Publications by authors named "M Thyrault"
Tracheostomy cannula care is of paramount importance in the daily management of tracheotomized patients. While some complications are commonplace, specific events can occur, often according to type of cannula. We herein report the case of a 71-year-old patient; following a lengthy stay in the intensive care unit, she had received a Safe T-Tube cannula designed to provide support in a stenotic trachea.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Group A Streptococcus is responsible for severe and potentially lethal invasive conditions requiring intensive care unit (ICU) admission, such as streptococcal toxic shock-like syndrome (STSS). A rebound of invasive group A streptococcal (iGAS) infection after COVID-19-associated barrier measures has been observed in children. Several intensivists of French adult ICUs have reported similar bedside impressions without objective data.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Leptospirosis is a worldwide zoonosis responsible for highly diverse clinical presentations with a wide range of severity. Variable environment exposures to infected urines of rodents have been described.
Observation: We report five cases of serologically confirmed leptospirosis leading to hospitalization in an intensive care unit (ICU) of a French center.
Article Synopsis
- This study aimed to understand the outcomes of patients with severe meningoencephalitis in intensive care, analyzing data from 599 adults across 68 medical centers in 7 countries from 2017 to 2020.
- Results showed that more than half of the patients (50.5%) had poor functional outcomes at three months, with 25.8% resulting in death; causes of meningoencephalitis were varied, with acute bacterial meningitis being the most common.
- Key factors linked to worse outcomes included being older than 60, having a weakened immune system, delays in ICU admission, and severe neurological impairments, highlighting the need for timely care and monitoring.
Introduction: Aspergillusfumigatus can cause a systemic infection called invasive aspergillosis causing pulmonary and extra-pulmonary damage. Aspergillus endocarditis (AE) is a relatively rare disease but can be life-threatening.
Case Reports: We report here on five cases of endocarditis due to invasive aspergillosis: a 58-year-old man receiving immunosuppressive medication following a kidney graft, a 58-year-old man undergoing chemotherapy for chronic lymphocytic leukaemia, a 55-year-old man receiving corticosteroids for IgA vasculitis, a 52-year-old HIV-infected woman under no specific treatment and a 17-year-old boy under immunosuppressive therapy for auto-immune chronic neutropenia.