Ground-breaking New AI Technology for Severe Sepsis Rapid Identification

Ground-breaking New AI Technology for Severe Sepsis Rapid Identification

ASEP Medical Holdings Inc. announced the ground-breaking use of artificial intelligence (AI) to rapidly identify infections at increased risk of severe sepsis. The method was developed by the Hancock Lab, under the guidance... read more

Effect of Bradykinin Receptor Antagonism on ACE Inhibitor-associated Angioedema

Effect of Bradykinin Receptor Antagonism on ACE Inhibitor-associated Angioedema

This study compared the effect of placebo versus the bradykinin B2 receptor antagonist icatibant on symptoms of ACE inhibitor–associated angioedema in a mixed race population of patients. The study does not support the... read more

Combined Platelet and Erythrocyte Salvage: Evaluation of a New Filtration-based Autotransfusion Device

Combined Platelet and Erythrocyte Salvage: Evaluation of a New Filtration-based Autotransfusion Device

This study demonstrated the performance of the SAME device. Platelets and red blood cells were salvaged without significant impact on cell integrity and function. In the meantime, leukocytes were not activated, and the washing... read more

Mitochondrial Damage-Associated Molecular Patterns Exacerbate Lung Fluid Imbalance Via the Formyl Peptide Receptor-1 Signaling Pathway in Acute Lung Injury

Mitochondrial Damage-Associated Molecular Patterns Exacerbate Lung Fluid Imbalance Via the Formyl Peptide Receptor-1 Signaling Pathway in Acute Lung Injury

Mitochondrial damage–associated molecular patterns exacerbate lung fluid imbalance in the experimental acute lung injury model through formyl peptide receptor-1 signaling, the inhibition of which may prevent exacerbation... read more

Fibrin-derived Peptide as Salvage Treatment in Critically Ill Patients with COVID-19-associated ARDS

Fibrin-derived Peptide as Salvage Treatment in Critically Ill Patients with COVID-19-associated ARDS

After SARS-CoV-2 first occurred in China in December of 2019, it set out to become a global pandemic. Critically ill patients constitute about 2–9% of all infected patients and progress from pneumonia and hypoxemia to multi-organ... read more

Low-dose Atrial Natriuretic Peptide for Prevention or Treatment of AKI

Low-dose Atrial Natriuretic Peptide for Prevention or Treatment of AKI

Theoretically, atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP), especially low-dose ANP, is beneficial in acute kidney injury (AKI). In this study, we examined whether low-dose ANP is effective in preventing or treating AKI by conducting... read more

Circulating Secretoneurin Concentrations After Cardiac Surgery

Circulating Secretoneurin Concentrations After Cardiac Surgery

Circulating postoperative secretoneurin concentrations provide incremental prognostic information to established risk indices in patients undergoing cardiac surgery. Preoperative and postoperative secretoneurin concentration... read more

Predicting AKI using urinary liver-type fatty-acid binding protein and serum N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide levels in patients treated at medical cardiac ICUs

Predicting AKI using urinary liver-type fatty-acid binding protein and serum N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide levels in patients treated at medical cardiac ICUs

Urinary L-FABP and serum NT-proBNP levels on admission are independent predictors of acute kidney injury (AKI), and when used in combination, improve early prediction of AKI in patients hospitalized at medical cardiac intensive... read more

Natriuretic Peptides: A Role in Early Septic Acute Kidney Injury?

Natriuretic Peptides: A Role in Early Septic Acute Kidney Injury?

Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a common complication of critical illness and is associated with significant morbidity, mortality, and financial cost. Sepsis is the leading association of acute kidney injury in the intensive... read more

Elevated BNP Levels in CFS Associated with Cardiac Dysfunction

Elevated BNP Levels in CFS Associated with Cardiac Dysfunction

This study confirms an association between reduced cardiac volumes and brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) in chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). Lack of relationship between length of disease suggests that findings are not secondary... read more