Abstract Background Previous studies reporting the causes of death in patients with severe COVID-19 have provided conflicting results. The objective this study was to describe and timing admitted intensive care unit (ICU). Methods We performed a retrospective eight ICUs across seven French hospitals. All consecutive adult (aged ≥ 18 years) ICU PCR-confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection acute respirator...

Context.—No pharmacological therapeutic protocol has been found effective in modifying the clinical course of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and mortality remains greater than 50%. Objective.—To determine the effects of prolonged methylprednisolone therapy on lung function and mortality in patients with unresolving ARDS. Design.—Randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial. Se...

Introduction Influenza is a contagious disease that causes epidemics in many parts of the world. The World Health Organization estimates that influenza causes three to five million severe illnesses each year and 250,000-500,000 deaths [1]. Predicting and characterizing outbreaks of influenza is an important public health problem and significant progress has been made in predicting single outbre...

Organizations have to work with large volumes of information at different formats. In this context they are necessary tools and formats like XML, to integrate these data and solve the heterogeneity problem. In this paper we proposed a new software tool called XDS. XDS is a new system to integrate data from relational databases, native XML databases and XML documents. On the other hand, the envi...

Abstract Background Multiple organ dysfunction syndrome (MODS) and the consecutive multiple failure (MOF) are severe dreaded complications with a high mortality in trauma patients. The aim of this study was to investigate potential adipokines leptin, resistin, interleukin-17A interleukin-33 as possible biomarkers early posttraumatic inflammatory response for identifying severely traumatized pat...

Abbreviations: ACS: Abdominal Compartment Syndrome; APACHE-II: Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation II; CT: Computed Tomography; CVVH: Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy; DCO: Damage Control Operation; EVAR: Endovascular Aneurysm Repair; IAH: Intra-abdominal Hypertension; IAP: Intraabdominal Pressure; ICU: Intensive Care Unit; MODS: Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome; rAAA: Rupture...