Publications by authors named "Mitsuhito Soh"
Emergency physicians perform endotracheal intubations for patients with COVID-19. However, the trends in the intubation for COVID-19 patients in terms of success rate, complications, personal protective equipment (PPE) information, barrier enclosure use, and its transition have not been established. We conducted a retrospective study of COVID-19 cases that required tracheal intubation at four hospitals in the Tokyo metropolitan area between January 2020 and August 2021.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe report the case of a 71-year-old woman in whom cerebral air embolism resulted from blunt chest trauma. The woman had been lying on her left side for a while after the injury, and air traveled to the right side of the brain. As a result, a cerebral infarction occurred in the right cerebral hemisphere that caused loss of consciousness for more than 40 days.
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- Stanford type A aortic dissection (SAAD) is a serious condition often characterized by severe chest or back pain, but this case presents a rare instance where the patient initially experienced migraine with aura instead of typical symptoms.* -
- A 35-year-old male taxi driver, with a history of migraines, arrived at the emergency department with a headache he thought was a migraine, but further tests revealed severe aortic regurgitation and signs of SAAD.* -
- The patient was diagnosed with Marfan syndrome and underwent surgery for aortic root replacement, highlighting that migraine sufferers, especially those with Marfan-like features, should be evaluated for cardiovascular issues.*
Importance: Postintensive care syndrome has a strong impact on coronavirus disease 2019 survivors.
Objectives: Assess the 1-year prevalence of postintensive care syndrome after coronavirus disease 2019.
Design Setting And Participants: This was a single-center prospective cohort using questionnaires and telephone calls from 4 months to 1 year after ICU discharge.
Status epilepticus (SE) is a life-threatening medical and neurological emergency. Prompt recognition and treatment are essential to stop the seizure and improve patient outcomes. To elucidate which benzodiazepine should be used as the first-line treatment, a systemic search of the PubMed, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, and Igaku Chuo Zasshi databases was carried out to identify randomized controlled trials (RCTs) comparing i.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Severe respiratory failure patients with coronavirus disease (COVID-19) sometimes do not receive post-intensive care syndrome prevention bundles. No detailed report has been published on the practical observations of mental impairments in these patients.
Case Presentation: A 33-year-old man was admitted with COVID-19 pneumonia.
We report the first two cases of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) who were receiving intensive care including favipiravir, and were clinically diagnosed with neuroleptic malignant syndrome (NMS) to focus attention on NMS in COVID-19 management. Case 1: A 46-year-old-man with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) caused by COVID-19 infection was being administered favipiravir. Fentanyl, propofol, and rocuronium were also given.
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