Hospital Resources May Be an Important Aspect of Mortality Rate among Critically Ill Patients with COVID-19: The Paradigm of Greece.

For critically ill patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) who require intensive care unit (ICU) admission, extremely high mortality rates (even 97%) have been reported. We hypothesized that overburdened hospital resources by the extent of the pandemic rather than the disease per se might play an important role on unfavorable prognosis. We sought to determine the outcome of such patients admitted to the general ICUs of a hospital with sufficient resources.

Epidemiology, risk factors for and outcome of candidaemia among non-neutropenic patients in a Greek intensive care unit.

To determine the epidemiology, risk factors for and outcome of candidaemia in critically ill patients, a matched case-control study was performed in a 25-bed intensive care unit (ICU) from August 2004 to January 2006. Candidaemia occurred in 33 patients; each patient was matched to four controls according to admission illness severity, diagnostic category and length of ICU stay. Candida non-albicans species predominated (67.

Differential cardiovascular responses during weaning failure: effects on tissue oxygenation and lactate.

Objective: To test the following two hypotheses during weaning failure: (a) mixed venous oxygen saturation (SvO2) does not decrease in patients whose oxygen consumption does not increase, and (b) blood lactate may increase in patients who demonstrate substantial decreases in SvO2.

Design And Setting: A prospective observational and physiological study in a 30-bed university intensive care unit.

Patients And Participants: 18 patients who failed weaning and 12 patients who succeeded weaning (controls).

Airway obstruction and acute respiratory failure due to Aspergillus tracheobronchitis.

Objective: To report a patient with lymphoma who developed Aspergillus tracheobronchitis resulting in airway obstruction and acute respiratory failure.

Design: Case report.

Setting: Intensive care unit of a tertiary care hospital.