Medicina intensiva
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To explain mortality in the ICU and in hospital among patients subjected to invasive mechanical ventilation. ⋯ In our study, considering exposure time, the probability of mortality was the same among the 3 different groups of patients with at least one spontaneous breathing test.
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Severe traumatic brain injury (sTBI) remains prevalent in the young adult population. Indeed, far from descending, the incidence of sTBI remains high. One of the key bases of treatment is to avoid, detect and correct secondary injuries of systemic origin, which aggravate the primary lesion. ⋯ Additionally, certain recommendations (included in complementary material) were not assessed by GRADE, because they constitute a set of therapeutic actions of effective compliance, in which it was not possible to apply the said methodology. Thirty-two recommendations were established, 16 strong and 16 weak, with their respective levels of evidence. This consensus attempts to standardize and establish basic general care measures in this particular patient population.
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Letter Case Reports
Guillain-Barré Syndrome Associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection.