COVID-19 Mortality in Children: A Referral Center Experience from Iran (Mofid Children’s Hospital, Tehran, Iran) by Shahnaz Armin, Seyed Alireza Fahimzad, Sedigheh Rafiei Tabatabaei, Roxana Mansour Ghanaiee, Noushin Marhamati, Seyyedeh Narjes Ahmadizadeh, Azita Behzad, Seyedeh Masumeh Hashemi, Saeed Sadr, Maryam Rajabnejad, Mahnaz Jamee, Abdollah Karimi

“…Recorded documents of 59 pediatric patients (under 18 years old) assumed to have COVID-19 who had died in the COVID-19 ward and COVID-19 intensive care unit (ICU) were retrospectively evaluated. …”
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Prevalence, causes and outcomes of hospital admissions in Mongolia: a national registry-based descriptive analysisResearch in context by Altanchimeg Sainbayar, Ganbold Lundeg, Naranpurev Mendsaikhan, Jens Meier, Martin W. Dünser

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Sleep duration, chronotype, health and lifestyle factors affect cognition: a UK Biobank cross-sectional study by Daqing Ma, Raha West, Zhigang Liu, Ji-Eun Park, Ryan Tak Chun Wong, Si Woo Lee, Dinayinie Ekanayake Mudiyanselage

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The association between controlling nutritional status and postoperative pulmonary complications in patients with colorectal cancer by Yafang Li, Chuang Nie, Na Li, Jieying Liang, Ning Su, Chunhua Yang

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Neutrophil elastase inhibitor (Sivelestat) in the treatment of acute respiratory distress syndrome induced by COVID-19: a multicenter retrospective cohort study by Yuting Li, Jianjun Zhao, Jiahui Wei, Yanhong Zhang, Haitao Zhang, Ying Li, Ting Liao, Yang Hu, Bo Yuan, Xinmei Zhang, Wanyan Liu, Changgang Liu, Qingsong Cui, Shunzi Wu, Hongmei Jiang, Wenge Liu, Weiheng Liu, Hongguang Xu, Gang Li, Yuyan Cai, Liting Chen, Bingwei Chen, Dong Zhang

“…Methods A large multicentre cohort study of patients with ARDS induced by COVID-19 who had been admitted to intensive care units (ICUs). We used propensity score matching to compare the outcomes of patients treated with sivelestat to those who were not. …”
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Effectiveness–implementation hybrid-2 randomised trial of a collaborative Shared Care Model for Detecting Neurodevelopmental Impairments after Critical Illness in Young Children (D... by Paula Lister, Kristen Gibbons, Zephanie Tyack, Luregn J Schlapbach, Samudragupta Bora, Maria Isabel Castillo, James Best, Debbie Long, Helen G Liley, Belinda Dow, Kerri-Lyn Webb, Christian Stocker, Debra Thoms, Carolyn Wharton, Lori Matuschka

“…Introduction In Australia, while paediatric intensive care unit (PICU) mortality has dropped to 2.2%, one in three survivors experience long-term neurodevelopmental impairment, limiting their life-course opportunities. …”
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Mitochondrial oxygen metabolism as a potential predictor of weight loss after laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy for class III obesity by Markus Engelmann, Markus Engelmann, Juliane Götze, Juliane Götze, Philipp Baumbach, Philipp Baumbach, Charles Neu, Charles Neu, Utz Settmacher, Michael Ardelt, Hermann Kissler, Sina M. Coldewey, Sina M. Coldewey

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Critical reflection on the indication for computed tomography: an interdisciplinary survey of risk and benefit management in patients with sepsis by Maria Isabel Opper Hernando, Denis Witham, Ann-Christine Stahl, Peter Richard Steinhagen, Stefan Angermair, Wolfgang Bauer, Friederike Compton, Andreas Edel, Jan Matthias Kruse, York Kühnle, Gunnar Lachmann, Susanne Marz, Holger Müller-Redetzky, Jens Nee, Oliver Paul, Damaris Praeger, Carsten Skurk, Miriam Stegemann, Alexander Uhrig, Stefan Wolf, Myrto Bolanaki, Kerstin Rubarth, Joachim Seybold, Elke Zimmermann, Marc Dewey, Julian Pohlan

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Pneumonia, an Unusual Initial Presentation of Neonatal Herpes Infection by Franck Kouadio, Gil Klinger

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One year work experience in a municipal Intensive Therapy Unit. by Alba Enseñat Alvarez, Rubén Bembibre Taboada, Julio Jova Dueñas, Angel Luis Valladares Delgado, José Roque Nodal, Luis Orlando Iturralde González

“…<strong>Background:</strong> The Municipal Intensive Care Units were created in the year 2004, to better the urgency attention in the primary health level. …”
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Huge Interatrial Septal Aneurysm: A Coincidental but Rather Fatal Finding by Petros Tzimas, Georgios Papadopoulos

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Use of Thromboelastogram in Venovenous Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation for a Patient with Pulmonary Hemorrhage due to Microscopic Polyangiitis by Chak-Kwan Tong, Jun Jin, Qian Du

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Venovenous Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation as a Treatment for Obesity Hypoventilation Syndrome by Nao Umei, Shingo Ichiba

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Post-colectomy enteritis—a rare complication in a patient with ulcerative colitis by Julia Wanzl, Sandra Nagl, Alanna Ebigbo, Lena Anthuber, Florian Sommer, Michael Hoffmann, David Rafael Marques Pinto, Dmytro Vlasenko, Irene Kleinlein, Elisabeth Schnoy

“…The patient recovered fully and was discharged after prolonged recovery and long-term intensive care therapy.…”
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Influence of ionic and non-ionic radiographic contrast media on leukocyte adhesion molecules by Guy L. J. Vermeiren, Roel Willems, Marc J. Claeys, Chris Vrints, Herman Slegers, Philippe G. Jorens

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Healthcare in the era of climate change and the need for environmental sustainability by Nicholas Chin Hock Tee, Jo-Anne Yeo, Mahesh Choolani, Kian Keong Poh, Tiing Leong Ang

“…This article summarises the available literature on the impact of healthcare on climate change and efforts in mitigation, focusing on the intrinsic differences and similarities across the operating theatre complex, intensive care unit and gastrointestinal endoscopy unit. …”
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Therapeutic plasma exchange accelerates immune cell recovery in severe COVID-19 by Aurelie Guironnet-Paquet, Aurelie Guironnet-Paquet, Hind Hamzeh-Cognasse, Frederic Berard, Fabrice Cognasse, Fabrice Cognasse, Jean Christophe Richard, Hodane Yonis, Mehdi Mezidi, Olivier Desebbe, Bertrand Delannoy, Sophie Demeret, Clemence Marois, Clemence Marois, Clemence Marois, Samir Saheb, Quoc Viet Le, Mathieu Schoeffler, Paul Simon Pugliesi, Sophie Debord, Paul Bastard, Paul Bastard, Paul Bastard, Paul Bastard, Aurélie Cobat, Aurélie Cobat, Aurélie Cobat, Jean Laurent Casanova, Jean Laurent Casanova, Jean Laurent Casanova, Jean Laurent Casanova, Jean Laurent Casanova, Rémi Pescarmona, Sébastien Viel, Jean François Nicolas, Jean François Nicolas, Audrey Nosbaum, Audrey Nosbaum, Marc Vocanson, Olivier Hequet, Olivier Hequet

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The Impact of Hyperoxia on Outcome of Patients Treated with Noninvasive Respiratory Support by Seyhan Pala Cifci, Yasemin Urcan Tapan, Bengu Turemis Erkul, Yusuf Savran, Bilgin Comert

“…One hundred and eighty-seven patients who met inclusion criteria, treated in Dokuz Eylul University Medical Intensive Care Unit between January 1, 2016, and October 31, 2018, were examined retrospectively. …”
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sB7H3 in Children with Acute Appendicitis: Its Diagnostic Value and Association with Histological Findings by Xiaochen Du, Yan Chen, Jie Zhu, Zhenjiang Bai, Jun Hua, Ying Li, Haitao Lv, Guangbo Zhang

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The carbon footprint and energy consumption of liver transplantation by Paolo De Simone, Paolo De Simone, Quirino Lai, Juri Ducci, Daniela Campani, Daniela Campani, Giandomenico Biancofiore, Giandomenico Biancofiore

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