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ArticleCritical care (London, England)2013

Diaphragmatic dysfunction in the intensive care unit: caught in the cross-fire between sepsis and mechanical ventilation.

Basil J Petrof

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Article in Critical care (London, England), 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
6citing papers in PubMed
1.2field-weighted citation impact, top 18% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 18 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Ventilator-induced diaphragm dysfunction in critical illness.Experimental biology and medicine (Maywood, N.J.) · 2018
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Basil J Petrof
McGill University Health Centre · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Accumulating evidence indicates that diaphragmatic weakness is common and frequently severe in mechanically ventilated patients. Supinski and Callahan now report that infection is a major risk factor for diaphragmatic weakness in this patient population. Importantly, they show that patients with the greatest levels of diaphragmatic dysfunction have a much poorer prognosis in terms of more prolonged ventilation as well as higher mortality. Mechanical ventilation itself has also been found to induce diaphragmatic weakness along with cellular changes resembling those found in sepsis. Future studies should be directed at understanding the interaction between sepsis and mechanical ventilation, and to developing therapeutic approaches that target their common cellular pathways implicated in diaphragmatic weakness.

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Critical IllnessDiaphragmMuscle WeaknessRespiration, ArtificialFemaleHumansMale

Identifiers

PMID23981865
PMCPMC4055999
OpenAlexW2161023445

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