Cardiovascular Complications of COVID-19: Risk, Pathogenesis and Outcomes

Cardiovascular Complications of COVID-19: Risk, Pathogenesis and Outcomes

This book discusses the evidence behind the relationship between COVID-19 and heart disease based on emerging state-of-the-art data. The rapid and unexpected global spread of the COVID-19 has revealed proportional levels... read more

Interdisciplinary Care of Children with Severe Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia

Interdisciplinary Care of Children with Severe Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia

Advances in perinatal care have dramatically improved survival of extremely preterm infants and the incidence of bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) has not changed over the past few decades, which likely reflects the impact... read more

Immunotherapy

Immunotherapy

The field of immuno-oncology continues to rapidly evolve as new insights to fight and treat cancer emerge. The fourth edition of Immunotherapy provides the most current overview of immuno-oncology in different cancer types... read more

Antiviral Drug Discovery and Development

Antiviral Drug Discovery and Development

This book summarizes state-of-the-art antiviral drug design and discovery approaches starting from natural products to de novo design, and provides a timely update on recently approved antiviral drugs and compounds in advanced... read more

Defining COVID-19 Associated Pulmonary Aspergillosis

Defining COVID-19 Associated Pulmonary Aspergillosis

The reported prevalence of CAPA in ICU patients with COVID-19 varies greatly by study and may be related to surveillance protocols and inconsistent definitions which may inflate the prevalence of this complication. Further... read more

Intravenous Vitamin C Administration to Septic Shock Patients

Intravenous Vitamin C Administration to Septic Shock Patients

Our pilot study indicated that intravenous vitamin C did not provide significant decreases in the mean dose or duration of vasopressor infusion. Further research that takes into account the potential impact of intervention... read more

Guidelines on Temperature Control After Cardiac Arrest in Adults

Guidelines on Temperature Control After Cardiac Arrest in Adults

The aim of these guidelines is to provide evidence‑based guidance for temperature control in adults who are coma‑tose after resuscitation from either in-hospital or out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, regardless of the underlying... read more

Equipotent Ratios for the Most Common Vasopressors

Equipotent Ratios for the Most Common Vasopressors

Calculating equipotent doses between vasopressor agents is necessary in clinical practice and research pertaining to the management of shock. This scoping review summarizes conversion ratios between vasopressors and provides... read more

ERC-ESICM Guidelines on Temperature Control After Cardiac Arrest in Adults

ERC-ESICM Guidelines on Temperature Control After Cardiac Arrest in Adults

The aim of these guidelines is to provide evidence‑based guidance for temperature control in adults who are comatose after resuscitation from either in-hospital or out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, regardless of the underlying... read more

Inhaled Corticosteroid Use on COVID-19 Outcomes Among Hospitalized Adult Asthmatics

Inhaled Corticosteroid Use on COVID-19 Outcomes Among Hospitalized Adult Asthmatics

While our findings confirm trends observed by others with respect to risk factors among asthmatics with COVID-19, differences based on sex, ethnicity and ICS use in asthmatics were observed. Our finding that ICS use was associated... read more

Study Supports Remdesivir Treatment for COVID-19 Patients on Low-Flow Oxygen or No Oxygen

Study Supports Remdesivir Treatment for COVID-19 Patients on Low-Flow Oxygen or No Oxygen

Remdesivir treatment increased the likelihood of clinical improvement in COVID-19 patients on low-flow oxygen or no oxygen, according to a new study by the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg... read more

Long-Term Opioid Prescription Linked to Higher Risk of Hepatitis C

Long-Term Opioid Prescription Linked to Higher Risk of Hepatitis C

Exposure to long-term prescription opioid therapy was linked to a three times higher risk of HCV seroconversion compared to individuals who were prescription opioid-naïve or acute. Prescription opioid use is associated... read more

Retrospective Analysis of Chest X-ray Severity Scoring System of COVID-19 Pneumonia

Retrospective Analysis of Chest X-ray Severity Scoring System of COVID-19 Pneumonia

The research will be retrospective, and will include a review of medical history of all patients admitted in the COVID-19 ICU of the University hospital Osijek during 2020 and 2021. Associated comorbidity, hospital admission... read more

Descriptors of Sepsis Using the Sepsis-3 Criteria

Descriptors of Sepsis Using the Sepsis-3 Criteria

We successfully operationalized the Sepsis-3 criteria to an electronic health record dataset to describe the characteristics of critical care patients with sepsis. This may facilitate sepsis research using electronic health... read more