Candida Endocarditis in a Hemodialysis Patient by Kishalay Mahajan, Pratik Tripathi, Gaurav Kumar Khandelwal, Shaurya Mehta, Manna Bhattacharjee

“…Case Presentation: A patient with chronic kidney disease was admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) after experiencing fever with shortness of breath for last 15days and swelling of whole body for 1 week. …”
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Acute Kidney Injury in Diabetes Mellitus by D. Patschan, G. A. Müller

“…Aim of this article is to summarize AKI epidemiology and outcomes in DM and current recommendations on blood glucose control in the intensive care unit with regard to the risk for acquiring AKI, and finally several aspects related to postischemic microvasculopathy in AKI of diabetic patients shall be discussed. …”
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Immune Response in Severe Infection: Could Life-Saving Drugs Be Potentially Harmful? by Maja Surbatovic, Jasna Jevdjic, Milic Veljovic, Nada Popovic, Dragan Djordjevic, Sonja Radakovic

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Clostridium difficile-associated disease in versatile hospital patient population and risk factors for its development by Ya. N. Yarushina, G. B. Kolotova, V. A. Rudnov, V. A. Bagin

“…Following risk factors for C. difficile-associated diarrhea were determined: age over 65 years, presence of several associated diseases (Charlson score >2), chronic renal failure that require hemodialysis, anemia, admission to intensive care unit and surgical departments, surgical treatment, PPI administration for over 7 days, more than one course of antibiotic treatment and duration of antibacterial therapy for more than 5 days, administration of 3rd generation cephalosporins.…”
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Comparative Analysis of 95 Patients with Different Severity in the Early Outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China by Fang He, Xue-feng Ding, Meng Cao, Hai-ying Gong, Xiang-zhen Fu, Jie Luo, Kui Liu, Zhou-zhou Tian, Lin Luo, Yu-yuan Fan, Ting Li, Qian-Jing Yao, Xiao-ju Chen, Xiang-lin Duan, Li Chen, Li Jiang

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Ten Machine Learning Models for Predicting Preoperative and Postoperative Coagulopathy in Patients With Trauma: Multicenter Cohort Study by Xiaojuan Xiong, Hong Fu, Bo Xu, Wang Wei, Mi Zhou, Peng Hu, Yunqin Ren, Qingxiang Mao

“…Data from 10,023 Medical Information Mart for Intensive Care patients were divided into training (70%) and test (30%) sets, with 3212 patients from 3 other centers used for external validation. …”
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Noninvasive oxygenation and ventilation strategies for viral acute respiratory failure: a comprehensive systematic review and meta-analysis by Fredy Leonardo Carreño-Hernández, Sergio Prieto, Daniela Abondando, Jairo Alejandro Gaitán, Yenny Rocío Cárdenas -Bolívar, Adriana Beltrán, Jorge Iván Alvarado-Sánchez, Joseph L. Nates

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Optimization of the management of pregnant women with new COVID-19 coronavirus infection: An open prospective cross-sectional study by Irina V. Medyannikova, Yuliya Ch. Kuklis, Irina V. Saveljeva, Galina B. Beznoshchenko, Elena G. Galyanskaya, Olga Yu. Tsygankova, Galina V. Krivchik, Elena A. Bukharova, Natalya V. Nosova, Pavel V. Davidov

“…The severe course of COVID-19 in pregnant women is associated with the high rate of placental disorders (odds ratio – OR 6.1; 95% confidence interval – CI 2.6–14.9), fetal growth retardation (OR 5.6; 95% CI 1.2–30.2), preeclampsia (OR 8.5; 95% CI 3.4–22.4), premature birth (OR 14.1; 95% CI 5.8–38.4), surgical delivery (OR 8.5; 95% CI 4.1-18.1), low birth weight of newborns (OR 18.0; 95% CI 6.4–62.2), hospitalization in the neonatal intensive care unit (OR 25.4; 95% CI 6.4–67.0). Conclusion. …”
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Neurological Crisis Following Intravenous Ozone Therapy; a Case Report by Chloe Y Y Wong, Komal Saxena, John Meneer, Koshy George, Gerben Keijzers

“…The patient required intensive care unit (ICU) admission, and despite improved neurological function experienced lasting cognitive impairments necessitating long-term rehabilitation. …”
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Ketamine Infusion Associated with Improved Neurology in a Patient with NMDA Receptor Encephalitis by Michael MacMahon, Morag R. Naysmith, Stephanie McCallion, Jonathan Rhodes

“…A young lady was ventilated on intensive care for a prolonged period with NMDA receptor encephalitis. …”
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Two Venovenous Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation for One Gunshot by Louis Pot, Alizée Porto, Audrey Le Saux, Amandine Bichon, Emi Cauchois, Marc Gainnier, Julien Carvelli, Jeremy Bourenne

“…We report the case of a 17-year-old male admitted in intensive care unit (ICU) for penetrating chest trauma due to multiple gunshot wounds. …”
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Tako-tsubo syndrome in an adolescent. A case report by Ariel Efrén Uriarte Méndez, Nancy González Vale, Lisandra Muñoz López

“…The case of a 16-years-old adolescent, with a history of having given birth 44 days before at the time of admission, who was received at the Emergency Department in serious condition, with dyspnea, precordial pain, and manifestations of shock, for what she was immediately referred to the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit it is presented. The history of having had a stress trigger such as delivery by cesarean section, the electrocardiogram with signs of myocardial ischemia, and the typical echocardiogram, with dyskinesia of the apical segments of the left ventricle, allowed the diagnosis of takotsubo syndrome and direct treatment in that sense. …”
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Emergency Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair in a Patient with Failing Heart: Axillofemoral Bypass Using a Centrifugal Pump Combined with Levosimendan for Inotropic Support by Pavel Michalek, Pavel Sebesta, Michael Stern

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Optimal isolation strategies of emerging infectious diseases with limited resources by Yinggao Zhou, Jianhong Wu, Min Wu

“…These solutions and their corresponding optimal control policies arederived explicitly in terms of initial conditions, model parameters and resources for isolation (such as the number of intensive care units).With sufficient resources, the optimal control strategy is the normal Bang-Bangcontrol. …”
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Gadolinium-Induced Acute Graft Pancreatitis in a Simultaneous Pancreas-Kidney Transplant Recipient by Chiang Sheng Lee, Rachel Yi Ping Tan, Nitesh N. Rao

“…We present a 32-year-old woman with prior history of simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplant who presented with generalized abdominal pain associated with systemic inflammatory response syndrome requiring admission to the intensive care unit. This occurred within 48 hours after having a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with gadolinium for investigation of subacute left optic atrophy. …”
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Perioperative Glycemic Control: Main Factor in Reducing Postoperative Complications in Diabetic Patients by Ariel Leonardo Alarcón Vela, Ximena Patricia Santacruz Solís, Ronelsys Martínez

“…Glucose regulation in the perioperative stage is an important parameter in diabetic patients, which considerably reduces complications in surgical procedures, long stays in Intensive Care Units, and even death.…”
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К истории создания Архангельской научной школы анестезиологии и реаниматологии by Эдуард Владимирович Недашковский, Т. Н. Унгуряну, Д. А. Свирский

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Acute Mastoiditis in a Newborn with Aural Atresia by K. Parpounas, K. Bouka, J. Athanasopoulos, M. Lamprou, G. Helmis, I. M. Vlastos

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Dandy-Walker Syndrome. Case Report and Literature Review by William Ernesto González Águila, Osiris Intento García, Nilda Beatriz Cortizo Martínez

“…We present the case of a newborn who was admitted to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit due to hypotonic, tongue protrusion with sucking disorders. …”
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Aging in Persons with Rett Syndrome: An Updated Review by Meir Lotan, Joav Merrick, Isack Kandel, Mohammed Morad

“…Due to the observed longevity of individuals with RS, and the fact that individuals with RS present the therapist/physician with specific clinical challenges, it is suggested that proper, long-term, and individually tailored, intensive care should be provided at all ages in the hope to prevent or at least reduce the age-related deterioration that is typical of this population.…”
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