Association of socioeconomic deprivation with outcomes in critically ill adult patients: an observational prospective multicenter cohort study.

Background: The influence of socioeconomic deprivation on health inequalities is established, but its effect on critically ill patients remains unclear, due to inconsistent definitions in previous studies.

Methods: Prospective multicenter cohort study conducted from March to June 2018 in eight ICUs in the Greater Paris area. All admitted patients aged ≥ 18 years were enrolled.

Interstitial lung disease-related pneumomediastinum in COVID-19 patients.

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Hemodynamic efficiency of hemodialysis treatment with high cut-off membrane during the early period of post-resuscitation shock: The HYPERDIA trial.

Background: After resuscitation of cardiac arrest (CA), an acute circulatory failure occurs in about 50% of cases, which shares many characteristics with septic shock. Most frequently, supportive treatments are poorly efficient to prevent multiple organ failure and death. We evaluated whether an early plasma removal of inflammatory mediators using high cut-off continuous veno-venous hemodialysis (HCO-CVVHD) could improve hemodynamic status and outcome of these patients.

Usefulness of early plasma S-100B protein and Neuron-Specific Enolase measurements to identify cerebrovascular etiology of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.

Background: While S-100B protein and Neuron-Specific Enolase (NSE) dosages have been extensively investigated for neurological prognostication after cardiac arrest (CA), there is no data about their ability to detect a cerebrovascular cause of CA. We assessed the utility of plasma S-100B protein and NSE measurements for early diagnosis of primary neurological cause in resuscitated CA patients.

Patients And Methods: Case control study based on two prospectively acquired CA databases.

Etiological diagnoses of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest survivors admitted to the intensive care unit: Insights from a French registry.

Background: Respective proportions of final etiologies are disparate in cohorts of cardiac arrest patients, depending on examined population and diagnostic algorithms. In particular, prevalence and characteristics of sudden unexplained death syndrome (SUDS) are debated. We aimed at describing etiologies in a large cohort of aborted out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) patients, in order to assess prevalence and outcome of SUDS.

Predictors of long-term functional outcome and health-related quality of life after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.

Background: Even if a large majority of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) survivors appear to have a good neurological recovery with no important sequellae, whether health-related quality of life (HRQOL) is altered is less explored.

Patients And Methods: HRQOL was evaluated by telephone interview using SF-36 questionnaire. Each OHCA case was age and gender-matched with 4 controls from the French general population.

Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest from brain cause: epidemiology, clinical features, and outcome in a multicenter cohort*.

Objectives: Although sudden cardiac death has been broadly studied, little is known on cerebrovascular events revealed by out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. We aimed to describe clinical features and prognosis of these patients and identify characteristics that could suggest a cerebrovascular etiology of the out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.

Design: Retrospective review (1999-2012) of databases of three regional referral ICU centers for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.

Pain monitoring in anesthetized children: first assessment of skin conductance and analgesia-nociception index at different infusion rates of remifentanil.

Background: Analgesia and nociception can not be specifically monitored during general anesthesia. Movement of the patient or hemodynamic variations are usually considered as symptoms of insufficient analgesia. The measure of skin conductance (SC) allows an assessment of peripheral sympathetic activity.