The International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation has initiated a continuous review of
new, peer-reviewed, published cardiopulmonary resuscitation science. This is the third annual …

The Japanese Clinical Practice Guidelines for Management of Sepsis and Septic Shock
2020 (J-SSCG 2020), a Japanese-specific set of clinical practice guidelines for sepsis and …

Background The joint committee of the Japanese Society of Intensive Care Medicine/Japanese
Respiratory Society/Japanese Society of Respiratory Care Medicine on ARDS Clinical …

Rationale: According to the 2002 ATS/ERS Consensus Classification, a confident diagnosis
of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) without surgical lung biopsy is made with consistent …

… Comparison between pre- and post-ECMO continuous variables were undertaken using
paired Student’s t test and the paired Wilcoxon rank sum tests were compared with Wilcoxon …

Background Acute exacerbation (AE) is a major cause of death in idiopathic pulmonary
fibrosis (IPF). However, little is known about sensitive biomarkers for predicting AE. The aim of …

… Furthermore, in today’s aging society, one of the important risk factors for PICS is frailty [7],
which is an intermediate stage between normal health and the state in which care is needed. …

… Demographic characteristics and the levels of serum biomarkers were compared between
the subject groups using Bonferroni’s test. The levels of serum biomarkers were further …

… For comparisons we used Student’s t-test and Wilcoxon test for continuous variables, Chi-squared
or Fischer’s exact test for categorical variables. Spearman’s or Pearson’s correlation …

… The reagents used in the present study were obtained as follows: Eagle’s minimum essential
medium-α (MEM-α) was obtained from Nikken BioMed., Kyoto, Japan; paraformaldehyde, …