Abstract Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) is a condition of varied etiology
characterized by the acute onset (within 1 week of the inciting event) of hypoxemia, reduced …

The growing coronavirus disease (COVID-19) crisis has stressed worldwide healthcare
systems probably as never before, requiring a tremendous increase of the capacity of …

Purpose To determine whether time-to-intubation was associated with higher ICU mortality
in patients with COVID-19 on mechanical ventilation due to respiratory insufficiency …

Objective Propofol for procedural sedation and analgesia (PSA) for colonoscopy can result
in a high prevalence of severe respiratory depression. Studies have shown that intravenous …

Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is essentially a clinical syndrome of
noncardiogenic pulmonary edema and hypoxia that contributes to significant morbidity and …

Background The driving pressure of the respiratory system is a valuable indicator of global
lung stress during passive mechanical ventilation. Monitoring lung stress in assisted …

The best noninvasive respiratory strategy in patients with Coronavirus Disease 2019
(COVID-19) pneumonia is still discussed. We aimed at assessing the rate of endotracheal …

Background: Acute respiratory distress syndrome is regarded as a formidable clinical
challenge due to its high prevalence and mortality. The treatment of acute respiratory …

Ventilator induced lung injury (VILI) is a lung injury syndrome associated with mechanical
ventilation, most frequently for treatment of Acute Lung Injury (ALI), and generally secondary …

Background: Damage control surgery and open abdomen (OA) have been extensively used
in the severe traumatic patients. However, there was little information when extended to a …