Acute respiratory distress syndrome in adults: diagnosis, outcomes, long-term sequelae, and management

EA Gorman, CM O'Kane, DF McAuley - The Lancet, 2022 - thelancet.com
Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is characterised by acute hypoxaemic
respiratory failure with bilateral infiltrates on chest imaging, which is not fully explained by …

Community-acquired pneumonia

E Prina, OT Ranzani, A Torres - The Lancet, 2015 - thelancet.com
Community-acquired pneumonia causes great mortality and morbidity and high costs
worldwide. Empirical selection of antibiotic treatment is the cornerstone of management of …

Characterisation of the first 250 000 hospital admissions for COVID-19 in Brazil: a retrospective analysis of nationwide data

OT Ranzani, LSL Bastos, JGM Gelli… - The Lancet …, 2021 - thelancet.com
Background Most low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) have little or no data
integrated into a national surveillance system to identify characteristics or outcomes of …

[PDF][PDF] Protective versus conventional ventilation for surgery: a systematic review and individual patient data meta-analysis

E Futier, W Schmid, P Severgnini, P Pelosi - Anesthesiology, 2015 - academia.edu
Background: Recent studies show that intraoperative mechanical ventilation using low tidal
volumes (VT) can prevent postoperative pulmonary complications (PPCs). he aim of this …

Protective ventilation and outcomes of critically ill patients with COVID-19: a cohort study

JC Ferreira, YL Ho, BAMP Besen… - Annals of intensive …, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Background Approximately 5% of COVID-19 patients develop respiratory failure
and need ventilatory support, yet little is known about the impact of mechanical ventilation …

Acute respiratory distress syndrome

M Confalonieri, F Salton… - European Respiratory …, 2017 - Eur Respiratory Soc
Since its first description, the acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) has been
acknowledged to be a major clinical problem in respiratory medicine. From July 2015 to July …

The Epimed Monitor ICU Database®: a cloud-based national registry for adult intensive care unit patients in Brazil

FG Zampieri, M Soares, LP Borges… - Revista Brasileira de …, 2017 - SciELO Brasil
Objective: To describe the Epimed Monitor Database®, a Brazilian intensive care unit quality
improvement database. Methods: We described the Epimed Monitor® Database, including …

Positive fluid balance as a prognostic factor for mortality and acute kidney injury in severe sepsis and septic shock

FSV de Oliveira, FGR Freitas, EM Ferreira… - Journal of critical …, 2015 - Elsevier
Purpose The purpose of this study is to assess whether late positive fluid balances are
associated with acute kidney injury and mortality in severe sepsis and septic shock. Methods …

Epidemiological characteristics, practice of ventilation, and clinical outcome in patients at risk of acute respiratory distress syndrome in intensive care units from 16 …

AS Neto, CSV Barbas, FD Simonis… - The Lancet …, 2016 - thelancet.com
Background Scant information exists about the epidemiological characteristics and outcome
of patients in the intensive care unit (ICU) at risk of acute respiratory distress syndrome …

[HTML][HTML] Global critical care: moving forward in resource-limited settings

JV Diaz, ED Riviello, A Papali, NKJ Adhikari… - Annals of global …, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Caring for critically ill patients is challenging in resource-limited settings, where the burden
of disease and mortality from potentially treatable illnesses is higher than in resource-rich …