Publications by authors named "Lukasz R Nowak"
Article Synopsis
- A study was conducted to evaluate if the tendency to limit life-sustaining treatment (LST) among elderly patients in Poland increased from 2016-2017 to 2018-2019.
- The research involved analyzing data from two cohorts of critically ill patients aged over 80, finding that the prevalence of LST limitations rose from 16.1% to 20.5% over the years.
- Although the increase wasn't statistically significant in basic analyses, further investigation showed a stronger inclination to limit LST in the later cohort, along with higher mortality and longer hospital stays for patients with LST limitations.
Background: The increasing population of very old intensive care patients (VIPs) is a major challenge currently faced by clinicians and policymakers. Reliable indicators of VIPs' prognosis and purposefulness of their admission to the intensive care unit (ICU) are urgently needed.
Methods: This is a report from the Polish sample of the VIP1 multicentre cohort study (NCT03134807).
Background: Horner syndrome is a rare but likely underdiagnosed complication of internal jugular vein cannulation.
Case Report: We present a case of a young woman undergoing chemotherapy for gestational trophoblastic disease for whom venous port implantation was attempted due to poor peripheral vein access. Despite ultrasound guidance, the procedure was unsuccessful and complicated by a local haematoma, causing compression of the sympathetic nerves with Horner syndrome.
On the Incidence of Stroke Following Antiplatelet/Anithrombotic Drug Cessation.
J Neurosurg Anesthesiol
October 2015
In the present study we have evaluated the effect of a single hemodialysis session on the brain-derived neurotrophic factor levels in plasma [BDNF](pl) and in serum [BDNF](s) as well as on the plasma isoprostanes concentration [F(2) isoprostanes](pl), plasma total antioxidant capacity (TAC) and plasma cortisol levels in chronic kidney disease patients. Twenty male patients (age 69.8 ± 2.
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