Publications by authors named "F Gordo"
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- Over the last decade, research has focused on how mechanical power contributes to ventilation-induced lung injury and its potential link to ICU mortality, but most studies have only looked at early mechanical ventilation data.
- This study analyzed mechanical power in patients ventilated for over 24 hours in a Spanish ICU, determining how prolonged exposure to high mechanical power impacts mortality rates and hospital stay duration.
- Researchers established that a mechanical power threshold of 18 J/min significantly correlates with increased ICU mortality; specifically, the risk of death rises by 0.1% for each additional hour patients are ventilated above this threshold.
is a ciliated protist that can cause dysentery in humans, pigs and nonhuman primates and may have the potential for zoonotic transmission. Its diagnosis is routinely performed through conventional parasitological techniques, and few studies have used culturing techniques to isolate it, applying molecular tools for the characterization of this protozoan. Thus, the objective of this study was to confirm diagnosis using molecular tools and to characterize the genetic variants of this parasite isolated from pigs kept on family farms in Brazil using three different culture media that differed in the serum added.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: Our aims were to explore current intubation practices in Spanish ICUs to determine the incidence and risk factors of peri-intubation complications (primary outcome measure: major adverse events), the rate and factors associated with first-pass success, and their impact on mortality as well as the changes of the intubation procedure observed in the COVID-19 pandemic.
Design: Prospective, observational, and cohort study.
Setting: Forty-three Spanish ICU.
Background: Survivors of critical illness are frequently left with a long-lasting disability. We hypothesised that patients who developed delirium during ICU stay, compared with patients who did not, would have worse health-related quality of life following a critical illness.
Methods: Prospective longitudinal observational and analytical study assessing functional independence, frailty and perceived quality of life measured with the Barthel Index, the Clinical Frailty Scale, and the SF-36, comparing patients who developed delirium during ICU stay and patients who did not.
Community-acquired pneumonia represents the third-highest cause of mortality in industrialized countries and the first due to infection. Although guidelines for the approach to this infection model are widely implemented in international health schemes, information continually emerges that generates controversy or requires updating its management. This paper reviews the most important issues in the approach to this process, such as an aetiologic update using new molecular platforms or imaging techniques, including the diagnostic stewardship in different clinical settings.
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