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For PTs and OTs Who Struggle with Respiratory Care: 3 Things That Changed After I Became a Certified Respiratory Care Specialist | Honest Talk from an Acute Care PT

Have you ever had an experience like this in the ICU or an acute care ward? When SpO2 dropped, the only thing you could think of was 'let's take a break for now.' Even when shown blood gas values, you ...
Scientific Research Publishing

Diagnostic Performance of the Pulse Oxygen Saturation to Fraction of Inspired Oxygen Ratio in Adults with Acute Hypoxemic Respiratory Failure in an Intensive Care Unit in Sub ...

1 Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences (FMBS), University of Yaoundé 1, Yaoundé, Cameroon. 2 Douala General Hospital, Douala, Cameroon. 3 Faculty of Medicine and Pharmaceutical Sciences (FMSP), ...
Daily

Respiratory Distress in the Term Newborn: IAP Guidelines

Respiratory distress (RD) in newborn is characterized by increased work of breathing (WOB) in the form of tachypnea, grunting, chest retractions, and often associated with reduced air entry and ...
BMJ

Development and validation of a dynamic 48-hour in-hospital mortality risk stratification for COVID-19 in a UK teaching hospital: a retrospective cohort study

Objectives To develop a disease stratification model for COVID-19 that updates according to changes in a patient’s condition while in hospital to facilitate patient management and resource allocation.
Frontiers

Oxidative Stress and Hyper-Inflammation as Major Drivers of Severe COVID-19 and Long COVID: Implications for the Benefit of High-Dose Intravenous Vitamin C

Oxidative stress is a pivotal point in the pathophysiology of COVID-19 and presumably also in Long-COVID. Inflammation and oxidative stress are mutually reinforcing each other, thus contributing to ...
The Lancet

Associations of dynamic driving pressure and mechanical power with postoperative pulmonary complications–posthoc analysis of two randomised clinical trials in open abdominal ...

aDepartment of Intensive Care, Amsterdam UMC, location AMC, Amsterdam, The Netherlands bDepartment of Anaesthesiology, Amsterdam UMC, location AMC, Amsterdam, The Netherlands cDepartment of ...
The Lancet

Acute respiratory distress syndrome

cDivision of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Allergy and Sleep Medicine, Departments of Medicine and Anesthesia, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA Acute respiratory distress ...
BMJ

Severity of respiratory failure at admission and in-hospital mortality in patients with COVID-19: a prospective observational multicentre study

Objectives COVID-19 causes lung parenchymal and endothelial damage that lead to hypoxic acute respiratory failure (hARF). The influence of hARF severity on patients’ outcomes is still poorly ...
Frontiers

Intensive Care Admission and Early Neuro-Rehabilitation. Lessons for COVID-19?

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) requires admission to intensive care (ICU) for the management of acute respiratory distress syndrome in about 5% of cases. Although our understanding of COVID-19 is ...