Volume 30, Issue 6 – November 2022

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At least he didn’t miss his train…

Case A 35-year-old male presented to the emergency room (ER) with acute dyspnoea (SpO2 98%), pain and absent breathing sounds over the left hemithorax and hypotension (reported pre-hospital blood pressure 63/37 mmHg). He had no…

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Treat the lungs and wait for the brain in COVID-19: a case report of severe COVID-19 encephalopathy

Abstract Encephalopathy is a severe and underestimated neurological complication of COVID-19 infection, with a high prevalence in COVID-19 patients in intensive care. We present a case of a 68-year-old male with severe COVID-19 encephalopathy and…

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An 85-year old patient with severe ongoing bleeding

Abstract In this case report, we describe an 85-year-old female patient who presented with a rare but important problem of anticoagulant rebound complicating dabigatran use. Despite multiple attempts to correct the bleeding, it continued and…

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What is this CVVHD device telling you about your patient?

A 74-year-old man was admitted to the haematology ward because of acute promyelocytic leukaemia and treated with all-trans retinoic acid and arsenic trioxide. Treatment was complicated by differentiation syndrome. The patient developed progressive respiratory failure…

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Potential pandemic pathogens series: Ebola virus

History of Ebola virus Ebolavirus (EBOV) is a member of the family of the Filoviridae together with five other genera: Marburgvirus, Cuevavirus, Dianlovirus, Striavirus and Thamnovirus. Importantly, novel filoviruses of unknown pathogenic potential continue to…

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With our minds wide open: Let us foster the young academic spirit in critical care!

In this last issue of the Netherlands Journal of Critical Care (NJCC) in 2022, Ronald Akkerman and colleagues from the Leiden University Medical Center review the Ebola virus in the series of potential pandemic pathogens.[1]…

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