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Body Mass Index Profile in Hong Kong Chinese Adults
Obesity is considered a chronic disease and not just a social stigma due to the associated morbidity and early mortality. Obesity has now become...
Prevention of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Transmission from Mother to Child—A Cohort Study in...
Since the onset of the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) epidemic in the mid-1980s, the number of HIV-infected cases has risen sharply throughout the world....
Nitric Oxide Production by Human Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells
The discovery of nitric oxide as a biomolecule with important physiological function has led to the development of various analytical methods for its detection...
Retinol Palmitate Counteracts Oxidative Injury During Experimental Septic Shock
Gram-negative bacteria induced septic shock, a condition with high mortality, is frequently seen in critical care medicine. The wall of gram-negative bacteria consists of...
The Practice of Foregoing Life Support in the Critically Ill “Old Old”: A Singapore...
Studies on the foregoing of life support (FLS) in North America, Europe and Australia have shown diversity in terms of the incidence, decision-making process...
An Audit of Patients with Rheumatic Disease Requiring Medical Intensive Care
Patients with rheumatic disease are often immunocompromised as a result of either their disease or treatment. They may become ill either from a flare...
Obstetric Admissions to the Intensive Therapy Unit of a Tertiary Care Institution
Pregnancy is associated with physiological changes in various organ systems and complications arising from the interaction between these changes and disease processes may be...
Abdominal Complications after Cardiac Surgery
Despite intensive therapeutic efforts, both the incidence and mortality of gastrointestinal complications after cardiac surgery employing cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) have not decreased during the...
Effect of Different Endotracheal Suctioning Systems on Cardiorespiratory Parameters of Ventilated Patients
Endotracheal suctioning is a routine procedure performed in the intensive care unit (ICU) to remove secretions from the tracheobronchial tree. This is to maintain...
The Role of Early Tracheostomy in Critically Ill Neurosurgical Patients
In medical history, tracheostomy is one of the oldest operations performed. There are indications that the Egyptians first employed this procedure more than 3500...