Objective To assess the diagnostic accuracy of peripheral capillary oxygen saturation (SpO 2) while breathing room air for 5 min (the ‘Air-Test’) in detecting postoperative atelectasis. Design ...

When working in an acute care ward, you face this dilemma almost every day. Should you make a decision based solely on vitals, wait for a doctor's order, or proceed based on your own assessment? In ...

We read with great interest the article titled “Use of high-dose steroid therapy: addition of anakinra in the treatment of severe COVID-19,” recently published in your journal 1. The study clearly ...

Literature on the anesthetic management of endovascular treatment of acute ischemic stroke (AIS) is limited. Anesthetic management during these procedures is still mostly dependent on individual or ...

Objective High-flow nasal cannula (HFNC) therapy is increasingly used in preterm infants despite a paucity of physiological studies. We aimed to investigate the effects of HFNC on respiratory ...

Extracellular vesicles derived from mesenchymal stem cells (MSC-EVs) have biocompatibility and low immunogenicity. They can effectively mediate intercellular communication by transmitting various ...

When compared with liberal oxygen therapy, conservative oxygen therapy did not improve rates of survival with favorable functional outcomes among unresponsive patients in the intensive care unit (ICU) ...

3 School of Engineering and ICT, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia 4 School of Medicine, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia Objective To assess the performance of a ...