ALLMedicine™ Respiratory Failure Center

Jan 28th, 2023 - Requiring pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) admission relates to high mortality and morbidity in patients who received hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT). In this study, we aimed to evaluate the indications for PICU admission, treat...

Jan 28th, 2023 - Chronic respiratory failure is a common, important complication of many types of neuromuscular and chest wall disorders. While the pathophysiology of each disease may be different, these disorders can variably affect all muscles involved in breath...

Jan 27th, 2023 - Background and Rationale: Plastic bronchitis (PB) is a rare, disease characterized by the formation of obstructive fibrin airway casts. Presently, acute exacerbations of the illness are often treated with inhaled tissue plasminogen activator (tPA)...

Jan 27th, 2023 - Severe Community-acquired pneumonia (SCAP) is an emergence infection disease of lung parenchyma that acquired outside of a hospital setting. SCAP is a leading global infectious cause of intensive care unit (ICU) admission (approximately 20%-30%), ...

Jan 27th, 2023 - Open cardiac surgery is an important treatment method that is frequently used in the treatment of complicated atherosclerotic ischemic heart disease and heart valve diseases. Complications after cardiac surgery include; supraventricular tachycardi...

Oct 16th, 2021 - High-flow nasal cannula (HFNC) has become a frequently used noninvasive form of respiratory support in acute settings; however, evidence supporting its use has only recently emerged. These guidelines provide evidence-based recommendations for the ...

Jun 9th, 2021 - The imbalance between the prevalence of patients with acute respiratory failure (ARF) and acute-on-chronic respiratory failure and the number of intensive care unit (ICU) beds requires new solutions. The increasing use of non-invasive respiratory ...

Apr 27th, 2021 - The American College of Physicians (ACP) developed this guideline to provide clinical recommendations on the appropriate use of high-flow nasal oxygen (HFNO) in hospitalized patients for initial or postextubation management of acute respiratory fa...

Mar 12th, 2021 - Hospitalised patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) as a result of SARS-CoV-2 infection have a high mortality rate and frequently require noninvasive respiratory support or invasive ventilation. Optimising and standardising management t...

Dec 11th, 2020 - Mechanical ventilation (MV) is an essential part of modern intensive care medicine. MV is performed in patients with severe respiratory failure caused by respiratory muscle insufficiency and/or lung parenchymal disease; that is, when other treatme...

Jan 27th, 2023 - Background and Rationale: Plastic bronchitis (PB) is a rare, disease characterized by the formation of obstructive fibrin airway casts. Presently, acute exacerbations of the illness are often treated with inhaled tissue plasminogen activator (tPA)...

Jan 27th, 2023 - Severe Community-acquired pneumonia (SCAP) is an emergence infection disease of lung parenchyma that acquired outside of a hospital setting. SCAP is a leading global infectious cause of intensive care unit (ICU) admission (approximately 20%-30%), ...

Jan 27th, 2023 - Open cardiac surgery is an important treatment method that is frequently used in the treatment of complicated atherosclerotic ischemic heart disease and heart valve diseases. Complications after cardiac surgery include; supraventricular tachycardi...

Jan 27th, 2023 - More than 300 million major operations are performed worldwide each year, and older patients account for about a third of elective operations. Compared with young people, the elderly are more prone to postoperative complications due to age-related...

Jan 27th, 2023 - Bilateral Lung transplantation (LUTX) is performed in selected patients with end-stage respiratory failure. During surgery, pulmonary arteries are sequentially cross-clamped. This can cause acute heart failure and hemodynamic instability that even...

Jan 17th, 2023 - PCSK9 inhibitors may have a role in dampening vascular inflammation to improve outcomes in severe COVID-19, a pilot study suggested. Among people with severe COVID-19 with respiratory failure and heightened inflammation, the advantage of getting P...

Jan 17th, 2023 - Use of a triple-drug maintenance combination appeared to improve progression-free survival (PFS) in patients with newly diagnosed multiple myeloma following induction therapy and autologous stem-cell transplantation, an interim analysis of the pha...

Jan 12th, 2023 - While respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) did not appear to be more severe during its resurgence in 2021, hospital admissions increased for kids, possibly as a result of delayed first infection or no recent reinfection due to COVID-related restricti...

Jan 11th, 2023 - Patients on mechanical ventilation for severe COVID-19 pneumonia had similar mortality rates to patients with other forms of severe pneumonia, but those with COVID tended to be kept on ventilation longer, findings from a large health system showed...

Jan 6th, 2023 - Researchers have found a genetic link between the risk for COVID-19 infection and the leading cause of vision loss among people age 50 and older, age-related macular degeneration. The findings show that COVID and AMD were associated with variation.