Publications by authors named "Tumay Cakir"

Objective: Vaccination against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-2) prevents the development of serious diseases has been shown in many studies. However, the effect of vaccination on outcomes in COVID-19 patients requiring intensive care is not clear.

Methods: This is a retrospective multicenter study conducted in 17 intensive care unit (ICU) in Turkey between January 1, 2021, and December 31, 2021.

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Objectives: Malnutrition is a clinical condition that is frequently seen in critically ill patients in the intensive care unit (ICU). Although there are many scoring systems and tools used to determine nutritional risk, those that can be used in critically ill patients in the ICU are very few. The scoring systems used are insufficient to identify ICU patients with malnutrition or at risk.

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Subjective: Skeletal muscle indexes are known to be one of the important prognostic indicators in many clinical situations. This study aims to evaluate the effects of laboratory values and muscle mass measures such as skeletal muscle area (SMA), skeletal muscle index (SMI), skeletal muscle density (SMD) and skeletal muscle gauge (SMG) obtained from the 12th thoracic vertebra (T12) level of patients hospitalized for COVID-19 infection on prognosis.

Methods: The patients' age, comorbidity index (CCI) scores, gender, anthropometric criteria such as height, weight, and BMI, laboratory values, development of NIMV and IC need during follow-up, length of hospital stay, and hospital mortality were retrospectively screened.

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Opsoclonus-myoclonus syndrome is a rare disease and traditionally described as "dancing eyes, dancing feet syndrome." It is characterized by opsoclonus (oscillations of the eyes in either horizontally or vertically) and myoclonus (spontaneous jerky movements of the limbs and trunk). There are numerous etiological factors defined such as paraneoplastic, para-infectious, toxic-metabolic, and idiopathic causes.

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Synopsis of recent research by authors named "Tumay Cakir"

  • - Tumay Cakir's research primarily focuses on critical aspects of patient care in intensive care units (ICUs), especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, with studies evaluating the effects of vaccination status on patient outcomes and the role of muscle mass in predicting prognosis.
  • - Recent publications include a multicenter national study in Turkey assessing COVID-19 patients in ICUs to determine the impact of vaccination amidst a heterologous vaccination policy, revealing critical insights on vaccination effectiveness.
  • - Cakir also explores nutritional risks in critically ill patients by investigating muscle thickness and the prognostic value of skeletal muscle measurements, addressing the gaps in existing nutritional assessment tools in ICUs.