Critical care medicine
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Critical care medicine · Mar 2018
Editorial CommentCandidemia in the ICU: Does Initial Antifungal Matter?
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Critical care medicine · Mar 2018
Pediatric In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Secondary to Acute Pulmonary Embolism.
Pulmonary embolism is a rarely reported and potentially treatable cause of cardiac arrest in children and adolescents. The objective of this case series is to describe the course of five adolescent patients with in-hospital cardiac arrest secondary to pulmonary embolism. ⋯ Pulmonary embolism was recognized as the etiology of multiple adolescent cardiac arrests in this single-center series and may be more common than previously reported. Recognition, high-quality cardiopulmonary resuscitation, and treatment with thrombolytic therapy resulted in survival in four of five patients.