• COVID-19 ARDS: Points to be considered in mechanical ventilation and weaning 

      Kondili E., Makris D., Georgopoulos D., Rovina N., Kotanidou A., Koutsoukou A. (2021)
      The COVID-19 disease can cause hypoxemic respiratory failure due to ARDS, requiring invasive mechanical ventilation. Although early studies reported that COVID-19-associated ARDS has distinctive features from ARDS of other ...
    • Skeletal muscle relaxants in anaesthesiology 

      Benakis, A.; Plessas, C. T.; Plessas, S. T. (1999)
      During the 16th century, European explorers found that the Indians along the Amazon and Orinoco Rivers were using an arrow poison, named curare, that produced death by skeletal paralysis. Curare is one of several different ...