Background Timely and appropriate care is the key to achieving good outcomes in acutely
ill patients, but the effectiveness of critical care may be limited in resource-limited settings. …

Outcomes from HICs cannot be reliably extrapolated to LMICs, so it is important to study
outcomes for critically ill patients in LMICs. Specific challenges to achieving meaningful …

OBJECTIVES: To determine whether the “Checklist for Early Recognition and Treatment of
Acute Illness and Injury” decision support tool during ICU admission and rounding is …

Processes to ensure world-wide best-practice for critical care delivery are likely to minimize
preventable death, disability and costly complications for any healthcare system’s sickest …

Background The Checklist for Early Recognition and Treatment of Acute Illness (CERTAIN)
is an international collaborative project with the overall objective of standardizing the …

Introduction Nocturnal symptoms are common and important in both asthma and COPD but
the relationship between sleep quality and diseases' characteristics has not been fully …

Methods Permission was given to retrospectively analyze the ARDS Network database with
respect to VR. These previously collected databases formed the foundation of three ARDS …

In recent years, several national chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) guidelines
have been issued. In Serbia, the burden of COPD is high and most of the patients are …

Introduction The Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) strategy
report provides guidance on effective management of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (…

Complications of respiratory system in patients suffering from chronic renal failure who are
treated with regular haemodialysis are well known. However, the influence of the duration of …