Experiences with remote communication in adult intensive care units during the COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic review protocol.

Objective: The objective of this review is to explore the lived experiences of critically ill adults, their families, or health care professionals with remote communication in intensive care units (ICUs) during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Introduction: Family visiting restrictions in ICUs during the COVID-19 pandemic imposed significant challenges to communication between critically ill adults, their families, and the health care team. Evidence shows that several communication strategies were developed and implemented in ICUs during the COVID-19 pandemic to promote family engagement; however, the experiences of critically ill adults, their families, and health care professionals with these strategies are scattered across primary qualitative studies.

Effectiveness of Caregiver-Provided Individual Cognitive Interventions in Older Adults with Dementia.

Background: In a society increasingly committed to promoting an active life in the community, new resources are needed to respond to the needs of citizens with Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia. The potential of several individual cognitive interventions to be provided by caregivers has been explored in the literature.

Objective: To synthesize the best available evidence on the effectiveness of caregiver-provided individual cognitive interventions in older adults with dementia.

eHealth Platforms to Promote Autonomous Life and Active Aging: A Scoping Review.

New technologies, namely eHealth platforms, are being used more than ever before. These platforms enable older people to have a more independent lifestyle, enhance their participation, and improve their well-being. Information and communication technologies are expected to be linked to the triad of aging, social inclusion, and active participation, which is in line with the implementation of Smart Healthy and Age-Friendly Environments.

Normative data for TM electrocochleography measures.

Objective: Establish normative data for tympanic electrocochleography (TM ECochG) parameters in normal hearing adults without Ménière's disease's (MD) symptoms. Describe TM ECochG variables that help to distinguish normal from MD ears.

Material And Methods: We enrolled 100 subjects (N = 200 ears), 59 females, aged between 19 and 71 years from 09/2010 to 04/2014.

Incremental value of myocardial perfusion over regional left ventricular function and coronary stenosis by cardiac CT for the detection of acute coronary syndromes in high-risk patients: a subgroup analysis of the ROMICAT trial.

Objectives: To determine the incremental benefit of assessing myocardial perfusion defects (MPD) for acute coronary syndromes (ACS) over coronary and functional assessment by rest cardiac computed tomography (CT) in patients with acute chest pain.

Background: Assessment of myocardial perfusion is feasible with cardiac CT; however, the diagnostic value of this assessment in patients at risk for ACS has not been demonstrated.

Methods: The study included patients who presented to the emergency department with acute chest pain, nonischemic initial electrocardiogram (ECG), and negative cardiac biomarkers but had clinical suspicion for ACS and underwent invasive coronary angiography (ICA).

Quantification of coronary stenosis by dual source computed tomography in patients: a comparative study with intravascular ultrasound and invasive angiography.

Objective: To determine the accuracy of dual-source CT (DSCT) to quantify coronary stenosis compared to intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) and quantitative coronary angiography (QCA).

Methods: 21 patients (23 vessels) were examined with DSCT, IVUS and invasive coronary angiography. Coronary minimal luminal diameter (MLD) and area (MLA) were measured in cross-sectional multi-planar reformatted images perpendicular to the vessel long-axis.

[Pulmonary hypertension associated with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome: presentation of five cases and review of the literature].

Several cardiorespiratory diseases may complicate the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. Pulmonary hypertension is a rare clinical disorder with a poor prognosis. We describe this syndrome in five patients seen at our service who presented infection with the acquired immunodeficiency virus, and we review the literature.

Adenosine-induced stress myocardial perfusion imaging using dual-source cardiac computed tomography.

Objectives: This study sought to determine the feasibility of performing a comprehensive cardiac computed tomographic (CT) examination incorporating stress and rest myocardial perfusion imaging together with coronary computed tomography angiography (CTA).

Background: Although cardiac CT can identify coronary stenosis, very little data exist on the ability to detect stress-induced myocardial perfusion defects in humans.

Methods: Thirty-four patients who had a nuclear stress test and invasive angiography were included in the study.

Assessment of nonstenotic coronary lesions by 64-slice multidetector computed tomography in comparison to intravascular ultrasound: evaluation of nonculprit coronary lesions.

Background: Multidetector computed tomography (MDCT) has recently emerged as a potential noninvasive alternative for high-resolution imaging of coronary arteries.

Objective: In this study, we evaluated 64-slice MDCT for detection, quantification, and characterization of atherosclerotic plaque burden in nonculprit lesions.

Methods: Data from 11 patients who underwent both MDCT and intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) for suspected coronary artery disease were collected, and a total of 17 coronary segments and 122 cross-sectional slices were analyzed by MDCT and IVUS.

Diffusion imaging may predict reversible brain lesions in eclampsia and severe preeclampsia: initial experience.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to validate diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging in the prediction of the evolutive course of brain edema and to establish its pathophysiologic presence in patients with eclampsia/severe preeclampsia.

Study Design: Seventeen patients with a clinical diagnosis of severe eclampsia/preeclampsia and T2 hyperintense brain lesions on routine magnetic resonance imaging were evaluated at hospital admission and 8 weeks later.

Results: Brain edema was reversible in 13 patients and irreversible in 4 patients, as indicated on follow-up magnetic resonance imaging.