Diagnostics and treatment of children with acute seizures on paediatric intensive care unit.

218 children were admitted to paediatric clinic for acute seizures within last 5 years. Out of them, 14 children (7%) were admitted to paediatric intensive care unit (PICU) with repeated or prolonged seizures. Two children were hospitalized twice.

Endobronchial stenting on VV-ECMO in a 6-month-old girl with right lung agenesis and severe stenosis of the left main bronchus.

Introduction: Lung agenesis is a rare disorder with a variable, but potentially very bad clinical course. It necessitates complex clinical management, especially in life-threatening situations.

Case Report: We describe a case of a 6-month-old girl with right lung agenesis who required venovenous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (VV-ECMO) due to pneumonia complicated by exacerbated previously diagnosed left main bronchus stenosis.

Management of severe pulmonary hemorrhage in a neonate on veno-arterial ECMO by the temporary clamping of the endotracheal tube - a case report.

Severe pulmonary hemorrhage in the newborn is an infrequent, but life-threatening, event. A newborn with persistent pulmonary hypertension and a large persistent ductus arteriosus and open foramen ovale presented with hypoxemia and progressive right heart failure shortly after birth, requiring veno-arterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) support. Twenty minutes after the initiation of ECMO, the patient developed severe pulmonary hemorrhage refractory to conventional treatment.

Effects of high tidal volume mechanical ventilation on production of cytokines, iNOS, and MIP-1β proteins in pigs.

The aim of this study was to investigate longitudinal changes of the pulmonary inflammatory process as a result of mechanical stress due to mechanical ventilation. The concentrations of IL-8, TNF-α, MIP-1β, nitrites/nitrates, and inducible nitric oxide synthases (iNOS) were investigated indicate in bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL). Twenty-three piglets were divided into three groups.