Publications by authors named "Angel O Coz Yataco"
Article Synopsis
- Blood products, specifically RBC transfusions, are commonly used in critically ill patients, prompting a detailed review of current practices and evidence to guide healthcare providers.
- A panel of experts evaluated existing literature and developed specific questions regarding RBC transfusions, ultimately analyzing 23 key studies to form strong and conditional recommendations.
- Overall, a restrictive transfusion strategy was found to be safer for most critically ill patients, decreasing RBC use without raising the risk of death or complications; however, it may not be suitable for patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS).
Sepsis causes more than a quarter million deaths among hospitalized adults in the United States each year. Although most cases of sepsis are present on admission, up to one-quarter of patients with sepsis develop this highly morbid and mortal condition while hospitalized. Compared with patients with community-onset sepsis (COS), patients with hospital-onset sepsis (HOS) are twice as likely to require mechanical ventilation and ICU admission, have more than two times longer ICU and hospital length of stay, accrue five times higher hospital costs, and are twice as likely to die.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Bronchodilation testing is an important component of spirometry testing, and omitting this procedure has potential clinical implications toward diagnosing respiratory diseases. We aimed to estimate the impact of bronchodilator testing in accurately diagnosing COPD and differentiating COPD from asthma-COPD overlap (ACO).
Methods: The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey data were analyzed from 2007-2012.