This article is one of ten reviews selected from the Annual Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine 2018. Other selected articles can be found online at https://www.biomedcentral.com/collections/annualupdate2018 . Further information about the Annual Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine is available from http://www.springer.com/series/8901 .

The operative correction of the funnel chest is a difficult and important problem. Quite a number of methods and modifications have been mentioned. Late results, however, do not always come up to expectation. As a seriously deformed funnel chest may lead to troubles of the functions of the lungs and heart (Wegmann and Schaub, 1953; Schaub and Wegmann, 1954) operations should be limited to such ...

introduction hydatid cyst is a significant health problem in underdeveloped and developing countries, particularly among sheep breeders. although cardiac involvement is seen only in 0.2% to 3% of the cases, early diagnosis and treatment are important. case presentation a 13-year-old boy with dyspnea and atypical pericardial type chest pain for three months was referred to us. chest x-ray reveal...

Patient–ventilator asynchrony can often be corrected by ventilator adjustment rather than sedation.

STUDY OBJECTIVES Despite the recognition that ventilator weaning is associated with a change in autonomic nervous system activity, there has not been any report concerning the change of heart rate variability (HRV), a reliable method to detect autonomic nervous system activity, in patients during weaning. The aim of this study was to investigate the change of autonomic nervous system activity d...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate operative technique, patient selection and perioperative management of single-lung transplantation for a patients with end-stage emphysema. METHODS A 56-year-old patient with end-stage emphysema underwent left-lung transplantation on September 28, 2002. The surgical technique used was similar to that mentioned in the literature. The donor lung was perfused by LPD solutio...

An elderly female aspirated a donut and subsequently had loss of consciousness and cardiopulmonary arrest. Family members performed chest compressions until emergency medical services arrived and resuscitated the patient with an adequate heart rate and blood pressure. On hospital admission, the patient was nonresponsive on a mechanical ventilator. Cardiac auscultation revealed distant heart ton...