TOPIC: Critical Care TYPE: Original Investigations PURPOSE: With the increasing medicinal use of cannabis and potential anti-inflammatory role, we aimed to assess odds in-hospital mortality septic shock with vs. without among geriatric sepsis patients chronic kidney or liver diseases (CKD/CLD) using a nationally representative cohort. METHODS: We queried National Inpatient Sample (2017) identif...

background: hospitalization in neonatal intensive care unit (nicu) leads to a lot of stress and shock to the parents. nurses, as the primary sources of information, could play an important role in reducing their stress. the aim of this study was to determine the effect of educational program on the premature infants’ parental stress in nicu. methods: this double-blind randomized controlled tria...

TOPIC: Pulmonary Vascular Disease TYPE: Original Investigations PURPOSE: The role of obesity in outcomes pulmonary hypertension is controversial and data on young obese patients with secondary sparse. We aimed to assess the demographics, comorbidities, (SPH) population using a nationally representative cohort United States. METHODS: queried National Inpatient Sample (2017) used weighted identif...

TOPIC: Critical Care TYPE: Original Investigations PURPOSE: In-hospital mortality and morbidity of heart failure preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) patients on invasive mechanical ventilation remains high. Considering the lack contemporary evidence predictors respiratory support in this subset, we aimed to assess prevalence (MV) intubation (RI) HFpEF admissions national analysis. METHODS: We u...

TOPIC: Critical Care TYPE: Original Investigations PURPOSE: Diabetes mellitus is a known risk factor in the development of sepsis. Studies have shown worse outcomes critical patients with poor glycemic control, but recent meta-analysis showed improved sepsis diabetes. Considering inconclusive findings, we aim to further assess burden and admissions non-diabetics prediabetes. METHODS: The Nation...

Background The EULAR task force “Implementation of a mobile health app for the self-management juvenile-onset rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases (jRMDs) during transitional care” aims at designing, developing implementing program through smartphone (i.e., Move-Up app). first step this was to adapt current recommendations/points originally developed adults, young people (YP) with jRMDs. Obje...

Complications like anastomotic leakage (AL) after colorectal procedures are associated with significant morbidity. Subclinical AL can be misleading due to clinical behaviour and hence poses a diagnostic dilemma. Sometimes Radiological investigations are adjunct but may be detouring in diagnostic progression. We present a case of subclinical AL where near-miss in diagnosis led to unfavourable ou...

TOPIC: Occupational and Environmental Lung Diseases TYPE: Fellow Case Reports INTRODUCTION: Infections caused by Cryptococcus neoformans occur mainly in immunocompromised hosts, most commonly present either as primary lower respiratory infections or secondary disseminated processes. Isolated laryngeal cryptococcosis is a rare clinical entity with few cases reported medical literature. We are pr...

Spatial haptics is a fascinating technology with which users can explore and modify 3D computer graphics objects with the sense of touch, but its application potential is often misunderstood. For a large group of application designers it is still unknown, and those who are aware of it often have either too high expectations of what is technically achievable or believe it is too complicated to c...