BACKGROUND Few available models aim to identify patients at risk of prolonged ventilation after cardiac surgery. We compared prediction models developed in ICU in two adjacent periods of time, when significant changes were observed both in population characteristics and the perioperative management. METHODS We performed a retrospective review of two cohorts of patients in our department in tw...

aluminum phosphide poisoning (alpp) still has no efficient and approved antidote. supportive care and hemodynamic monitoring are the only choices of treatment. we proposed a new lavage formulation in addition to evaluation of its efficacy and defining the impact of clinical characteristics of patients on their prognosis. during eight months period of time, 120 patients were enrolled to the stud...

Background and objectives: the weaning procedure of mechanical ventilation in many patients is a difficult and long process and increases the time of mechanical ventilation. There are numerous ways to achieve this goal. One common way is using CPAP-ventilator. Considering the lower price of Blender-Humidifier compared to CPAPof ventilator and the limited number of studies in this field, this st...

OBJECTIVES To understand the role of patient-ventilator asynchrony in the etiology of sleep disruption and determine whether optimizing patient-ventilator interactions by using proportional assist ventilation improves sleep. DESIGN Randomized crossover clinical trial. SETTING A tertiary university medical-surgical intensive care unit. PATIENTS Thirteen patients during weaning from mechani...

OBJECTIVES Current clinical hyperpolarized He lung ventilation MR imaging protocols rely on the patient's ability to control inhalation and exhalation and hold their breath on demand. This is impractical for intensive care unit patients under ventilation or for pediatric populations under the age of 3 to 4 years. To address this problem, we propose a free-breathing protocol for hyperpolarized H...