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The authors present an updated review of the use of tissue plasminogen activator in patients with acute ischemic stroke.
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In this retrospective study of extubation outcomes in five ICUs at a single medical center, patients extubated at night had no increase in adverse events and their mortality rates and lengths of ICU stay were lower. However, these results were likely affected by the high proportion of post-cardiac-surgery patients in the nighttime extubation group.
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This observational cohort study found that reduced ICU bed availability is associated with increased rates of ICU readmission as well as ward cardiac arrest if medical ICU beds were on shortage.
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This study completes the Imazio et al trilogy on the treatment of pericarditis and suggests that colchicine is the drug of first choice for acute pericarditis, first recurrences, and multiple recurrences.
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Children with H1N1 influenza are more likely to have neurologic complications compared to those with non-N1H1 seasonal influenza.
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In this study from 120 hospitals in the Project IMPACT database, the presence of hyperoxia (arterial PO2 300 mm Hg or higher) in the first 24 hours after resuscitation from cardiac arrest was associated with a worse in-hospital mortality than either normoxia or hypoxia.
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Indications for surgical or interventional management in acute type B aortic dissection (ABAD) include malperfusion syndromes, progression of dissection, and aneurysm expansion.
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There is no medical therapy for aortic stenosis (AS), and balloon aortic valvuloplasty (BAV) has sub-optimal long-term results.
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Cardiogenic unilateral pulmonary edema is unusual and, if it is the presenting manifestation of heart failure, diagnosis and appropriate treatment may be delayed.
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Patients undergoing major surgery tend to be older individuals with more comorbidities than the general non-surgical population.
