.comPurpose: To identify the key populations for Hospital Hyperglycemia (HH) management and to assess recent trends in the management of HH.Patients and Methods: This retrospective study analyzed 1,136,092 point-of-care blood glucose (POC-BG) measurements from 40,758 patients with HH in non-intensive care unit (non-ICU) wards at Ningbo No.2 hospital from January 2020 to December 2022. …”
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Risk factors for fear of falling in stroke patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Li Ma, Qi Xie, Juhong Pei, Ling Gou, Yabin Zhang, Juanping Zhong, Yujie Su, Xinglei Wang, Xinman Dou

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The Influence of Heavy Metals and Trace Elements on Comatose Patients with Severe Traumatic Brain Injury in the First Week of Admission by Bahia Belatar, Abdallah Elabidi, Malika Barkiyou, Mamoun El Faroudi, Rachid Eljaoudi, Laila Lahlou, Saad Kabbaj, Wajdi Maazouzi

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Selected Biomarkers Correlate with the Origin and Severity of Sepsis by Michal Holub, Olga Džupová, Michaela Růžková, Alžběta Stráníková, Eva Bartáková, Jan Máca, Jiří Beneš, Heiko Herwald, Ondřej Beran

“…Therefore, the plasma levels of cytokines (IL-6, IL-8, and IL-10), chemokines (CCL2/MCP-1, MIP-1β), heparin-binding protein (HBP), soluble CD14 (sCD14), and cortisol were analyzed in blood from septic patients obtained during the first 96 hours of intensive care unit hospitalization. The etiology was established in 56 out of a total of 62 patients enrolled in the study. …”
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Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices of ICU Medical Staff toward Nutrition Care and its Impact on Patient Recovery in Taiz, Yemen by Haitham T. S. Mohammed, Lamia A. S. Ali, Malak Anwar Saif, Nada Khalid Al-Adeemy, Noha Kamel Al-Nadhary, Raghad Sameer Saif, Shaima Kamel Al-Nadhary, Yomna Mukarram Al-Dobai, Nur Mufida Wulan Sari

“…Objectives: The study aimed to determine the nutritional Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice (KAP) of medical staff in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) in ninth selected hospitals in Taiz City. …”
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