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Critical Care and Shock, August 2009, Volume 12, No. 3

Management of Hydrofluoric Acid Injury in the Emergency Department and Critical Care Units

Authors:
Luis Chapa, Salim Surani, Joseph Varon

Severe Plesiomonas shigelloides Gastroenteritis in a Young Healthy Patient

Authors:
Ashish Anil Sule

Ventilator Bundle Compliance: Report from a Neurosurgical Intensive Care Unit

Authors:
Lincoln Jiménez, Emil A. Pastrana, Gloria Rodríguez-Vega, John D. Rolston

Exercise-Associated Hyponatremia and the Varon-Ayus Syndrome

Authors:
Karina M. Soto-Ruiz, W. Frank Peacock

Endurance sports such as marathon running are increasingly popular, attracting both professional and recreational athletes. While most participants recognize that these events can result in health hazards, few consider death a likely outcome. Exercise associated hyponatremia can be a consequence for which fatal outcomes may occur. In some it is mild and without symptoms. However, in others it is of such severity that respiratory failure secondary to pulmonary edema, and possibly death may result.

Acute Lobar Atelectasis During Mechanical Ventilation: To Beat, Suck, or Blow?

Authors:
Christopher Gilbert, Paul E. Marik, Joseph Varon

RhAPC in Neurocritical Care: Case Series and Literature Review of Spinal Cord Injury, Severe Sepsis and RhAPC Therapy

Authors:
Rosángela L. Fernández-Medero, Angel Cestero-Ruiz, Ricardo H. Brau-Ramírez, William Rodríguez-Cintrón, Gloria Rodríguez-Vega

An Unusual Chest Pain

Authors:
Salim R. Surani, Karrie Mclemore, Tay Nguyen, Joseph Varon

A 67-year-old gentleman with a prior history of coronary artery disease and a four-vessel coronary artery bypass graft five years prior to admission, presented to the hospital complaining of a 12-day history of midsternal chest pain. A chest radiograph performed 18 months prior to this presentation revealed a normal cardiovascular silhouette and normal mediastinum. Upon presentation, a new chest radiograph revealed a wide mediastinum. A computed tomography done emergently revealed an aortic thrombus starting at superior mediastinum and large (6 cm) pseudoaneurysm in anterior mediastinum.

Role of Enteral Nutrition in Pre-operative Patients

Authors:
Luciana B Sutanto, Salim Surani, Teddy OH Prasetyono, Embing Syamsudin, A Sugeng, Irawan Muhidin