Rationale: Cardiopulmonary resuscitation is the cornerstone of cardiac arrest (CA) treatment. However, lung injuries associated with it have been reported.Objectives: To assess 1) presence and characteristics abnormalities induced by cardiopulmonary 2) role mechanical manual chest compression (CC) in its development.Methods: This translational study included a porcine model CA (n = 12) multicen...

Acute lung injury occurs mostly in the very low birth weight and extremely low birth weight infants. The pathological process leading to acute lung injury includes immature and/or diseased lung that experienced oxidative stress, inflammation and mechanical insult with the bronchial, alveolar and capillary injuries and cell death. It may be the first step to the subsequent development of chronic...

The Aim. the forensic determination of severity closed chest injuries with intact ribs in victims hospitalized a specialized surgical hospital to establish diagnostic expert criteria for assessment such dmages.Materials and methods. 52 case histories patients at Kharkiv institute general emergency surgery named after V.T. Zaitseva were analyzed. Patients divided into 4 groups based on dynamics ...

At 07:39 on 11 March 2004, 10 terrorist bomb explosions occurred almost simultaneously in four commuter trains in Madrid, Spain, killing 177 people instantly and injuring more than 2000. There were 14 subsequent in-hospital deaths, bringing the ultimate death toll to 191. This report describes the organization of clinical management and patterns of injuries in casualties who were taken to the c...