Incidence and Factors Associated with Burnout in Anesthesiology: A Systematic Review.

Background: Burnout syndrome has reached epidemic levels among physicians (reported around 50%). Anesthesiology is among the most stressful medical disciplines but there is paucity of literature as compared with others. Analysis of burnout is essential because it is associated with safety and quality of care.

A perioperative uncontrollable bleeding in an elderly patient with acquired hemophilia A: a case report.

Acquired hemophilia A should be taken into account in the differential diagnosis of perioperative bleeding in patients without any apparent reason for activated partial thromboplastin time prolongation.

Procalcitonin as a marker of Candida species detection by blood culture and polymerase chain reaction in septic patients.

Background: The aim of our study is to test procalcitonin (PCT) as surrogate marker of identification of Candida spp. by blood culture (BC) and real-time-polymerase chain reaction (PCR), whether alone or in association with bacteria, in septic patients.

Methods: We performed a single-centre retrospective study.

Neutrophil CD64 as a marker of infection in patients admitted to the emergency department with acute respiratory failure.

Introduction: Cluster of differentiation 64 (CD64) is expressed on neutrophils during bacterial infections and sepsis. The aim of our study was to assess the CD64 expression in patients admitted to the emergency department (ED) with a triage diagnosis of acute respiratory failure (ARF) and/or dyspnea and to verify a relationship between its value and the presence of infection.

Methods: We assessed neutrophil CD64 expression in peripheral blood of patients admitted to the ED with a diagnosis of ARF and/or dyspnea from September 2012 to April 2013.

An atypical case of taravana syndrome in a breath-hold underwater fishing champion: a case report.

Dysbaric accidents are usually referred to compressed air-supplied diving. Nonetheless, some cases of decompression illness are known to have occurred among breath-hold (BH) divers also, and they are reported in the medical literature. A male BH diver (57 years old), underwater fishing champion, presented neurological disorders as dizziness, sensory numbness, blurred vision, and left frontoparietal pain after many dives to a 30-35 meters sea water depth with short surface intervals.