Dessmon Y.H. Tai

TL;DR: Critically ill patients with SARS and ALI/ARDS had characteristic clinical findings, high rates of complications; and high mortality.

TL;DR: It is believed that increased vigilance against stroke and other thrombotic complications among critically-ill SARS patients in future outbreaks is needed, especially if treatment such as intravenous immunoglobulin, that increases pro-thrombosis tendency, is contemplated.

TL;DR: It is observed that the clinical spectrum of disease as seen in the autopsy series included sudden deaths, a worrisome finding that illustrates that viral diseases will have a spectrum of clinical presentations and that the diagnoses made for such patients must incorporate laboratory as well as clinical data.

TL;DR: Flexible bronchoscopy is performed frequently in intensive care units (ICUs) for various indications using the reusable conventional bronchoscope (CB), and the single-use disposable bronchscope (SB) was introduced into the health care industry recently.

TL;DR: High pleural LDH (>1500 IU/L) predicts shorter survival (less than a year) in patients with adenocarcinoma lung presenting with MPE at the time of initial diagnosis, and may be clinically applied for selecting therapeutic modality directed at prevention of reaccumulation of MPE.