Publications by authors named "L Bissoni"

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  • The trauma mortality rate is higher in elderly patients due to age-related physiological changes and frailty, necessitating specialized management guidelines to improve outcomes and minimize unnecessary procedures.
  • Expert surgeons reviewed literature and developed evidence-based recommendations for geriatric trauma care, focusing on frailty assessment, early activation of trauma protocols, and multimodal pain management.
  • Key practices include administering antibiotics selectively for certain traumatic injuries, ensuring timely venous thromboembolism prevention, and involving palliative care teams to address end-of-life discussions with a holistic approach.
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The introduction of pathways to enrol deceased donors after cardio-circulatory confirmation of death (donation after circulatory death, DCD) is expanding in many countries to face the shortage of organs for transplantation. The implementation of normothermic regional reperfusion (NRP) with warm oxygenated blood is a strategy to manage in-situ the organs of DCD donors. This approach, an alternative to in-situ cold preservation, and followed by prompt retrieval and cold static storage and/or ex-vivo machine perfusion (EVMP), could be limited to abdominal organs (A-NRP) or extended to the thorax (thoraco-abdominal, TA-NRP.

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Background: Trauma is a leading cause of death and disability. Patients with trauma undergoing invasive mechanical ventilation (IMV) are at risk for ventilator-associated events (VAEs) potentially associated with a longer duration of IMV and increased stay in the intensive care unit (ICU).

Methods: We conducted a retrospective cohort study aimed to evaluate the incidence of infection-related ventilator-associated complications (IVACs), possible ventilator-associated pneumonia (PVAP), and their characteristics among patients experiencing severe trauma that required ICU admission and IMV for at least four days.

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