The Economic Impact of COVID-19 Treatment at a Hospital-level: Investment and Financial Registers of Brazilian Hospitals by Ana Paula Beck da Silva Etges, Ricardo Bertoglio Cardoso, Milena S Marcolino, Karen Brasil Ruschel, Ana Paula Coutinho, Elayne Crestani Pereira, Fernando Anschau, Fernando Aranha, Filipe Carrilho, Giovanna Vietta, Gisele Alsina Nader Bastos, Joanna d’Arc Lyra Batista, José Miguel Chatkin, Juliana da Silva Nogueira, Leila Beltrami Moreira, Luciana Haddad, Maiara Floriani, Marília Teixeira de Siqueira, Patrícia Ziegelmann, Petrônio José de Lima Martelli, Roberta Pozza, Umbelina Cravo Teixeira Lagioia, Carisi Anne Polanczyk, Luciane Kopittke

“…**Results:** The majority of hospitals registered a decrease in hospitalization rates and revenue from 2019 to 2020. For intensive care units (ICUs), the mean occupancy rate ranged from 88% to 83%, and for wards, it ranged from 85% to 73%. …”
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Expression of Genes Associated with Efflux Pump and Porins in Acinetobacter baumannii Isolates Recovered from Different Clinical Specimens by Alya Amer Rahi, Huda Hadi Al-Hasnawy

“…Specimens were collected from burn wards and the intensive care unit. Patients ranged in age from 10 to 40 years. …”
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Tacrolimus Protects Podocytes from Apoptosis via Downregulation of TRPC6 in Diabetic Nephropathy by Ruixia Ma, Ying Wang, Yan Xu, Rui Wang, Xianghua Wang, Ning Yu, Minghui Li, Yan Zhou

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Hemolytic Crisis following Naphthalene Mothball Ingestion in a 21-Month-Old Patient with Glucose-6-Phosphate Dehydrogenase (G6PD) Deficiency by Maricel Dela Cruz, Muhammad Masood Khalid, Ahmed Mostafa, Muhammed Ershad, David Vearrier, Rita McKeever

“…The patient was admitted to the pediatric intensive care unit and underwent blood transfusion. Discussion. …”
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The role of chest X-ray in the diagnosis of neonatal respiratory distress syndrome: a systematic review concerning low-resource birth scenarios by Gabriela Silveira Neves, Zilma Silveira Nogueira Reis, Roberta Maia de Castro Romanelli, Jannine dos Santos Nascimento, André Dias Sanglard, James Batchelor

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A Study of How Moral Courage and Moral Sensitivity Correlate with Safe Care in Special Care Nursing by Fateme Mohammadi, Banafsheh Tehranineshat, Afsaneh Ghasemi, Mostafa Bijani

“…The participants consisted of 524 nurses who were in practice in the ICU (intensive care unit), CCU (C\coronary care unit), post-CCU (postcoronary care unit), and dialysis of four hospitals located in the south of Iran selected via census sampling. …”
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Combination drug therapy prevents CIAKI by suppressing ER stress-induced apoptosis by Xuan Wang, Shan Han, Lili Zhao, Hongliang Cong

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Factors Affecting the Length of Hospital Stay in Hypercapnic Respiratory Failure by Maşide Ari, Tarkan Ozdemir, Murat Yildiz, Deniz Celik, Eren Usul, Emrah Ari, Ömer Faruk Tüten

“…<b>Background/Objectives:</b> Hypercapnic respiratory failure (HRF) is a primary cause of admittance to the intensive care unit (ICU). This study aimed to investigate the factors that affect the length of hospital stay in HRF patients. …”
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Levels of IL-6 and IL-1β in Umbilical Cord Blood in Relation to Mode of Birth by Ebru Aslan Patlakoğlu, Sündüz Özlem ALTINKAYA, Mustafa Uğur, Cuma Taşın, Nezaket Kadıoğlu

“…The data of the present study did not support the increasing ratio of newborn complications (respiratory distress syndrome, bronchopulmonary dysplasia, the need for prolonged oxygen therapy and neonatal intensive care unit, allergic diseases of infancy period) after cesarean delivery due to inadequate increasing levels of cytokines in newborns delivered by cesarean. …”
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Ceftazidime–avibactam for the Treatment of Intra-abdominal Sepsis and Urosepsis: A Retrospective Hospital-based Study in India by Prachee Sathe, Chitra Lele, Simran Chandra, Tatyasaheb Jadhav, Durgesh Makwana, Devidas Bhalerao

“…Outcomes included inpatient mortality, clinical success/failure, and microbiological cure/failure measured on day 14/end of treatment, length of hospitalization and intensive care unit (ICU) admission, treatment and infection characteristics, recurrence within 30 days, and healthcare resource utilization. …”
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An environmental study of tracheostomy on eight COVID-19 patients by Kai Xu, Xin-Hao Zhang, Xiao-Bo Long, Xiang Lu, Zheng Liu

“…Therefore, this study aimed to evaluate viral shedding into the environment, including HCWs, associated with bedside tracheostomy in the intensive care unit. Methods Samples obtained from the medical environment immediately after tracheostomy, including those from 19 surfaces, two air samples at 10 and 50 cm from the surgical site, and from the personal protective equipment (PPE) of the surgeon and assistant, were tested for the presence of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 in eight cases of bedside tracheostomy. …”
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Oral administration of hydrolyzed collagen alleviates pain and enhances functionality in knee osteoarthritis: Results from a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study by Juan Antonio Carrillo-Norte, Guillermo Gervasini-Rodríguez, María Ángeles Santiago-Triviño, Virginio García-López, Rafael Guerrero-Bonmatty

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Rare Case of Multiple Perirenal, Extra-Adrenal Myelolipoma: Case Report, Current Management Options, and Literature Review by Goran Benko, Andrina Kopjar, Marin Plantak, Danijel Cvetko, Vicko Glunčić, Anita Lukić

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Evaluation of Procalcitonin, C-Reactive Protein, and Interleukin-6 as Early Markers for Diagnosis of Neonatal Sepsis by Emad A. Morad, Rehab A. Rabie, Mohamed A. Almalky, Manar G. Gebriel

“…This cross-sectional study was conducted on 50 neonates suspected with sepsis enrolled from the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) of Zagazig University Hospitals, Egypt. …”
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Sarilumab is not Inferior to Tocilizumab in the Treatment of Cytokine Release Syndrome in COVID-19 by V. T. Ivashkin, R. V. Maslennikov, E. V. Vasilieva, M. L. Chipurik, P. A. Semikova, V. V. Semenets, T. A. Russkova

“…SAR patients unlike TOC patients required intensive care unit admission less frequently then CON patients (16.7% and 25.9% vs. 46.3%; p=0.013 and p=0.077). …”
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Maternal Thyroid Dysfunction and Neonatal Thyroid Problems by Hulya Ozdemir, Ipek Akman, Senay Coskun, Utku Demirel, Serap Turan, Abdullah Bereket, Hulya Bilgen, Eren Ozek

“…Pregnant women with autoimmune hypothyroidism (group I) had more preterm delivery and their babies needed more frequent neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) admission. In group I, one infant was diagnosed with compensated hypothyroidism and one infant had transient hyperthyrotropinemia. …”
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Comparison of Risks Factors for Unplanned ICU Transfer after ED Admission in Patients with Infections and Those without Infections by Jeffrey Che-Hung Tsai, Ching-Wan Cheng, Shao-Jen Weng, Chin-Yin Huang, David Hung-Tsang Yen, Hsiu-Ling Chen

“…The objectives of this study were to compare the risk factors for unplanned intensive care unit (ICU) transfer after emergency department (ED) admission in patients with infections and those without infections and to explore the feasibility of using risk stratification tools for sepsis to derive a prediction system for such unplanned transfer. …”
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An Unusual Phenomenon of Tourniquetinduced Hypertension in a Young Adult Male Undergoing Lower Limb Surgery under Subarachnoid Block: A Case Report by Mridul Madhav Panditrao, Sarita Swami, Rohan Thombare

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Organization of the fight against COVID-19 in a hospital institution. Cienfuegos Province, 2020-2021 by Vivian Isabel Chávez Pérez, Helvia Manuela Reyes Cabrera, Hilda María Delgado Acosta, Lourdes Elena Duany Badell

“…On January the 5th, 2021, the second stage of confronting the disease began and the mission of the center was transformed towards the care of positive cases of COVID-19, the number of intensive care beds was increased, a sign of the progressive worsening of patients especially from the end of June, July and August 2021.…”
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Characteristics and Demographics of Patients Requiring Emergent Air Medical by Anna Van Tuyl, Mark Quilon, Trevor Dudley, Olivia Grant, Neha Rao, Paul Barbara, David S. Kugler, Kaitlin C. McLoone-Cepin, Josh Greenstein, Barry Hahn

“…Most patients were subsequently admitted (96%) at the receiving institution to an intensive care unit (72%). Conclusions. This study describes patients’ demographic and clinical characteristics who required emergent air medical transport. …”
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