Although patients receiving extracorporeal life support (ECLS) as a bridge to transplantation have demonstrated worse outcomes than those without ECLS, we investigated the key factors in improvement of their posttransplant outcome. From December 2003 2018, 257 adult who underwent heart (HTx) at our institution were included. We identified 100 (38.9%) HTx during ECLS (ECLS group). The primary ou...

Aim: COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) pneumonia is a serious condition with high mortality and morbidity. Tools are needed for effective diagnosis better prediction of prognosis in the course this disease. This study aimed to compare effectiveness MuLBSTA (Multilobular infiltration, hypo-Lymphocytosis, Bacterial coinfection, Smoking history, hyper-Tension Age) score blood parameters, SOFA (S...

BACKGROUND Evidence-based guidelines for severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) do not include strategies for fluid administration. The protocol used in this study includes albumin administration to maintain normal colloid osmotic pressure and advocates a neutral to slightly negative fluid balance. The aim of this study was to analyze the occurrence of organ failure and the mortality in patients w...

BACKGROUND Sepsis recognition in older emergency department (ED) patients is difficult due to atypical symptom presentation. We therefore investigated whether the prognostic and discriminative performance of the five most commonly used disease severity scores were appropriate for risk stratification of older ED sepsis patients (≥70 years) compared to a younger control group (<70 years). METHO...

BACKGROUND The optimal control of blood volume without fluid overload is a main challenge in the daily care of intensive care unit (ICU) patients. Accordingly this study focused on the identification of biomarkers to help characterize fluid overload status. METHODS Sixty-seven patients were studied from ICU admission to day 7 (D7). Blood and urine samples were taken daily and sodium and water...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Hanging is a frequently used method to attempt suicide in India. There is a lack of data in the Indian population regarding clinical features and outcomes of suicidal hanging. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the factors affecting mortality and morbidity in patients admitted with suicidal hanging to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). METHODS A 6-year retrospective stu...

BACKGROUND Timely diagnosis and prognostic assessment of ventilator-associated pneumonia remain major challenges in critical care. OBJECTIVE To explore the value of soluble triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 1, procalcitonin, and the Clinical Pulmonary Infection Score in the diagnosis and prognostic assessment of ventilator-associated pneumonia. METHODS For 92 patients, bronchoa...

Health Care Management is one of the most important and most important research areas of the new millennium. The main purpose of this work was to analyze the data on malaria patients in India using the artificial neural networks such as Brainmaker and statistical analysis software (SAS). This data is known that SOFA (Sequential Organ Failure Assessment) score and this information useful in prov...

Aim To investigate the clinical utility of interleukin-6 (IL-6), procalcitonin (PCT), and C-reactive protein (CRP) as predictive markers in consideration of the time-course changes in critically ill patients with organ dysfunction. Methods Serum levels of IL-6, PCT, CRP, and Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) scores were measured sequentially in 92 patients during their initial 5 days...