Objective To discuss the frequency of ventilator pipe replacement in ICU ward for reducing the frequency of VAP occurrence caused by bacterial colonization in ventilator-line. Methods 30 patients hospitalized to ICU ward from Janurary,2008 to June, 2009 who had mechanical-ventilation above 48h were randomly divided into group A, B and C with 30 patients in each group, then bacteria culture and strain analysis were employed for the pipeline sample of ventilator inspiratory side at the time point to be use and used mechanical ventilation for 1 day, 3 days and 7 days. Results There was no bacteria grew after ventilator-line sterilization, and positive ratio of bacterial culture in 1d, 3d and 7d were 46.66%,53.33% and 100.00%, respectively. Conclusions The frequency of ventilator pipe replacement should be shortened in patients with abdominal infection, to replace every 3 days is suitable in ICU where infectious patients gathered.

Objective To explore the establishment and operating mode of hospice care beds in the cancer center of a tertiary general hospital and to evaluate its operating effects preliminarily. Methods Totally 3 hospice care beds were set up in the Cancer Center of Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, the Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing University Medical School in October 2016. The operating mode of hospice care beds in the Class Ⅲgeneral hospital was explored by building a hospice care team, performing professional training, formulating admission and transfer standards, standardizing working processes, refining service contents and quality standards and establishing a community referral system. Totally 49 patients admitted in the hospice care beds from October 2016 to August 2018 were selected. The satisfaction with symptom control and medical services and the degree of psychological pain were compared before and after hospitalization in the hospice care beds. The patients' referral was statically analyzed. Results The satisfaction with symptom control in the 49 patients after hospice care was higher than that before hospice care except for hematemesis and hematochezia, edema and delirium could not be statistically analyzed because the sample size was too small (P＜0.05). The overall satisfaction with medical services rose from (2.88±0.99) to (4.96±0.19);psychological pain decreased from (4.37±1.32) to (1.37±0.73);and the sum of daily hospitalization costs dropped from (899.21±128.46) yuan to (355.16±50.73) yuan (t=10.84, 23.60, 11.34;P＜ 0.01). Conclusions The establishment of hospice care beds in the cancer center of the tertiary general hospital provides a place of hospice care for cancer patients, connects the patients with community resources, and improve the patients' satisfaction with medical services.

Objective To explore the effect of the blood purification combined with early enteral nutrition on the accelerating rehabilitation in critical patients in surgery .Methods Two hundred and thirty-nine critical patients in ICU were chosen , and the patients from June 2011 to May 2012 were divided into the control group ( n=118 ) , and from June 2012 to May 2013 were divided into the observation group ( n=121 ) .The control group received the enteral nutrition after the recovery of intestinal function , and bedside continuous blood purification ( CBP) on the occurrence of acute kidney injury .The observation group received the early enteral nutrition and the routine CBP 24-48 h after the ICU .The therapeutic effect was compared between two groups . Results The level of albumin in the observation group was (34.33 ±4.85)g/L before the treatment, and was (39.72 ±4.72)g/L after the treatment, and the difference was statistically significant (t =-9.219,P <0.01).The level of albumin in the control group was (34.86 ±4.70) g/L before the treatment, and was (34.04 ±4.62) g/L after the treatment, and the difference was not statistically significant (t =1.957,P >0.05).The difference was found in the level of albumin after the treatment between two groups (t=-9.397, P<0.01).The times of hospitalization in ICU, mechanical ventilation and the CBP treatment in the observation group were respectively (17.68 ±2.96) d, (8.49 ±2.35) d, (78.13 ±12.72) h, and were lower than (18.83 ±3.46)d, (9.48 ±2.86) d, (126.50 ±19.56) h in the control group, and the differences were statistically significant (t=2.768, 2.163, 22.602, respectively;P<0.05).Conclusions Application of the blood purification combined with early enteral nutrition in the critical patients in surgery can effectively improve their nutritional index , and reduce the loss of albumin , and shorten the times of mechanical ventilation and hospitalization in ICU , and accelerate the rehabilitation .

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has outbroken globally. As an acute infectious disease, COVID-19 has significant impacts on multiple organs and systems throughout the body. Among patients with COVID-19, especially severe and critical cases, a variety of potential risk factors for coagulation dysfunction exist. Furthermore, the coagulation dysfunction of COVID-19 patients was mainly characterized by elevated D-dimer levels. The coagulation dysfunction could directly affect the prognosis of COVID-19 patients and is a major cause of death in patients with severe COVID-19. In this article, the literatures on the basic clinical manifestations, clinical risk factor, mechanism of coagulation dysfunction and evaluation of coagulation function in COVID-19 were reviewed.

In recent years, the incidence of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) has risen year by year, leading to a high mortality rate. At present, surgical treatment is the major cure for HCC, and in general, HCC is diagnosed at late stages. Due to the heterogeneity of HCC and different sensitivities to drugs, the treatment efficacy of advanced HCC is poor. In this paper, we retrospectively analyzed the prog-ress of HCC treatments and reviewed important progression, which provides new view for the clinical improvement of the total surviv-al of patients with HCC.

Objective:To evaluate the predictive value of neutrophil free fatty acid receptor 3 (FFAR3) for secondary infection in patients with severe acute pancreatitis (SAP).Methods:① Biological information analysis: peripheral blood microarray data sets related to acute pancreatitis (GSE194331) were obtained from the Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO), including data from 32 healthy adults, 52 patients with mild acute pancreatitis, 20 patients with moderate-to-severe acute pancreatitis, and 10 patients with SAP. The original data of GSE194331 dataset were downloaded for quality control, pruning, quantification, annotation and difference analysis, and the different genes were obtained. ② Clinical study: a prospective observational study was conducted. Forty-five SAP patients admitted to the critical care medicine department of the Eastern Theater Command General Hospital of the Chinese People's Liberation Army from January to November 2022 were enrolled, and they were divided into infected group and non-infected group according to whether secondary infection occurred during intensive care unit (ICU) stay. At the same time, 10 healthy adult volunteers were enrolled as control. Peripheral blood of subjects in each group was collected, neutrophils were isolated, and FFAR3 mRNA expression was detected by real-time fluorescence quantitative reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). Spearman correlation method was used to analyze the correlation between neutrophil FFAR3 mRNA expression and secondary infection in SAP patients. Multivariate Logistic regression analysis was used to evaluate whether neutrophil FFAR3 mRNA expression was a risk factor for secondary infection in SAP patients. Receiver operator characteristic curve (ROC curve) was plotted to evaluate the predictive value of neutrophil FFAR3 mRNA expression on secondary infection in SAP patients.Results:① Results of biological information analysis: the analysis of GSE194331 dataset showed that 301 genes were differentially expressed in peripheral blood cells between healthy controls and patients with pancreatitis. By biological function analysis, 8 biological functions involved in immune response were obtained, and 44 differential expressed genes were enriched in these 8 biological functions. The results of cell distribution analysis showed that there were 21 differential expressed genes expressions on neutrophils significantly higher than other immune cells, and the gene related to lipid metabolism was FFAR3. These results indicated that FFAR3 expression was closely related to the occurrence and development of SAP. ② Clinical study results: out of the 45 SAP patients, 24 developed into secondary infection during ICU stay, 21 did not develop into secondary infection. The expression of neutrophil FFAR3 mRNA in SAP patients with secondary infection was significantly higher than that in SAP patients without secondary infection and healthy controls [2 -ΔΔCt: 3.8 (3.0, 4.2) vs. 1.4 (1.1, 2.7), 1.0 (0.8, 1.1), both P < 0.05]. Spearman correlation analysis showed that neutrophil FFAR3 mRNA expression was positively correlated with secondary infection in SAP patients ( r = 0.799, P < 0.001). Multivariate Logistic regression analysis showed that increased FFAR3 mRNA expression was an independent risk factor for secondary infection in SAP patients [odds ratio ( OR) = 17.212, 95% confidence interval (95% CI) was 3.004-98.613, P = 0.001]. ROC curve analysis showed that the area under the ROC curve (AUC) of neutrophil FFAR3 mRNA expression for predicting secondary infection in SAP patients was 0.856 (95% CI was 0.750-0.981, P < 0.001). When the optimal cut-off value was 2.37, the sensitivity was 95.83% and the specificity was 76.19%. According to the optimal cut-off value of neutrophil FFAR3 mRNA expression (2.37) for predicting secondary infection in SAP patients obtained by ROC curve analysis, 45 SAP patients were divided into two groups for subgroup analysis. It suggested that the incidence of secondary infection in SAP patients with FFAR3 mRNA expression level ≥2.37 was significantly higher than that in SAP patients with FFAR3 mRNA expression level < 2.37 [82.14% (23/28) vs. 5.88% (1/17)], and the difference was statistically significant ( P < 0.01). Conclusion:The expression of FFAR3 mRNA in neutrophils is closely related to the secondary infection in SAP patients, and monitoring its level can effectively predict the secondary infection in SAP patients.

Objective:To explore the therapeutic characteristics of population with gout achieving treat-to-target (T2T) indicators through real-world research and evaluate their safety.Methods:A total of 3 287 patients diagnosed with gout by rheumatologists in 21 first-class tertiary hospitals in 10 provinces, municipalities, and autonomous regions in China from January 2015 to December 2021 were included in this polycentric cross-sectional study. The database included patients′ general information, disease characteristics, and clinical application of traditional Chinese and Western medicine treatment measures. SPSS and Excel software were used for data analysis. Frequency analysis, cluster analysis, and factor analysis were used to summarize the characteristics and rules of treatment measures for patients with gout who achieved the target after treatment. The occurrence of adverse events (AE) was recorded during treatment.Results:After treatment, 691 visits (7%) achieved the serum urate (SUA) target, and the most frequent use of urate-lowering therapy (ULT) was febuxostat, followed by benzbromarone. The most common treatment options were following: GroupⅠ: traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) decoction-TCM external treatment-physical exercise-proprietary Chinese medicine; GroupⅡ: ferulic acid-nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs); Group Ⅲ: allopurinol-sodium bicarbonate-benzbromarone; Group Ⅳ: glucocorticoid-colchicine; Group Ⅴ: febuxostat. A total of 5 898 visits (60%) chieved manifestations of joint pain VAS scores target, and the most frequently used drug to control joint symptoms was NSAIDs. The frequency of use of drugs to control joint symptoms were 2 118 times (usage rate reached 35.9%), while the frequency of ULT were 2 504 times (usage rate reached 42.5%), which was higher than the joint symptom control drug. The most common treatment options were following: Group Ⅰ: proprietary Chinese medicine-TCM decoction-TCM external treatment-physical exercise; Group Ⅱ: NSAIDs-colchicine hormones; Group Ⅲ: allopurinol, Group Ⅳ: benzbromarone; Group Ⅴ: febuxostat. A total of 59 adverse events occurred during treatment.Conclusion:The proportions of gout patients who reach target serum urate level & good control of joint symptoms are both very low, and ULT and anti-inflammatory prescription patterns are very different from international guidelines, so it is necessary to strengthen the standardized management of gout patients. At the same time, life intervention measures account for a certain proportion of the treatment plans for the T2T population, and further exploration is needed.

Objective: To investigate the feasibility and safety of stent-assisted percutaneous endoscopic necrosectomy (SAPEN) in the treatment of infected pancreatic necrosis (IPN). Methods: The patients with severe acute pancreatitis (SAP) who received the treatment of SAPEN for IPN were sequentially included from January 2018 to September 2018 in the Eastern Theater General Hospital of People′s Liberation Army. The demographic and clinical data were analyzed. The mortality and incidence of major organ dysfunctions were used as the primary observation endpoints. Results: A total of 40 IPN patients were enrolled including 27 men and 13 women. The percutaneous covered stent placement procedures were successful in all cases; the median number of SAPEN operations was 1 (range 1-3), and no operation-related complications occurred. 32 patients were successfully cured by SAPEN, and the treatment effective rate was 80.0%. 5 patients (12.5%) required further open surgery after SAPEN. 12 patients developed new important organ dysfunction and 6 patients eventually died. Conclusions SAPEN was an effective and feasible minimally invasive method for the treatment of IPN, but its technical advantages still need to be further validated in large scale studies.