ArticleIntensive care medicine2020
Pre-admission air pollution exposure prolongs the duration of ventilation in intensive care patients.
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- Acute and chronic exposure to air pollution in relation with incidence, prevalence, severity and mortality of COVID-19: a rapid systematic review.Environmental health : a global access science source · 2021Pooled it
- Short-term exposure to ambient fine particulate pollution aggravates ventilator-associated pneumonia in pediatric intensive care patients undergoing cardiovascular surgeries.Environmental health : a global access science source · 2023Trial
- Impact of air pollution on exacerbations of respiratory and cardiovascular diseases for the intensivist: a narrative review.Intensive care medicine experimental · 2026Review
- Impact of Ambient PM₁₀ and SO₂ Levels on Intensive Care Unit Admissions Due to Cardiopulmonary Diseases in a Tertiary Care Hospital.Archives of Iranian medicine · 2025Observational
- The relationship between chronic air pollution exposure, neighborhood environmental vulnerability, and adverse COVID-19 morbidities among hospitalized New York City residents.Environment international · 2025Article
- Environmental Risk Factors for Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome.Clinics in chest medicine · 2024Review
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- Exposure to ambient air pollutants and acute respiratory distress syndrome risk in sepsis.Intensive care medicine · 2023Article
- Pre-admission ambient air pollution and blood soot particles predict hospitalisation outcomes in COVID-19 patients.The European respiratory journal · 2023Article
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- Environmental Factors.Critical care clinics · 2021Review
- Environment and the COVID-19 pandemic.Environmental research · 2021Article
- Hallmarks of environmental insults.Cell · 2021Review
- Intensive care admissions and outcomes associated with short-term exposure to ambient air pollution: a time series analysis.Intensive care medicine · 2020Article
- Air Pollution Exposure and Covid-19 in Dutch Municipalities.Environmental & resource economics · 2020Article
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11 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
purposeAir pollutant exposure constitutes a serious risk factor for the emergence or aggravation of (existing) pulmonary disease. The impact of pre-intensive care ambient air pollutant exposure on the duration of artificial ventilation was, however, not yet established.
methodsThe medical records of 2003 patients, admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) of the Antwerp University Hospital (Flanders, Belgium), who were artificially ventilated on ICU admission or within 48 h after admission, for the duration of at least 48 h, were analyzed. For each patient's home address, daily air pollutant exposure [particulate matter with an aerodynamic diameter ≤ 2.5 µm (PM
resultsControlling for pre-specified confounders, an IQR increment in BC (1.2 µg/m
conclusionShort-term ambient air pollution exposure prior to ICU admission represents an unrecognized environmental risk factor for the duration of artificial ventilation in the ICU.
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