Publications by authors named "L R Jacquemet"
Introduction: Awake prone positioning (PP) reduces need for intubation for patients with COVID-19 with acute respiratory failure. We investigated the hemodynamic effects of awake PP in non-ventilated subjects with COVID-19 acute respiratory failure.
Methods: We conducted a single-center prospective cohort study.
Article Synopsis
- Cardiovascular issues have been recognized as significant problems in COVID-19 patients, contributing to worse outcomes.
- Proper medical treatments can manage most heart-related symptoms, while severe cases of cardiogenic shock may require advanced support like veno-arterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (VA-ECMO).
- The document describes a specific case of a patient suffering from heart injury due to COVID-19, who was treated successfully with VA-ECMO after experiencing severe heart dysfunction.
A homogeneous series of 32 cases of pectus excavatum were treated by Jung's method of reversal of the breast-plate pedicle. Operation was usually performed at about puberty. The mortality is nill for this technique, which is simple and which, for a low morbidity, provides good functional and esthetic results in 87% of cases.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF[Interest of the local regional anesthesia in lumbar sympathectomy (author's transl)].
Acta Chir Belg
January 1977
Authors report 163 cases of lumbar sympathectomy they did under local anesthesia from 1968 to 1975. All were older--and poor risk patients. Approach was always lumbar with resection of distal part of the 12th rib.
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