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Predictors of mechanical ventilation and mortality in critically ill patients with COVID-19 pneumonia
Sergio Muñoz Lezcano, Miguel Ángel Armengol de la Hoz, Alberto Corbi, Fernando López, Miguel Sánchez García, Antonio Nuñez Reiz, Tomás Fariña González, Viktor Yordanov Zlatkov
Med Intensiva. 2024;48:3-13
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Improvement in intubation success during COVID-19 pandemic with a simple and low-cost intervention: A quasi-experimental study
Guillermo Jesús Mauro, Gustavo Armando, Lorena Natalia Cabillón, Santiago Tomás Benitez, Sabrina Mogliani, Amanda Roldan, Marisol Vilca, Ricardo Rollie, Gustavo Martins
Med Intensiva. 2024;48:14-22
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Factors associated with prolonged mechanical ventilation in children with pulmonary failure: Cohort study from the LARed Network registry
Juan Sebastián Barajas-Romero, Pablo Vásquez-Hoyos, Rosalba Pardo, Juan Camilo Jaramillo-Bustamante, Regina Grigolli, Nicolas Monteverde-Fernández, Sebastián Gonzalez-Dambrauskas, Roberto Jabornisky, ... on behalf of the LARed Network
Med Intensiva. 2024;48:23-36
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Factors associated with short- and long-term outcomes in lung cancer patients requiring unplanned invasive mechanical ventilation
Emeric Chatelain, Marie Simon, Romain Hernu, Laurent Argaud, Martin Cour
Med Intensiva. 2024;48:37-45
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More than one-third of patients with lung cancer were successfully weaned off unplanned invasive mechanical ventilation and discharged from ICU.
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The characteristics of lung cancer were not independently associated with weaning success or ICU survival.
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Less than 1 in 5 patients was still alive 1year after intensive care unit admission.
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Metastatic status and lung resection were the only 2 factors associated with long-term outcomes.
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Most survivors with planned cancer treatment were able to receive treatment after discharge from the ICU.
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Update in intensive care medicine: ultrasound in the critically ill patient. clinical applications
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Pulmonary alveolar proteinosis treated with whole-lung lavage under veno-venous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, clinical case series and review of the literature
Roberto Gómez-Sánchez, Patricia Santa-Teresa, José Javier García López, Patricia Duque, Jorge García-Carreño, Alexis Jaspe
Med Intensiva. 2024;48:59-61
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Images in intensive medicine