Impact of the First Wave of COVID-19 on the Number of General Anesthesia Cases in 34 Tertiary Hospitals in Japan: A Multicenter Retrospective Study by Tomonori Takazawa, Yuki Sugiyama, Yasuhiro Amano, Tetsuhito Hara, Eiki Kanemaru, Takao Kato, Takashi Kawano, Tsukasa Kochiyama, Tatsuya Tsuji, Shigeru Saito

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Regional Anaesthesia Is Associated with Shorter Postanaesthetic Care and Less Pain Than General Anaesthesia after Upper Extremity Surgery by Sven Grauman, Jakob Boethius, Joakim Johansson

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Not All Neonatal Encephalopathies Are due to Perinatal Hypoxia by Tushar Kulkarni, Lma Dsougi Hussein Mohamed, Mahmoud El Halik, Fatma Abdulla Mohammad Bastaki

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Fatal Septic Shock in a Patient with Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis Associated with an Infectious Mononucleosis by Giorgio Berlot, Ariella Tomasini, Lorenzo Zandonà, Eugenio Leonardo, Rossana Bussani, Nadia Zarrillo

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Fatal Idiopathic Hyperammonemia after Induction Chemotherapy for Acute Myeloid Leukemia by Christophe Angelo, Marie-Françoise Vincent, Mina Komuta, Philippe Hantson, Nicole Straetmans, Edwige Boulet

“…We report the case of a 40-year-old woman who developed fatal idiopathic hyperammonemia two weeks after induction chemotherapy with idarubicin-aracytine for acute myeloid leukemia. Despite intensive care management and extrarenal epuration, the patient was declared brain dead two days after hyperammonemia onset.…”
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Information Technology in Critical Care: Review of Monitoring and Data Acquisition Systems for Patient Care and Research by Michael A. De Georgia, Farhad Kaffashi, Frank J. Jacono, Kenneth A. Loparo

“…No area is more data intensive than the intensive care unit. While there have been major improvements in intensive care monitoring, the medical industry, for the most part, has not incorporated many of the advances in computer science, biomedical engineering, signal processing, and mathematics that many other industries have embraced. …”
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Boerhaave's Syndrome: Still a Diagnostic and Therapeutic Challenge in the 21st Century by J. Spapen, J. De Regt, K. Nieboer, G. Verfaillie, P. M. Honoré, H. Spapen

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LC-MS/MS Method for Simultaneous Quantification of Dexmedetomidine, Dezocine, and Midazolam in Rat Plasma and Its Application to Their Pharmacokinetic Study by Wenjuan Cui, Qin Liu, Shan Xiong, Lujun Qiao

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Ileocaecal Volvulus With an Intestinal Rotational Abnormality and Internal Hernia in a Paediatric Patient: A Case Report by Venla Soini, Matias Hilska, Marko Sallisalmi, Risto Juusela, Ella Virkki, Arimatias Raitio

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Single center experience with Hypotension Prediction Index (HPI) during cytoreductive surgery with Hyperthermic Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy (HIPEC) by Camilla L’Acqua, Luciano Frassanito, Shigeki Kusamura, Franco Valenza

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Corrigendum to “Relationship between Pain Behavior and Changes in KCNA2 Expression in the Dorsal Root Ganglia of Rats with Osteoarthritis” by Qihong Zhao, Lei Fan, Jiafeng Wang, Xiaoming Deng

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Role of Quetiapine in the Prevention of ICU Delirium in Elderly Patients at a High Risk by Kamel Walid Y., Kamel Heba Y., Elsherif Ibrahim M.

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Targeting protein kinase C-α prolongs survival and restores liver function in sepsis: Evidence from preclinical models by Ling Xiong, Dustin Beyer, Na Liu, Tina Lehmann, Sophie Neugebauer, Sascha Schaeuble, Oliver Sommerfeld, Philipp Ernst, Carl-Magnus Svensson, Sandor Nietzsche, Sebastian Scholl, Tony Bruns, Nikolaus Gaßler, Markus H. Gräler, Marc Thilo Figge, Gianni Panagiotou, Michael Bauer, Adrian T. Press

“…This suggests that targeting this protein could restore liver function without compromising the immune system, thereby decreasing sepsis mortality and supporting the recent paradigm that the liver is a hub for the host response to infection that might, in the future, result in novel host-directed therapies supporting the current state-of-the-art intensive care medicine in patients with sepsis-associated liver failure.…”
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Elevated D-dimer on admission may predict poor prognosis in childhood influenza associated encephalopathy by Huizhen Wang, Lingkong Zeng, Xingfeng Cheng, Hui Li, Hong Zhang, Yuanmei Shi, Yong Zhang, Changjian Li

“…Abstract To determine the risk factors for poor prognosis of influenza-associated encephalopathy (IAE), 56 eligible children with IAE who were treated in the pediatric intensive care unit of Wuhan Children’s Hospital from January 2022 to December 2023 were selected for retrospective analysis and grouped according to poor prognosis or not, and independent risk factors for poor prognosis were found by regression analysis. …”
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Thromboelastometry-Based Profiling of Haemostatic Alterations in Neonatal Sepsis by Causative Pathogens by Rozeta Sokou, Eleni A. Gounari, Konstantina A. Tsante, Aikaterini Konstantinidi, Maria Lampridou, Martha Theodoraki, Anastasios G. Kriebardis, Sotirios P. Fortis, Nicoletta Iacovidou, Andreas G. Tsantes

“…All participants were hospitalised in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). ROTEM parameters were compared between neonates with Gram-positive and Gram-negative infections. …”
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Ursodeoxycholic acid protects against sepsis-induced acute kidney injury by activating Nrf2/HO-1 and inhibiting NF-κB pathway by Yunpeng Lou, Hongguang Shi, Ning Sha, Feifei Li, Xiaofeng Gu, Huiyan Lin

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The Glucose/Potassium Ratio Exhibits a Predictive Role That is Both Earlier and More Efficacious Compared to The İnflammatory Response in The Context of Isolated Thoracic Trauma by Demet Acar, Emine Kadıoğlu, Nazlı Kenan, Emine Doğan, Asiye Müminat Çap, Yavuz Yılmaz

“…Following Tukey’s multiple comparisons, it was determined that the significant difference could be attributed to patients hospitalized in the intensive care unit. Conclusion: The findings of the study support the conclusion that individuals with an AIS 90 thoracic score above 3 and who need to be admitted to intensive care show higher GPR values than other groups. …”
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Survival Following Extreme Hypernatraemia Associated with Severe Dehydration and Undiagnosed Diabetes Mellitus by Hao Xiao, Rahul Barmanray, Sarah Qian, Dilantha De Alwis, Gerard Fennessy

“…He was treated with fluid and electrolyte replacement in the intensive care unit, and had returned to essentially normal function by hospital discharge. …”
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Meningococcal B Vaccination (4CMenB) in Infants and Toddlers by Susanna Esposito, Claudia Tagliabue, Samantha Bosis

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Reversible Akinetic Mutism after Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Haemorrhage in the Territory of the Anterior Cerebral Artery without Permanent Ischaemic Damage to Anterior Cingulate Gyri by François-Xavier Sibille, Philippe Hantson, Thierry Duprez, Vincent van Pesch, Simone Giglioli

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