3D Printing PPE During COVID-19 Pandemic

3D Printing PPE During COVID-19 Pandemic

Supply chain disruption during the COVID-19 pandemic has forced healthcare systems to look for alternative ways to meet dramatically increased demand for personal protective equipment (PPE). One potential solution to this... read more

Effect of Intra-arrest Transport, ECPR, and Treatment on Functional Neurologic Outcome

Effect of Intra-arrest Transport, ECPR, and Treatment on Functional Neurologic Outcome

Among patients with refractory out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, the bundle of early intra-arrest transport, extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation (ECPR), and invasive assessment and treatment did not significantly improve... read more

POCUS and Digital Tomosynthesis Correlation When Used with COVID-19 Pneumonia Patients

POCUS and Digital Tomosynthesis Correlation When Used with COVID-19 Pneumonia Patients

Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) in primary care has good sensitivity and specificity when compared to digital tomosynthesis as regards the diagnosis of COVID-19 pneumonia in patients with the clinical suspicion of pulmonary... read more

Cerebral Hypoperfusion Detection with Dynamic Hyperoxia Test

Cerebral Hypoperfusion Detection with Dynamic Hyperoxia Test

In a heterogeneous population of acute brain-injured patients, cerebral multimodal monitoring with intracranial pressure (ICP) and brain tissue oxygen pressure (PbtO2) detected regional cerebral hypoperfusion with a higher... read more

Infection Microbiology and Management

Infection Microbiology and Management

Infection: Microbiology and Management provides a core resource for the understanding of medical microbiology and infectious diseases. Content covers microbiological and clinical diagnosis, through to clinical management,... read more

Clinical Profile and Recovery Pattern of Dysphagia in COVID-19 Patients

Clinical Profile and Recovery Pattern of Dysphagia in COVID-19 Patients

COVID-19 considerably impacted swallowing function in the current study. Although many patients recovered within an acceptable timeframe, some experienced persistent severe dysphagia and a protracted recovery with dependence... read more

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

A Cold Case of Superior Vena Cava Syndrome

A Cold Case of Superior Vena Cava Syndrome

A 61-year-old woman with hypertension, diabetes mellitus, hyperlipidemia, coronary artery disease, congestive heart failure (s/p PPM/ICD), pulmonary embolism (on warfarin), end-stage renal disease (on HD via right internal... 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

Ascending Aortic Thrombus After COVID-19 Infection

Ascending Aortic Thrombus After COVID-19 Infection

SARS-CoV-2 predisposes patients to both venous and arterial thromboembolism, including ascending aortic thrombus. The current guidelines for anticoagulation recommend three to six months of continuous anticoagulation... read more

Cancer Treatments Not Associated with Inferior COVID-19 Outcomes

Cancer Treatments Not Associated with Inferior COVID-19 Outcomes

The findings of this study of patients with active cancer suggest that recent systemic anticancer treatments (SACTs) is not associated with inferior outcomes from COVID-19 infection. This has relevance for the care of... 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

Deconstructing the Way We Use Pulmonary Function Test Race-Based Adjustments

Deconstructing the Way We Use Pulmonary Function Test Race-Based Adjustments

Race is a social construct. It is used in medical diagnostic algorithms to adjust the readout for spirometry and other diagnostic tests. The authors review historic evidence about the origins of race adjustment in spirometry,... read more