Subramanian Senthilkumaran,Namasivayam Balamurugan,Shah Sweni et al.
Subramanian Senthilkumaran et al.
Ellen McDaniel,Stanislaw Pa Stawicki,David P Bahner
Ellen McDaniel
Blunt traumatic abdominal wall disruptions associated with evisceration are very rare. The authors describe a case of traumatic abdominal wall disruption with bowel evisceration that occurred after a middle-aged woman sustained direct focal...
The stunned atrial lead: Transient malfunction of a permanent atrial pacer lead following acute myocardial infarction [0.03%]
急性心肌梗塞后永久性心房起搏器电极导线短暂故障致心房起搏功能丧失一例
Shailendra Upadhyay,Stephen Marshalko,Craig McPherson
Shailendra Upadhyay
Proximal right coronary artery occlusion caused transient loss of sensing and capture of the atrial lead of a permanent dual-chamber pacemaker. Forty-five days after percutaneous revascularization, the atrial lead was discovered to be funct...
Gossypiboma, a rare cause of acute abdomen: A case report and review of literature [0.03%]
急性腹痛的罕见原因——外科纱布遗落病：一例报告及文献复习
Indu Lata,Deepa Kapoor,Sandeep Sahu
Indu Lata
Gossypiboma or textiloma is used to describe a retained surgical swab in the body after an operation. Inadvertent retention of a foreign body in the abdomen often requires another surgery. This increases morbidity and mortality of the patie...
Steven M Steinberg
Steven M Steinberg
For most clinicians and patients, the discussion of palliative care is a difficult topic. It is complicated by both the clinician's and patient's belief systems, which are frequently heavily influenced by cultural and religious upbringing. ...
Michael D Adolph,Kimberly A Frier,Stanislaw Pa Stawicki et al.
Michael D Adolph et al.
Pain relief and palliative care play an increasingly important role in the overall approach to critically ill and injured patients. Despite significant progress in clinical patient care, our understanding of death and the dying process rema...
Thomas J Papadimos,Yasdet Maldonado,Ravi S Tripathi et al.
Thomas J Papadimos et al.
The population of the earth is aging, and as medical techniques, pharmaceuticals, and devices push the boundaries of human physiological capabilities, more humans will go on to live longer. However, this prolonged existence may involve inca...
Advance directives in the trauma intensive care unit: Do they really matter? [0.03%]
创伤重症监护室的预立指令书真的重要吗？
Stephanie Gordy,Eran Klein
Stephanie Gordy
Despite advances in the care of the injured patient, 22% of trauma patients admitted to the intensive care unit will die from their injuries. As a majority of these deaths will occur due to withdrawal of care, intensivists should be profici...
Rebecca Coffey,Sherman Everett,Sidney Miller et al.
Rebecca Coffey et al.
The issues related to end of life decisions and mortality in the intensive care unit are common occurrences for the nursing staff. For the Critical Care/Burn nurse, issues such as who should be resuscitated, what are the end points of treat...
Thomas J Papadimos,Stanislaw Pa Stawicki
Thomas J Papadimos
Medical practice and the field of humanities frequently intersect. It is uncanny how problems presented or described in literature that are several hundred years old still present themselves to us on a regular basis. Often, our answers to t...