Claude Gervais

TL;DR: A strategy for setting PEEP aimed at increasing alveolar recruitment while limiting hyperinflation did not significantly reduce mortality, but it did improve lung function and reduced the duration of mechanical ventilation and theduration of organ failure.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluated the effect on clinical outcome and antibiotic use of two strategies to diagnose ventilator-associated pneumonia and select initial treatment for this condition and found that the noninvasive management strategy was significantly associated with fewer deaths at 14 days, earlier attenuation of organ dysfunction, and less antibiotic use in patients suspected of having VAP.

TL;DR: To test the hypothesis that an invasive management strategy is superior to a clinical, noninvasive one in terms of improving clinical outcomes and minimizing antibiotic use, a multicenter, randomized, uncontrolled trial is initiated to compare these strategies in patients suspected of having ventilator-associated pneumonia.

TL;DR: GAS6 plasma level is elevated in ARDS patients and the high-PEEP strategy is associated with a decrease in GAS6 and IL-8 plasma levels at day 3, without significant differences in day 28 mortality between the 2 groups.

TL;DR: In this article , Mioranirainy DERAHARIJAONA and Catherine LE BOURLOUT developed a clinical care pathway for prostate cancer patients to perform dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry (DXA) at the initiation of treatment.