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Background: Diarrhoeal diseases claim more than 1 million lives annually and are a leading cause of death in children younger than 5 years. Comprehensive global estimates of the diarrhoeal disease burden for specific age groups of children younger than 5 years are scarce, and the burden in children older than 5 years and in adults is also understudied. We used results from the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2021 to assess the burden of, and trends in, diarrhoeal diseases overall and attributable to 13 pathogens, as well as the contributions of associated risk factors, in children and adults in 204 countries and territories from 1990 to 2021.
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December 2024
Biomedical Ethics Research Program, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN.
Objectives: To assess hospitals' plans for implementing Minnesota's statewide guidance for allocating scarce critical care resources during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Patients And Methods: Individuals from 23 hospitals across Minnesota were invited to complete a 25-item survey between July 20, 2020, and September 18, 2020 to understand how hospitals in the state intended to operationalize statewide clinical triage instructions for scarce resources (including mechanical ventilation) and written ethics guidance on the allocation of critical care resources in the event crisis standards of care triggered triage.
Results: Of individuals invited from 23 hospitals, 14 hospitals completed the survey (60.
Intensive Care Med Exp
December 2024
Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine, University Health Network, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Background: Sepsis is a condition with high mortality and morbidity, characterized by deregulation of the immune response against the pathogen. Current treatment strategies rely mainly on antibiotics and supportive care. However, there is growing interest in exploring cell-based therapies as complementary approaches.
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