Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Apocalypse—Rise of the World Health Organization Priority Pathogens by Apurva Kawdiya, Swati Bhalse, Gaurav Mogra, Kewal K Arora

“…Materials and methods: Retrospective data of positive blood cultures was collected for a period of 1.5 years (April 2022 to September 2023) from neonates admitted to the level three NICU of a medical college. …”
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Effects of Breast-Conserving Surgery Combined with Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy on Breast Cosmetic Appearance and Systemic Stress of Patients with Breast Cancer by Jing Ji, Junfeng Shi, Xia Da, Guozhu Wang, Jin Xu

“…Methods: A total of 150 early breast cancer patients admitted between January 2020 and September 2022 were retrospectively analyzed. …”
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Comparison of Endogenous Endophthalmitis in Patients with and Without COVID-19 Infection by Ehsan Namvar, Mehdi Moallem, Mehrdad Afarid, Alireza Bolkheir

“…Methods. All cases of EE admitted to Khalili Hospital between April 2020 and September 2021 were included in this prospective case-control study. …”
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Incidence, Causes, and Perinatal Outcomes of “Near-Miss” Obstetric Emergencies during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Experience from a Tertiary Referral Center of Western Rajasthan, India... by Garima Yadav, Charu Sharma, Pratibha Singh, Vrushti Solanki, Swati Chhabra, Priyanka Kathuria, Meenakshi Gothwal, Manisha Jhirwal, Shashank Shekhar

“…Materials and Methods: All women admitted to our facility with pregnancy-related complications for birth or in the puerperium who required critical care unit (CCU) or high dependency unit (HDU) admission were included in the study. …”
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Risk factors and outcomes of vitamin D deficiency in very preterm infants by Hannah Cho, Yoon Lee, Saelin Oh, Ju Sun Heo

“…Methods: A retrospective cohort study was conducted on VP infants admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit of a specialized tertiary hospital in Seoul, Republic of Korea, between January 2018 and June 2022. …”
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Influencing Factors of Pressure Ulcer in Critically Ill Patients by Li WANG, Qianting CAI, Ping CHEN

“…Thirty critically ill patients with pressure ulcers were collected in our hospital as the case group, and 30 patients who were admitted to the hospital during the same period without severe pressure ulcers were selected as the control group, and their clinic characteristics data were collected from clinical records, laboratory tests and by simple questionnaires. …”
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Opioid use and opioid overdose in the Netherlands – a 10 years retrospective study of naloxone administration in Dutch emergency departments by Bram Kok, Joris Holkenborg, Alba van der Have, Brigitte van de Kerkhof – van Bon, Joris Datema, Pieter Veenstra, Djoke Douma-den Hamer, Cornelis Kramers

“…The opioid mostly involved was oxycodone in 69 cases (37 %); followed by methadone in 41 cases (22 %) and fentanyl in 26 cases (14 %). 127 cases (68 %) were using opioids since >3 months. 176 cases (94 %) were admitted of whom 96 to the intensive care unit. Twenty three cases died within 30 days (12 %). …”
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Predictive value of integrated pulmonary index for the outcome of ventilator withdrawal failure in elderly patients with hypoxic respiratory failure by Nan Wu, Jin Liu, Xianrong Feng

“…[Methods] Clinical data of 151 elderly patients with hypoxic respiratory failure admitted to Jinzhou Central Hospital from January 2019 to January 2024 were collected and retrospectively analyzed. …”
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The Role of Interpersonal Relationships in Adolescents' Suicidal Behavior: A Qualitative Analysis of Semi-Structured Interviews by N.A. Polskaya, D.K. Yakubovskaya, D.A. Sharova, A.Ya. Basova

“… <p>This article presents the results of a qualitative analysis based on semi-structured interviews conducted with adolescents (n=13, aged 13&ndash;17), who were admitted to an inpatient psychiatric facility after attempted suicide. …”
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Evaluation of post-earthquake fractures according to anatomical body parts: A retrospective study by Muhammed Furkan Arpaci, Ferhat Tas, Gokce Bagci Uzun, Mehmet Akcicek, Feyza Inceoglu, Mine Argali Deniz, Emre Demirel, Hidir Pekmez

“…Radiographs were taken of patients admitted to the emergency department after the earthquake. …”
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Could serum Raftlin and GPER-1levels be new biomarkers for early detection of non-small cell lung cancer? by Aykut Eliçora, Berrak Güven, Hüseyin Engin, Gokcen Tugba Çevik, Hüseyin Fatih Sezer

“…Methods Lung cancer cases admitted to our hospital between 2016 and 2018 were included in our study. …”
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Risk factors for Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales infections: A case-control study by Sibongakonke Mbele, Sandeep D. Vasaikar

“…Prior studies highlight previous antibiotic use and prolonged hospital stays as paramount risk factors for CRE infections. However, there are limited reports available with a focus on identifying risk factors for CRE infections by comparing CRE cases with controls. …”
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The Role of Phosphatidylethanolamine-N-methyltransferase (PEMT) Gene rs12449964 Polymorphism in the Development of Acute Pancreatitis and its Complications by T. A. Samgina, Yu. E. Azarova, Yu. V. Kanishchev, V. A. Lazarenko, P. M. Nazarenko, A. V. Polonikov

“…Whole blood samples were collected from 502 unrelated patients with acute non-biliary pancreatitis (97 women and 405 men) of Russian nationality who had been admitted to the surgical departments of the city of Kursk from 2015 to 2018, as well as from 513 unrelated individuals of Russian nationality without gastrointestinal diseases (101 women and 412 men). …”
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The motives for non-suicidal self-injury among adolescents with psychiatric disorders by Armon Massoodi, Zeinab Aghajantabar, Sussan Moudi, Hoda Shirafkan

“…Conclusions Our findings indicate that NSSI in adolescents is not limited to a specific or single motive; instead, multiple factors contribute to its occurrence. …”
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Factors associated with ABCDEF bundle implementation for critically ill patients: An international cross-sectional survey in 54 countries by Junpei Haruna, Takeshi Unoki, Keibun Liu, Kensuke Nakamura, Shigeaki Inoue, Osamu Nishida

“…We conducted a secondary analysis of an international 1-day point-prevalence study that investigated the implementation of the ABCDEF bundle in critically ill patients. All patients admitted to the ICU were eligible. This study was conducted across 135 ICUs in 54 countries, including data from 664 patients. …”
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Cluster analysis of symptoms and assessment of caregiver reports in pediatric foreign bodies by Sergio Alzate-Ricaurte, Edgar Dario Alzate Gallego, Santiago Correa Salazar, Inés Elvira Gómez, Mario Miguel Barbosa, Fernando Fierro Ávila

“…This cross-sectional study analyzed 1,052 pediatric patients admitted for suspected FB events at a single institution between 2008 and 2015, including 886 cases of suspected ingestion and 166 cases of suspected aspiration. …”
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Challenges in Burns Management in a Tertiary Care Center in Albania by Vladimir Filaj, Ester Tabaku, Ina Kola, Ferdiola Gjonaj, Vilma Tafilaj, Henri Drinjak

“…Results: This retrospective cohort study included 303 burn patients admitted between January 2022 and January 2024. Data on patient demographics, burn causes, total body surface area (TBSA), and burn severity were collected and analyzed using SPSS software. …”
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Characteristics of patients with somatoform pain disorder by Lena Barth, Linda Baumbach, André Hajek, Lutz Götzmann, Katrin Feiks, Michael Rufer, Kyrill Schwegler, Bianca Schwennen, Kirstin Bernhardt, Uwe Wutzler, Paul Kaiser, Lutz Wittmann, Adrian Siegel

“…Methods We collected and analyzed a cross‐sectional survey data from 200 patients with somatoform pain admitted to one of three psychosomatic centers in Germany between August 2013 and July 2014. …”
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Predictive value of epicardial fat thickness for left ventricular reverse remodeling after radiofrequency ablation in atrial fibrillation patients with left ventricular hypertrophy by Ke Hu, Wenhui Wang, Junping Zhen, Chunsong Kang

“…[Methods] A total of 50 patients with atrial fibrillation admitted to Shanxi Bethune Hospital from June 2021 to September 2023 were retrospectively collected.The clinical data of the patients were collected by electronic medical records.EFT was examined by echocardiography.The patients were divided into groups according to whether reverse remodeling was achieved.Univariate and multivariate logistic regression models were used to analyze the factors of postoperative left ventricular reverse remodeling.ROC curve was used to analyze the predictive value of EFT. …”
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Iranian Pediatric COVID-19 Epidemiology and Clinical Characteristics by Shahnaz Armin, Mohammadreza Mirkarimi, Zahra Pourmoghaddas, Marjan Tariverdi, Azadeh Jafrasteh, Noushin Marhamati, Armin Shirvani, Abdollah Karimi, Sedigheh Rafiei Tabatabaei, Roxana Mansour Ghanaei, SeyedAlireza Fahimzad, Fariba Shirvani, Seyedeh Mahsan Hoseini-Alfatemi

“…In this study, most of the children who died had an underlying disease, so timely care and action is important in them. Most children admitted to our study received antibiotics and were prescribed antivirals and steroids for a smaller number. …”
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