Respiratory Support During Surgery with Nasal High Flow in Type II Respiratory Failure
The study presented in the image discusses the use of Nasal High Flow (NHF) therapy during surgery in a patient with end-stage Chronic...
Hazardous Chemical Emergencies and Poisonings
Henretig et al. describe the hospital-based management of acute poisonings. We would like to remind clinicians of the emerging role and...
Postpartum Bilateral Tension Pneumothoraces
Postpartum Bilateral Tension Pneumothoraces
Metformin poisoning treated with high dose insulin dextrose therapy: a case series.
We describe the compassionate use of high dose insulin dextrose (HID) for life threatening metformin associated lactic acidosis (MALA) in...
The Lethal Triad: Sertraline, Mirtazapine and Methadone.
Serotonin syndrome is a potentially life-threatening complication of using serotonergic agents. Mirtazapine is a relatively safe...
Use hemofiltration for something else.
Several treatments have been proposed for the treatment of Hypertriglyceridaemic Pancreatitis; an uncommon cause of acute pancreatitis in...
Saving poisoned patients with basic methods in Intensive Care
Sometimes, patients recently admitted to Intensive Care, die so fast that we do not even have the time to make the diagnosis. And, in...
Is Cooling the solution?
It is still not clear if we should cool our patients after a cardiac arrest or a trauma brain injury, but you should decide after these...
To ventilate with pressure or volume; that is the question.
To ventilate with pressure control or volume control has been for decades a difficult question to answer. In a paper published in April...
Original Sins of Immunoglobulins in Sepsis
IVIG content in Ig isotypes could influence therapeutical results. This way, IgM-enriched IVIG could render more benefits in terms of...
