1 Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences (FMBS), University of Yaoundé 1, Yaoundé, Cameroon. 2 Douala General Hospital, Douala, Cameroon. 3 Faculty of Medicine and Pharmaceutical Sciences (FMSP), ...

Case Presentation: A 37-year-old man with no known medical history presented to a pharmacy with agitation and severe chest pain radiating to the back. At 16:00, he experienced a witnessed cardiac ...

The SOFA-2 score included new definitions, new variables, and revised thresholds to categorize the severity of organ dysfunction in critical illness. The updates reflected changes in practice, ...

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is globally the third leading cause of death, causing 3.23 million deaths in 2019. Most feasible way to measure oxygen saturation is by pulse oximetry ...

Exposure to hyperoxia, a high arterial partial pressure of oxygen (PaO2), may be associated with worse outcomes in patients receiving extracorporeal membrane oxygenator (ECMO) support. We examined ...

Oxygen is a vital element for human life, and lack of it leads to death in just a few minutes. A condition where the respiratory system fails in one or both of its gas exchange functions (oxygenation ...

In medicine, hypoxia is a condition in which the human body tissues are not oxygenated sufficiently to maintain adequate homeostasis, resulting from inadequate oxygen delivery to the tissues due to ...

Background Patients (pts) with severe hepatopulmonary syndrome (HPS) awaiting liver transplantation (LT) have reduced exercise capacity and progressive physical frailty due to brittle platypnea and ...

Near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) measurement of regional cerebral tissue oxygen saturation (rcStO2) has become a topic of high interest in neonatology. Multiple studies have demonstrated that rcStO2 ...

This prospective and observational study was conducted in a 24-bed ICU of a French university hospital between March 2019 and July 2020 for non COVID-19 patients and in the first pandemic wave ...

Perhaps the most feared consequence of COVID-19 infection is the development of severe disease which may lead to intensive care unit (ICU) admission. As shown in Hu et al. systematic review and meta ...