Volume 30, Issue 6 – November 2022
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…
Read articleAbstract 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…
Read articleAbstract 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…
Read articleA 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…
Read articleHistory 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…
Read articleIn 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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