Traumatic brain injury is the most common group of injuries among victims admitted to emergency departments. Up 20 % individuals with damage require endotracheal intubation and mechanical ventilation, duration which significantly longer than in non-neurological patients. Such patients have a higher incidence acute respiratory distress syndrome ventilator-associated pneumonia, weaning extubation...

Background Acute respiratory infection is still the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in children under five in many countries. We aimed to assess the incidence and risk factors predicting the outcome of Acute Respiratory Infection (ARI). Materials and Methods This is a hos...

INTRODUCTION We conducted a meta-analysis in order to investigate the effect of histamine-2-receptor antagonists (H2RA) versus sucralfate on stress ulcer prophylaxis in mechanically ventilated patients in the intensive care unit (ICU). METHODS A systematic literature search of Medline, EMBASE, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (1966 to January 2010) was conducted using specific s...

The aim of this retrospective single-institution observational study was to identify whether the frequency of hospitalizations for pneumonia would change before and after the initiation of noninvasive positive pressure ventilation in children with neurological conditions. Included patients were 1 to 18 years old with an underlying neurological disease and had been prescribed nocturnal noninvasi...

Background: Pneumonia remains a global health problem; however, there are limited data available on the specific risk factors for pneumonia and pneumonia-related mortality in children. Aims objectives were to analyze various demographic which associated with children severe pneumonia. Methods: This observational cross-sectional study was conducted tertiary care PICU central India pediatric pati...

A previously fit 48-year-old man was admitted with an acute respiratory failure due to mycoplasma pneumonia that was confirmed by raised mycoplasma titre on complement fixation test. It was also associated with disseminated intravascular coagulopathy. The patient made a full recovery but required intermittent positive pressure ventilation.

BACKGROUND Critically ill patients who require mechanical ventilation are at risk for ventilator-associated pneumonia. Current data are conflicting as to the optimal diagnostic approach in patients who have suspected ventilator-associated pneumonia. METHODS In a multicenter trial, we randomly assigned immunocompetent adults who were receiving mechanical ventilation and who had suspected venti...

BACKGROUND Previous reviews showed no benefit for the administration of probiotics in critically ill patients, but they did not focus on ventilator-associated pneumonia. DESIGN Meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials comparing probiotics and control in patients undergoing mechanical ventilation and reporting on incidence of ventilator-associated pneumonia. METHODS PubMed, Scopus, Curr...

CONTEXT The histologic patterns of diffuse alveolar damage (DAD), bronchiolitis obliterans with organizing pneumonia (BOOP), and eosinophilic pneumonia (EP) are well-recognized histologic patterns of lung injury associated with an acute or subacute clinical presentation. We have recognized acute fibrinous and organizing pneumonia (AFOP) as a histologic pattern, which also occurs in this clinica...