Background: The impact of intraoperative ventilation on postoperative pulmonary
complications is not defined. The authors aimed at determining the effectiveness of protective …

Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) can be derived from two pathogenetic
pathways: a direct insult on lung cells (pulmonary ARDS (ARDSp)) or indirectly (extrapulmonary …

Objective To assess the efficacy of noninvasive pressure support ventilation (NPSV) using a
new special helmet as first-line intervention to treat patients with hypoxemic acute …

Objective This bench and human study compared large and small helmets with face mask (FM)
for delivery of noninvasive positive pressure ventilation. Design A lung simulator was …

Background Critically ill patients admitted to intensive care unit (ICU) may suffer from different
painful stimuli, but the assessment of pain is difficult because most of them are almost …

• Sixty-two consecutive septic surgical patients receiving standard multimodal intensive care
unit treatment who developed a sepsis score of 20 or greater (day 0) were randomized to …

Background We investigated the role of the clinical pulmonary infection score (CPIS), serum
levels of procalcitonin (PCT), C-reactive protein (CRP), and serum amyloid A (SAA) in the …

An integrated approach including appropriate ventilatory, antibiotic, and fluid management
could be extremely useful, not only to prevent and more rapidly treat respiratory failure but …

Serial measurements of blood haemoglobin, serum iron, serum transferrin, total iron-binding
capacity, transferrin per cent saturation and serum ferritin were determined in 51 post-…

Increased intra-abdominal pressure (IAP) may occur in a number of different situations
encountered by intensivists, such as tense ascites, abdominal hemorrhage, use of military …