Erratum: Non-invasive ventilation in bronchiolitis: Analysis according to a chronologic classification.

[This corrects the article DOI: 10.3233/PIC-12032.].

Non-invasive ventilation in bronchiolitis: Analysis according to a chronologic classification.

To study patients diagnosed with bronchiolitis receiving ventilatory support with non-invasive ventilation (NIV) according to a chronologic classification: initial support (i-NIV), rescue post-extubation (r-NIV) and elective post-extubation (e-NIV); and to identify predictive factors of failure for each group. Prospective observational study (January 2004-December 2009), including all the patients with bronchiolitis admitted to pediatric intensive care unit and receiving ventilatory support with NIV. Clinical data collected at 0 (pre-NIV), 1, 2, 8, 12, 24 h of treatment were analyzed.

Osteometric sex discrimination from the sternal extremity of the fourth rib in a recent forensic sample from Southwestern Spain.

The discrimination of sex is central to the process of establishing a personal identification from human skeletal remains. Previous study has demonstrated that osteometric analysis of the sternal extremity of the fourth rib provides a reasonably accurate method for assessing this biological attribute in diverse human groups. As metric standards are generally population-specific, the purpose of the current research was to evaluate the degree of sexual dimorphism present in the fourth rib among contemporary Spaniards, a group thus far not investigated, and generate discriminant function equations which can be used to estimate the sex of unidentified remains in this population.

Procalcitonin: a useful biomarker to discriminate infection after cardiopulmonary bypass in children.

Objective: To determine whether procalcitonin discriminates between postcardiopulmonary bypass inflammatory syndrome and infectious complication in children better than does C-reactive protein.

Design: Prospective study of children admitted to the intensive care unit after cardiopulmonary bypass.

Patients: Classified according to a diagnosis of systemic inflammatory response syndrome and bacterial infection or systemic inflammatory response syndrome but no bacterial infection.

Specific characteristics of sudden death in a mediterranean Spanish population.

Most of the data reported on sudden cardiac death has been from studies of Anglo-Saxon patients. We conducted a study to ascertain the relation between sudden death (SD) and some epidemiologic, clinical, and biochemical parameters and to assess the coronary histopathologic aspects of subjects in a Spanish population who had died suddenly. A total of 204 subjects (86% men), aged 12 to 80 years (mean 54 ± 15), who had died from out-of-hospital natural SD were evaluated.

Cocaine-related sudden death: a prospective investigation in south-west Spain.

Aims: With an estimated 12 million consumers in Europe, cocaine (COC) is the illicit drug leading to the most emergency department visits. The aim of this study was to examine a consecutive series of sudden deaths (SDs) to focus on the prevalence, the toxicological characteristics, and the causes of death in COC-related fatalities.

Methods And Results: Prospective case-control study of forensic autopsies was carried out in the time interval November 2003 to June 2006 at the Institute of Legal Medicine, Seville, south-west Spain, with a reference population of 1 875 462 inhabitants.

Pulmonary embolism and sudden-unexpected death: prospective study on 2477 forensic autopsies performed at the Institute of Legal Medicine in Seville.

Pulmonary embolism (PE) and deep venous thrombosis (DVT) are clinical manifestations of the same entity, venous thromboembolic disease (VTD). In approximately 25% of patients, the first manifestation of PE is sudden-unexpected death. We carried out a prospective study at the forensic pathology service of the Institute of Legal Medicine in Seville with the aim to know the incidence of PE as well as to describe the epidemiological, pathological and clinical characteristics of these deaths and associated risk factors.

Commotio cordis as a result of a fight: report of a case considered to be imprudent homicide.

Commotio cordis is a clinic-pathological syndrome related to sudden death in young people involved in sports activities. It has been described, mainly, in athletes without previous cardiac anomalies who received a minor blow to the chest which produces ventricular fibrillation and cardiac arrest in the absence of structural damage to the ribs, sternum, or heart. There are few reported cases of commotio cordis associated with violent, non-sports related actions, which are commonly considered to be imprudent homicides.