BACKGROUND Methylene bis(thiocyanate) (MBT) is a microbiocidal agent mainly used in industrial water cooling systems and paper mills as an inhibitor of algae, fungi, and bacteria. CASE PRESENTATION We describe the first case of severe intoxication following inhalation of powder in an industrial worker. Profound cyanosis and respiratory failure caused by severe methemoglobinemia developed with...

Long-term acute care hospitals (LTACHs) have a niche role in the health care system. They specialize in caring for patients who are ventilator-dependent, are on inpatient dialysis, or have multi-organ or multi-system failure, postsurgical or organ transplant complications, complex wounds that need care, or traumatic or acquired brain injury. Many physicians are unfamiliar with the work done by ...

• Vol 9 • August 2007 628 In 1992, Ronald Asherson [1] proposed a new and potentially fatal subset of the antiphospholipid syndrome that was named catastrophic APS, which is characterized by acute multi-organ failure (three or more damaged organ systems and histopathological evidence of multiple microthrombosis). Later, in 2003, his name was formally linked to the condition. The trigger is most...

The syndrome of multiple organ failure has been recognised as a distinc t entity since the 1970s, and is the leading cause of mortality in intensive care1. It was subsequently appreciated that patients develop a spectrum of organ dysfunction which may or may not require pharmacological (eg inotropic) or mechanical (eg ventilation) support. This led to the coining of a new syndrome, multi-organ ...

conclusions immediate and adequate use of antioxidants and hemodialysis has an undeniable and important role in survival of patients after ingestion of a large amount of paraquat. case presentation the present case report introduced a 25-year-old male with nausea, vomiting, and severe substernal burning sensation after incidentally ingestion of a large amount of paraquat. the treatment of the p...

A systemic inflammatory response causing multi-organ failure and requiring multiple amputations was refractory to all treatments except Anakinra, and the cause remains unclear.

Results 23 year old woman suffered cardiac arrest due to a combined drug overdose with high doses of barbiturates, benzodiazepines and opioids. The patient was found unconscious and after 8 minutes of successful resuscitation transferred to the ICU where she rapidly developed multi organ failure due to the hypoxia and hypo perfusion during the time of cardiac arrest. The organ failure included ...

CytoSorb(®) (CytoSorbents Corporation, USA) is a novel sorbent hemoadsorption device for cytokine removal. The aim of this study was to examine the clinical use of CytoSorb(®) in the management of patient with septic shock. We used this device as an adjuvant to stabilize a young patient with multi-organ failure and severe sepsis with septic shock. A 36-year-old female patient was hospitalized w...

The 2009 Pandemic Novel Influenza A [HIN1] resulted in mild disease mostly but severe cases and death were associated with pneumonia, respiratory failure and multi-organ failure. We present a case of severe disease with acute heart failure and arrhythmia due to fulminant myocarditis in a 50- year old obese man with diabetes mellitus.