Infect Drug Resist
December 2024
Department of Infectious Diseases, Yijishan Hospital of Wannan Medical College, Wuhu, Anhui, 241001, People's Republic of China.
() can cause fungal infections in near-drowning victims, and an increasing number of cases have been reported. However, cases of bone and joint infections caused by are rare. In this case, a 35-year-old otherwise healthy Chinese female presented with aspiration pneumonia and knee arthritis after accidentally falling into sewage and near-drowning and underwent macrogenomic second-generation sequencing of arthrocentesis fluid, which showed .
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December 2024
Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Tokyo Medical University Ibaraki Medical Center.
Edwardsiella tarda is a Gram-negative intracellular pathogen within the Enterobacterales order, recognized as a causative agent of hemorrhagic septicemia in fish but also pathogenic to humans. However, the clinical course and prognostic factors of E. tarda bacteremia are not fully understood.
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December 2024
CD: Senior Faculty, Departments of Pediatrics and Anesthesia, Baylor College of Medicine.
Drowning is the third leading cause of death from unintentional injury worldwide, accounting for 7% of all injury-related deaths. The World Health Organization estimates that there are ≈236 000 deaths due to drowning worldwide each year. Significant efforts have focused on creating systems to prevent drowning, but an average of 4000 fatal and 8000 nonfatal drownings still occur annually in the United States-likely an underestimate.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAm J Emerg Med
January 2025
Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, Tsukuba Memorial Hospital, Tsukuba, Japan; Health Services Research and Development Center, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan.
Acta Neurol Belg
October 2024
Department of Neurology, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS), Bangalore, 560029, India.
Ann Clin Microbiol Antimicrob
October 2024
Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Immunology and Inflammation, Jiangxi Provincial Clinical Research Center for Laboratory Medicine, Department of Clinical Laboratory, The 2nd affiliated hospital, Jiangxi Medical College, Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China.
Objective: This study aims to present a case of persistent mycetoma caused by Scedosporium boydii and undertake a systematic literature overview to elucidate the clinical characteristics and antifungal treatment exhibited by such patients.
Methods: We report the case of a 24-year-old female who sustained a Scedosporium boydii infection in her right foot over a decade ago following a nail puncture. Concurrently, a comprehensive literature overview was conducted on PubMed, focusing on documented cases of Scedosporium boydii infections with the intent of extracting relevant clinical data.
J Trauma Nurs
September 2024
Author Affiliations: National Farm Medicine Center, Marshfield Clinic Research Institute (Dr. Salzwedel); Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Population Health, Marshfield Clinic Research Institute (Dr. Rhodes-Lyons); and Trauma Department, Marshfield Clinic Health System-Marshfield, Marshfield, Wisconsin (Mrs Kracht).
J Health Care Poor Underserved
August 2024
Emergency medical retrieval services (EMRS) in remote Indigenous islands is rarely investigated. We analyzed the characteristics of patients who underwent EMRS in Lanyu, an offshore island of Taiwan, from January 1, 2014 to December 31, 2021. The need for EMRS for Lanyu Indigenous residents (N=132, 3.
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April 2024
Division of Respirology and Critical Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine Universitas Indonesia - Cipto Mangunkusumo Hospital, Jakarta, Indonesia..
Background: Acute lung injury or acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is one of the most common complications of non-fatal drowning. Although respiratory societies' guidelines endorse the role of systemic corticosteroids in ARDS, the evidence for systemic corticosteroid use in ARDS due to non-fatal drowning is limited.
Methods: A search was conducted on Pubmed, OVID, and EuropePMC, assessing the clinical question using inclusion and exclusion criteria.
Emerg Med Clin North Am
August 2024
Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine, Roanoke, VA, USA.
Drowning is responsible for considerable morbidity and mortality worldwide, and it is estimated that 90% of drownings are preventable. Drowning is defined as "the process of experiencing respiratory impairment from submersion/immersion in liquid." Emergency providers should focus on airway management and rapid delivery of oxygen to interrupt the drowning process and improve patient outcomes.
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July 2024
Animal Emergency Service, Tanawha, Queensland, Australia.
The aim of this study is to describe a case of haemoglobinuria in a cat after near-drowning. A 6-year-old male neutered domestic short hair cat weighing 6.5 kg with a pre-existing seizure disorder presented to an emergency hospital after near-drowning in a swimming pool during a seizure episode.
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April 2024
National Center for Psychotraumatology, University of Southern Denmark, 5230 Odense, Denmark.
Clin Nephrol Case Stud
May 2024
Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, TX, USA.
Front Med (Lausanne)
April 2024
Medical Intensive Care Unit, University Clinical Centre of the Republic of Srpska, Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Drowning remains a significant global health concern, claiming over 300,000 lives annually, with a disproportionate impact on young individuals in low-and middle-income countries. Conventional mechanical ventilation, while common, falls short in addressing the hypoxemia and hypercapnia often observed in severe near-drowning cases. Veno-venous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (vvECMO) emerges as a critical intervention for cardiopulmonary failure post-drowning.
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April 2024
Department of Neurology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China.
Background: Scedosporium apiospermum (S. apiospermum) is a rare fungal pathogen that causes disseminated infections. It rarely affects immunocompetent individuals and has a poor prognosis.
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March 2024
College of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Chinese People's Liberation Army General Hospital, No. 17, Heishanhu Road, Haidian District, Beijing, 100091, China.
Scedosporium apiospermum species complex are widely distributed fungi that can be found in a variety of polluted environments, including soil, sewage, and decaying vegetation. Those opportunistic pathogens with strong potential of invasion commonly affect immunosuppressed populations However, few cases of scedosporiosis are reported in immunocompetent individuals, who might be misdiagnosed, leading to a high mortality rate. Here, we reported an immunocompetent case of systemtic infection involved in lung, brain and spine, caused by S.
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March 2024
Department of Cardiology, Children's Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China.
Drowning is a common cause of childhood morbidity and mortality worldwide. Anoxia, hypothermia, and metabolic acidosis are mainly responsible for this morbidity. Drowning may lead to multiple organ damage, especially cardiac damage, in cases in which severe hypothermia and hypoxemia occur.
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February 2024
Infectious Diseases Section, 3rd Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Aristotle University School of Health Sciences, Thessaloniki, Greece.
Scedosporium/Lomentospora species exist as saprophytic moulds that can potentially lead to serious infections in patients who have experienced near-drowning incidents. Scedosporium species are distributed across different regions of the world while Lomentospora prolificans has quite a restricted geographic distribution. We aimed to systematically review scedosporiosis cases after near-drowning, their clinical manifestations, underlying diseases, treatments, outcomes and its impact through disability-adjusted life years (DALYs).
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May 2024
GRAFAIS Research Group, Institut Nacional d'Educació Física de Catalunya (INEFC), Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
Background: A technique called in-water resuscitation (IWR) was devised on a surfboard to ventilate persons who seemingly did not breathe upon a water rescue. Despite IWR still raises uncertainties regarding its applicability, this technique is recommended by the International Liaison Committee for Resuscitation (ILCOR). Thus, this study aimed to evaluate the feasibility of IWR with a rescue board before and during towing and, to compare rescue times and rescue-associated fatigue levels between rescues with rescue breath attempts and without (SR).
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June 2024
Howard University Hospital, Department of Pathology, 2041 Georgia Ave NW, Washington, DC 20060, USA.
Background Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is a life-saving procedure that can be performed in many situations where a person's breathing or heartbeat has stopped, such as during a heart attack, suffocation, near drowning, or electrical injuries. Despite its importance, to our knowledge, no research has been conducted yet in our community on the differences in CPR knowledge, attitudes, and willingness between those with and without heart disease relatives. Objective This study aimed to assess the level of knowledge, attitude, and willingness of people with and without heart disease relatives to perform CPR in a case of cardiac arrest.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInt J Legal Med
May 2024
Reparto Carabinieri Investigazioni Scientifiche di Cagliari-Sezione di Biologia, Cagliari, Italy.
Molecular identification of extremely compromised human remains in forensic field is usually performed from DNA typing of bones, which are a difficult sample to work with. Moreover, autosomal STR profiles do not always result in the identification of the donor due to lack of comparisons or non-hit throughout database searching. An attempt to overcome these issues is represented by fingernails as an alternative DNA source and Y-STRs typing to infer both geographical and familial ancestry of the unknown donor.
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