Perianesthesia management in laparotomy for patients with ileus obstruction leukocytosis using general anesthesia: A case report by Suandika Made, Handayani Rahmaya Nova, Ningrum Ema Wahyu, Dani Dwi Darmawan, Maharani Cindy, Sulaeman Ahmad

“…Postoperative monitoring in the intensive care unit supports a better recovery process with maintained hemodynamic stability and vital signs. …”
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Hyperglycemia in Hospitalized Patients Receiving Parental Nutrition Is Associated with Increased Morbidity and Mortality: A Review by Puja Rajender Kumar, Pam Crotty, Maitreyi Raman

“…This paper aims to provide a descriptive systematic review regarding the effects of PN-induced hyperglycemia in hospitalized patients, either in the intensive care unit or ward, while formulating and complementing existing guidelines on the administration of PN and glucose monitoring in hospitalized patients. …”
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Herpes Simplex Virus Hepatitis in an Immunocompetent Adult: A Fatal Outcome due to Liver Failure by Rachel A. Poley, Jaime F. Snowdon, Daniel W. Howes

“…Observation of a single patient. Setting. Intensive care unit of a tertiary care university teaching hospital in Canada. …”
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A Case of Histoplasma capsulatum Causing Granulomatous Liver Disease and Addisonian Crisis by P Wong, S Houston, B Power, E Lalor, VG Bain

“…He returned to hospital the same night with coffee-ground emesis and in Addisonian crisis requiring parenteral steroids and intensive care unit support. An abdominal computed tomography scan revealed bilaterally enlarged, nonenhancing adrenal glands suggestive of infarcts, presumed secondary to histoplasmosis. …”
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Endoscopic Appearance of Oropharyngeal and Upper GI Kaposi’s Sarcoma in an Immunocompromised Patient by Umar Darr, Anas Renno, Zubair Khan, Turki Alkully, Maitham A. Moslim, Sehrish Kamal, Ali Nawras

“…A 65-year-old male with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) was admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) with cardiopulmonary arrest secondary to hyperkalemia of 7.5 meq/L. …”
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Alterations of the Gut Microbiome in Chinese Zhuang Ethnic Patients with Sepsis by Jieyang Yu, Hongping Li, Jingjie Zhao, Yanhua Huang, Chunlei Liu, Pengfei Yang, Dinggui Lu, Jian Song, Lingzhang Meng

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Pathogenesis of Severe Clinical Pictures of Influenza A (H1 N1). Some answers and new doubts. by Alfredo Darío Espinosa Brito, Ángel Julio Romero Cabrera

“…This situation may lead the patient to the intensive care unit and could cause his death, although the figures of such cases stay relatively low, in relation to other epidemics of seasonal Influenza. …”
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E. coli Meningitis Presenting in a Patient with Disseminated Strongyloides stercoralis by Juliana B. Gomez, Yvan Maque, Manuel A. Moquillaza, William E. Anicama

“…Three days later the patient died in the intensive care unit due to septic shock. Autopsy was performed and microscopic examination revealed the presence of multiple Strongyloides larvae throughout the body. …”
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Epidemiology and Outcomes from Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest in Kuwait by Dalal Al Hasan, Ameen Yaseen, Mazen El Sayed

“…Data were collected from various sources: national emergency medical services archived data, emergency department, intensive care unit, and cardiac care unit of two hospitals. …”
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Follow-Up of Newborns with Neural Tube Defects: A Single Center Experience by Umit Ayse Tandircioglu, Cansu Kethuda Ensert Cihan, Hasan Tolga Celik, Burcak Bilginer, Sule Yigit

“…Our study aims to retrospectively evaluate patients with neural tube defects hospitalized in our intensive care unit for the last decade. STUDY DESIGN: Demographic data, prenatal-maternal characteristics, surgical operation time, intensive care follow-up, and long-term neurological-developmental results of these patients were also evaluated. …”
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Prevalence and Temporal Distribution of Extrasystoles in Septic ICU Patients: The Feasibility of Predicting Fluid Responsiveness Using Extrasystoles by Johannes Enevoldsen, Cristhian Potes, Minnan Xu-Wilson, Simon T. Vistisen

“…The aim of this study was to estimate the availability of extrasystoles in intensive care unit patients diagnosed with sepsis. The study aim was not to validate the fluid responsiveness prediction ability of extrasystoles. …”
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Varying Presentations of Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome Temporarily Associated with COVID-19 by Jasmina Krikilion, Lisa Nuyttens, Siel Daelemans, Karlien François, Reiner Mauel, Daniel De Wolf, Gerlant van Berlaer

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Unattended Home Labor until Complete Cervical Dilatation Ending with Hospital Delivery: Analysis of 238 Pregnancies by Ozlem Gun Eryilmaz, Nasuh Utku Dogan, Cavidan Gulerman, Leyla Mollamahmutoglu, Nedim Cicek, Ruya Deveer

“….), but neonatal intensive care unit admissions of the infants were more prevalent (P<0.01) in the study group. …”
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Serum Endothelin-1 and Transforming Growth Factor-β Levels in the Newborns With Respiratory Distress by Derya Benzer, A. Denizmen Aygun, Ahmet Godekmerdan, A. Nese (Citak) Kurt, Saadet Akarsu, Erdal Yilmaz

“…In this study, newborns with respiratory distress hospitalized into the Newborn Intensive Care Unit were included. The highest values of ET-1 and TGF-β were obtained from newborns with diagnosis as meconium aspiration syndrome (5.70±5.87 pg/mL and 3.75±1.94 pg/mL, resp) in the sample obtained in the first six hours after birth, and these are statistically different from control group (P<.05). …”
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Primary Injuries and Secondary Organ Failures in Trauma Patients with Acute Kidney Injury Treated with Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy by Sigrid Beitland, Ingrid Os, Kjetil Sunde

“…Forty-two (8%) of 506 trauma patients admitted to intensive care unit developed AKI treated with CRRT, whereof 40 (95%) suffered blunt trauma mechanisms. …”
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Maternal and Perinatal Outcomes in Teenage Versus Adult Pregnancies – A Prospective Comparative Study by Prathima S, Sarojini -, Ashakiran T R, Manasa K, Bhanu BT

“…Neonatal parameters compared included gestational age at birth birth weight need for resuscitation neonatal intensive care unit NICU admission and perinatal death.Results The percentage of teenage pregnancies was 8.05. …”
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Clara Cell Protein Expression in Mechanically Ventilated Term and Preterm Infants with Respiratory Distress Syndrome and at Risk of Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia: A Pilot Study by José Guzmán-Bárcenas, Antonio Calderón-Moore, Héctor Baptista-González, Claudine Irles

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MRI and the Critical Care Patient: Clinical, Operational, and Financial Challenges by Barbara McLean, Douglas Thompson

“…Neuroimaging in conjunction with a neurologic examination has become a valuable resource for today’s intensive care unit (ICU) physicians. Imaging provides critical information during the assessment and ongoing neuromonitoring of patients for toxic-metabolic or structural injury of the brain. …”
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E-Bike Injuries: Experience from an Urban Emergency Department—A Retrospective Study from Switzerland by Sylvana Papoutsi, Luca Martinolli, Christian Tasso Braun, Aristomenis K. Exadaktylos

“…The outcome showed that 9 patients were treated as outpatients, 9 were inpatients, and 5 patients were kept in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). Only six patients underwent surgery (S). …”
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Prognosis of Pregnancies with Different Degrees of Glucose Intolerance by Sevgi Ayhan, Sündüz Özlem Altınkaya, Tayfun Güngör, Utku Özcan

“…RESULTS: Macrosomia, neonatal intensive care unit admission and preterm premature rupture of membranes were the highest in the group with one elevated value after glucose tolerance test. …”
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