Background Acute deterioration in critical ill patients is often preceded by changes in
physiological parameters, such as pulse, blood pressure, temperature and respiratory rate. If …

Objectives: This review and meta-analysis reviews the prognostic value of cardiac magnetic
resonance (CMR) in nonischemic dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM). Background: Late …

Background Insertion of a central venous catheter (CVC) is common practice in critical care
medicine. Complications arising from CVC placement are mostly due to a pneumothorax or …

Background Ischemic heart disease is a major cause of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. The
role of immediate coronary angiography and percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in …

Background Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is a major cause of hospitalisation in infants.
The burden of RSV infection in healthy term infants has not yet been established. Accurate …

Importance At present, the choice of noninvasive testing for a diagnosis of significant
coronary artery disease (CAD) is ambiguous, but nuclear myocardial perfusion imaging with …

Background Emergency medical services (EMS) personnel have already made substantial
contributions to improving care for patients with time-dependent illnesses, such as trauma …

Background: Fractional flow reserve (FFR) computation from coronary computed
tomography angiography (CTA) datasets (FFRCT) has emerged as a promising noninvasive …

Importance Although inadequate sleep has a proven negative association with health care
outcomes, to date, no large-scale studies have examined sleep in general hospital wards …

Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) universally recurs with dismal prognosis. We evaluated the
efficacy of standard treatment strategies for patients with recurrent GBM (rGBM). From two …