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The Story of Targeted Temperature Management after Cardiac Arrest!

Mazen Kherallah

Aug 23, 20214 min read

Neurocritical Care

The Story of Targeted Temperature Management after Cardiac Arrest!

In the past two decades, the critical care field has witnessed the development of new concepts and interventions aiming at improving...

Awake Prone Position Reduces Need of Mechanical Ventilation in COVID-19 Respiratory Failure !

Mazen Kherallah

Aug 22, 20212 min read

ARDS

Awake Prone Position Reduces Need of Mechanical Ventilation in COVID-19 Respiratory Failure !

Awake prone position has been widely used in COVID-19 patients with respiratory failure and incorporated in clinical guidelines and...

Full Anticoagulation in Critically Ill COVID-19 Patients

Mazen Kherallah

Aug 9, 20211 min read

COVID-19

Full Anticoagulation in Critically Ill COVID-19 Patients

In critically ill patients with Covid-19, an initial strategy of therapeutic-dose anticoagulation with unfractionated or...

Milrinone as Compared with Dobutamine in the Treatment of Cardiogenic Shock

Mazen Kherallah

Aug 9, 20211 min read

Shock

Milrinone as Compared with Dobutamine in the Treatment of Cardiogenic Shock

192 patients were admitted to the cardiac ICU with cardiogenic shock and were randomized to receive either milrinone or dobutamine. The...

The Anti-vaccine Con Job Is Becoming Untenable

Nabil Abouchala

Aug 5, 20211 min read

The Anti-vaccine Con Job Is Becoming Untenable

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/08/vaccine-refusers-dont-want-blue-americas-respect/619627/

A blood marker predicts who gets ‘breakthrough’ COVID

Nabil Abouchala

Aug 4, 20211 min read

COVID-19

A blood marker predicts who gets ‘breakthrough’ COVID

High levels of virus-blocking antibodies confer protection to vaccinated people as they are less likely to get infected when exposed to...

Mazen Kherallah

Aug 2, 20212 min read

Neurocritical Care

MRI Brain FLAIR, DWI, and SWI

Fluid Attenuated Inversion Recovery (Flair) and diffusion-weighted imaging

Mazen Kherallah

Jul 31, 20211 min read

Neurocritical Care

MRI Images T1, T2, and FLAIR

luid Attenuated Inversion Recovery (Flair) is similar to a T2-weighted image except that the TE and TR times are very long.

Mazen Kherallah

Jul 28, 20211 min read

Ethical Dilemma!

A 65-year-old man who was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis three years ago presented to the emergency department for...

Concerns Regarding Delaying the Second Dose of the COVID-19 Vaccine!

Mazen Kherallah

Jul 27, 20211 min read

Concerns Regarding Delaying the Second Dose of the COVID-19 Vaccine!

A study published in the NEJM on July 21, 2021, revealed that the effectiveness of the AstraZeneca vaccine or the BioNtech/Pfiezer...

Malignant Features on EEG Accurately Predict Prognosis after Cardiac Arrest

Mazen Kherallah

Jul 23, 20211 min read

Neurocritical Care

Malignant Features on EEG Accurately Predict Prognosis after Cardiac Arrest

According to a study published by Westhall et al. in Neurology in Apr 2016, certain features of EEG can predict the neurological...

Hypothermia or Normothermia after Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest?

Mazen Kherallah

Jul 20, 20211 min read

Neurocritical Care

Hypothermia or Normothermia after Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest?

A recent study in NEJM has shown that in patients with coma after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, targeted hypothermia did not lead to a...