INTRODUCTION The role of immediate coronary angiography and percutaneous coronary intervention (angio±PCI), amongst comatose survivors of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest is unclear. This study was undertaken to evaluate if immediate angio±PCI compared to no initial intervention improves neurological outcome at hospital discharge amongst comatose survivors of out-of-hospital pulseless ventricular...

BACKGROUND GlobalSurg-1 was a multicentre, international, prospective cohort study conducted to address the global lack of surgical outcomes data. Six South African (SA) hospitals participated in the landmark surgical outcomes study. In this subsequent study, we collated the data from these six local participants and hypothesised that the location of surgery was an independent risk factor for a...

as the data on the epidemiology and outcome of fungal infections in children with hematologic cancer are limited especially in iran, this study was aimed to delineate the epidemiologic features and outcome of fungal infections in this population. the medical records of all children with hematologic malignancies diagnosed with a fungal infection from 2005 to 2010 at a tertiary pediatric hospital...

BACKGROUND Although studies have shown there is a correlation between increased blood ammonia level and hepatic encephalopathy, little information is available for patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. METHODS AND RESULTS We did a prospective study of 357 adult patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest whose venous blood ammonia levels were measured on arrival at the emergency room...

Genetic factors may influence outcome from cardiac arrest. In Seattle, WA, paramedics collected blood specimens from patients who had suffered cardiac arrest outside of a medical institution (out of hospital cardiac arrest). We examined associations between apolipoprotein E (APOE) genotype and outcome in 134 who died "in the field", 131 who died in the hospital, 198 patients who were discharged...

conclusions systemic arterial leukocyte filtration reduces the intubation time but has no other beneficial effect on the outcome of patients undergoing cabg or valve surgery. results the postoperative intubation time was significantly shorter in patients with leukocyte filters (0.014). there was no significant difference between two groups regarding other outcome relatedvariables. patients and ...