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"Time is Brain": Management of Acute Ischemic Stroke!
The sooner brain reperfusion therapy is initiated after an acute ischemic stroke (AIS), the greater the likelihood of a better outcome....

Mazen Kherallah
Aug 26, 20214 min read


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...

Mazen Kherallah
Aug 23, 20214 min read


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...

Mazen Kherallah
Aug 22, 20212 min read


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...

Mazen Kherallah
Aug 9, 20211 min read


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...

Mazen Kherallah
Aug 9, 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/

Nabil Abouchala
Aug 5, 20211 min read


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...

Nabil Abouchala
Aug 4, 20211 min read


MRI Brain FLAIR, DWI, and SWI
Fluid Attenuated Inversion Recovery (Flair) and diffusion-weighted imaging

Mazen Kherallah
Aug 2, 20212 min read


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 31, 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...

Mazen Kherallah
Jul 28, 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...

Mazen Kherallah
Jul 27, 20211 min read


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...

Mazen Kherallah
Jul 23, 20211 min read


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...

Mazen Kherallah
Jul 20, 20211 min read
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