Medicina intensivaPub Date : 2025-10-06DOI: 10.1016/j.medine.2025.502299
Francisco Ramón Pampín Huerta, Gonzalo Pardo Peña, Dolores Moreira Gómez, María Pilar Madruga Garrido
{"title":"Airway management in critically ill patients. The need to adapt guidelines to our reality and adhere to them.","authors":"Francisco Ramón Pampín Huerta, Gonzalo Pardo Peña, Dolores Moreira Gómez, María Pilar Madruga Garrido","doi":"10.1016/j.medine.2025.502299","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.medine.2025.502299","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":94139,"journal":{"name":"Medicina intensiva","volume":" ","pages":"502299"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145245964","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Medicina intensivaPub Date : 2025-10-04DOI: 10.1016/j.medine.2025.502298
María Teresa Belmonte Alcaraz, Diego Martínez García, Carola Giménez-Esparza Vich
{"title":"Primary central nervous system vasculitis. A rare disease with high mortality.","authors":"María Teresa Belmonte Alcaraz, Diego Martínez García, Carola Giménez-Esparza Vich","doi":"10.1016/j.medine.2025.502298","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.medine.2025.502298","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":94139,"journal":{"name":"Medicina intensiva","volume":" ","pages":"502298"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145228654","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Medicina intensivaPub Date : 2025-10-01DOI: 10.1016/j.medine.2025.502215
Marta Bauça Socias , Dolly Andrea Caicedo , Eva Benveniste-Pérez , Georgina de la Rosa Loppacher , Eva Montané
{"title":"Hypernatremia and renal dysfunction after sevoflurane sedation in the intensive care unit: Three case reports","authors":"Marta Bauça Socias , Dolly Andrea Caicedo , Eva Benveniste-Pérez , Georgina de la Rosa Loppacher , Eva Montané","doi":"10.1016/j.medine.2025.502215","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.medine.2025.502215","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":94139,"journal":{"name":"Medicina intensiva","volume":"49 10","pages":"Article 502215"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144096523","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Medicina intensivaPub Date : 2025-10-01DOI: 10.1016/j.medine.2025.502211
Aurio Fajardo-Campoverdi , Eduardo Mireles-Cabodevila , Alberto Medina , Miguel Ibarra-Estrada , José Baltazar-Torres , Robert Chatburn
{"title":"Update of the taxonomy of mechanical ventilation modes","authors":"Aurio Fajardo-Campoverdi , Eduardo Mireles-Cabodevila , Alberto Medina , Miguel Ibarra-Estrada , José Baltazar-Torres , Robert Chatburn","doi":"10.1016/j.medine.2025.502211","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.medine.2025.502211","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The rapid technological development of mechanical ventilation<span> has resulted in increasingly complex modes, advanced monitoring capabilities and the incorporation of artificial intelligence. However, manufacturers have created a multitude of trade names, which has generated a great deal of confusion in their understanding, handling and application. This problem is exacerbated in Spanish-speaking countries due to inconsistencies in translations and variability in nomenclature between regions. This manuscript aims to provide an updated review of the taxonomic classification of ventilatory modes in order to promote standardization of terminology, especially in the Spanish-speaking clinical context, and includes changes in the taxonomy and manner of labeling modes of mechanical ventilation. This review focuses on invasive mechanical ventilation of the adult critically ill patient, although the taxonomy is also applicable to all ventilation modalities, including noninvasive, high-frequency, pediatric, and even home ventilation.</span></div></div>","PeriodicalId":94139,"journal":{"name":"Medicina intensiva","volume":"49 10","pages":"Article 502211"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144251665","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Medicina intensivaPub Date : 2025-10-01DOI: 10.1016/j.medine.2025.502214
Noemi Merino Pizarro , Manuel Valdivia Marchal , Carmen Bermudez Ruiz , Juan Francisco Martinez Carmona , Ashlen Rodriguez Carmona , Jose Manuel Serrano Simon
{"title":"Utility of airway occlusion pressure in traumatic diaphragmatic rupture","authors":"Noemi Merino Pizarro , Manuel Valdivia Marchal , Carmen Bermudez Ruiz , Juan Francisco Martinez Carmona , Ashlen Rodriguez Carmona , Jose Manuel Serrano Simon","doi":"10.1016/j.medine.2025.502214","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.medine.2025.502214","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":94139,"journal":{"name":"Medicina intensiva","volume":"49 10","pages":"Article 502214"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144056170","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Medicina intensivaPub Date : 2025-10-01DOI: 10.1016/j.medine.2025.502137
Ghali Ballout , Marta Magaldi Mendaña , Bartomeu Ramis Bou , Cristian Torres Quevedo , Adriana Capdevila Freixas , Silvia Moreno-Jurico , Enrique Jesús Carrero Cardenal , Jaime Fontanals Dotras , Comisión a la Atención a la Parada Cardiorrespiratoria del Hospital Clínic de Barcelona
{"title":"Impact of COVID-19 in the in-hospital cardiac arrest activations: Retrospective study","authors":"Ghali Ballout , Marta Magaldi Mendaña , Bartomeu Ramis Bou , Cristian Torres Quevedo , Adriana Capdevila Freixas , Silvia Moreno-Jurico , Enrique Jesús Carrero Cardenal , Jaime Fontanals Dotras , Comisión a la Atención a la Parada Cardiorrespiratoria del Hospital Clínic de Barcelona","doi":"10.1016/j.medine.2025.502137","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.medine.2025.502137","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Objective</h3><div>To analyze whether the characteristics of the patients treated by the in-hospital cardiorespiratory arrest team, IHCA and cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) were different in the period before the COVID-19 compared to the pandemic period; also analyzing the differences between COVID+ and COVID− patients.</div></div><div><h3>Design</h3><div>Observational and retrospective study from January 1st, 2018, to December 31st, 2021.</div></div><div><h3>Setting</h3><div>Tertiary hospital.</div></div><div><h3>Patients</h3><div>All adult patients over 18 years old requiring attention from the IHCA response team.</div></div><div><h3>Interventions</h3><div>CPR maneuvers according to the advanced life support guidelines of the European Resuscitation Council published in 2015, as well as the modifications made in the COVID era (2020).</div></div><div><h3>Main variables</h3><div>Demographic and epidemiological data, activations of the IHCA response team, CA data, hospital and intensive care unit (ICU) length of stay, survival and neurological outcome at hospital discharge.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>A total of 368 patients were analyzed: 173 in the pre-pandemic group and 195 in the pandemic group. The neurological outcome was better in the pre-pandemic group, and COVID+ patients had a longer ICU length of stay. However, no differences in the response time of the CPR team or in CPR duration were found, nor in immediate survival or at hospital discharge, between both groups or between COVID+ and COVID− patients.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><div>Changes in CPR care protocols due to the COVID-19 pandemia did not seem to affect response times from IHCA team neither immediate nor discharge survival.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":94139,"journal":{"name":"Medicina intensiva","volume":"49 10","pages":"Article 502137"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143367169","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Medicina intensivaPub Date : 2025-10-01DOI: 10.1016/j.medine.2025.502256
Amilcar Tinoco-Solórzano , Adrian Avila-Hilari , Manuel Luis Avellanas-Chavala , Felipe de Jesús Montelongo , Jorge Vélez-Páez , Víctor Nieto Estrada , Antonio Viruez Soto , Daniel Molano Franco , Eduardo Castelo Tamayo , Ignacio Granda Luna , Alfonso Salazar Mendoza , Luis Mamani Cruz , Jonathan Galindo Ayala , Pablo Vásquez-Hoyos , Fausto Maldonado Coronel , Roger Huanca Payehuanca , Jorge Rosendo Sánchez Medina
{"title":"Definitions and consensus recommendations on critical care medicine at altitude from the Expert Committee on Critical Care Medicine at altitude of the Pan-American and Iberian Federation of Critical Care Medicine and Intensive Care","authors":"Amilcar Tinoco-Solórzano , Adrian Avila-Hilari , Manuel Luis Avellanas-Chavala , Felipe de Jesús Montelongo , Jorge Vélez-Páez , Víctor Nieto Estrada , Antonio Viruez Soto , Daniel Molano Franco , Eduardo Castelo Tamayo , Ignacio Granda Luna , Alfonso Salazar Mendoza , Luis Mamani Cruz , Jonathan Galindo Ayala , Pablo Vásquez-Hoyos , Fausto Maldonado Coronel , Roger Huanca Payehuanca , Jorge Rosendo Sánchez Medina","doi":"10.1016/j.medine.2025.502256","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.medine.2025.502256","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The Expert Committee on Critical Care Medicine at Altitude of the Pan American and Iberian Federation of Critical Care Medicine and Intensive Care detected a lack of terms defining this critical care medicine, as well as a lack of standardization in the approach to these patients. These shortcomings can lead to errors in management, for example, in critically ill patients at risk of death who require oxygen therapy, whether invasive or non-invasively.</div><div>The objective of the Expert Committee was to develop an international consensus that would standardize terminology and establish key definitions and recommendations for the care of critically ill patients at altitude. This document includes five important definitions, four recommendations related to the management of acute respiratory failure at altitude, and a series of considerations for future research. It also establishes specific criteria that differentiate it from the traditional approach used at sea level.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":94139,"journal":{"name":"Medicina intensiva","volume":"49 10","pages":"Article 502256"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144818936","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Medicina intensivaPub Date : 2025-10-01DOI: 10.1016/j.medine.2025.502208
Gökhan Tonkaz, Merve Nur Taşdemir, Mehmet Tonkaz
{"title":"Contrast media extravasation mimicking subarachnoid hemorrhage due to hypertensive encephalopathy","authors":"Gökhan Tonkaz, Merve Nur Taşdemir, Mehmet Tonkaz","doi":"10.1016/j.medine.2025.502208","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.medine.2025.502208","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":94139,"journal":{"name":"Medicina intensiva","volume":"49 10","pages":"Article 502208"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144039438","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}