COVID-19 related ICU admissions in paediatric and young adult patients in Australia: a national case series 2020-2022.

Background: COVID-19 pandemic research efforts have focused on disease phenotypes in adults. A distinct spectrum of illness has been documented in paediatric populations. We aimed to review paediatric intensive care unit (ICU) admissions in Australia, across differing variant predominant phases of the pandemic.

Survival and left ventricular dysfunction post lung transplantation for pulmonary arterial hypertension.

Purpose: Bilateral lung transplantation for end-stage pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is traditionally associated with higher early post-transplant mortality when compared with other indications. Changes in perioperative management, including the growing use of perioperative extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) and an increased awareness of postoperative left ventricular dysfunction (LVD), have resulted in outcomes that are uncertain.

Materials And Methods: We conducted a single-center, retrospective observational study at a lung transplantation center in Melbourne, Australia, from 2006 to 2019.

Clinical characteristics and outcomes of critically ill patients with one, two and three doses of vaccination against COVID-19 in Australia.

Background: Vaccination has been shown to be highly effective in preventing death and severe disease from severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection. Currently, few studies have directly compared vaccinated and unvaccinated patients with severe COVID-19 in the intensive care unit (ICU).

Aims: To compare the clinical characteristics and outcomes of vaccine recipients and unvaccinated patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection admitted to the ICU in a nationwide setting.