Signa Vitae

Print ISSN: 1334-5605 | Online ISSN: 1845-206X

Signa Vitae (SV) is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal that aims to be an unbiased and permanent forum for the fields of emergency medicine, intensive care medicine, anesthesia and pain medicine. It focuses on the latest research advances in these fields, including Disease prevention, diagnose, treatment and prognosis, Disease etiology, pathophysiology, and molecular mechanisms, Health care, Medical personnel health, Facilities and equipment, Teaching and training, Organization and management, Information and techniques, Drug application, etc. As a tool for easier and more effective experiences and science sharing, SV aims to provide professionals dedicated to all these relevant fields with cutting-edge techniques and information.



Early postoperative cognitive decline—are there any preventive strategies for surgical patients in the emergency setting?

Articles

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Serious complications associated with nasogastric, orogastric or enteral tube misplacement over the decades: a systematic review

Federica Morselli,Rosario Losiggio,Corinne Caldei,Silvia Ferro,Andrey Yavorovskiy,Giovanni Landoni,Stefano Fresilli

DOI: 10.22514/sv.2025.015

Abstract ( 641 ) PDF (2.55 MB) ( 147 ) Full Text

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Analysis of patient-related factors associated with post-discharge adverse events in older patients quickly discharged home after emergency department care with no complementary investigations

Guillermo Burillo-Putze,Montserrat Rodriguez-Cabrera,Patricia Parra-Esquivel,Aitor Alquézar,Cesáreo Fernández,Sira Aguiló,Javier Jacob,Francisco Javier Montero-Pérez,Eric Jorge García-Lamberechts,Pascual Piñera,Claudia Marinero-Noval,Leire Paramas-Lopez,Diana Rosendo-Mesino,Lidia Cuevas-Jiménez,Aarati Vaswani-Bolchand,María Consuelo Quesada-Martínez,María Luisa Pérez Díaz-Guerra,Claudia Lorena Amarilla-Molinas,Matilde González-Tejera,Jésica Mansilla-Collado,María Caballero-Martínez,Ferran Llopis,Lucía Zambrano-Serrano,Valle Toro-Gallardo,Fahd Beddar-Chaib,Paula Pedraza-Ramírez,Juan González-del-Castillo,Òscar Miró

DOI: 10.22514/sv.2025.017

Abstract ( 554 ) PDF (2.36 MB) ( 163 ) Full Text

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Diagnostic accuracy and reliability of fiberoptic bronchoscopy in lung injury due to inhalation burns

Gülten Arslan,Sezer Yakupoğlu,Kemal Tolga Saraçoglu,Şaban Alver,Özlem Sezen,Pawel Ratajczyk,Ayten Saraçoğlu

DOI: 10.22514/sv.2025.018

Abstract ( 633 ) PDF (1.03 MB) ( 139 ) Full Text

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Predictive value of inflammatory indices in acute cholecystitis: a retrospective study of gallstone detection and outcome assessment

Mehmet Göktuğ Efgan,Ejder Saylav Bora,Semih Musa Coşkun,Süleyman Kırık,Ahmet Kayalı

DOI: 10.22514/sv.2024.134

Abstract ( 1221 ) PDF (4.86 MB) ( 213 ) Full Text

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Electrocardiogram changes during the induction of ventricular fibrillation and resuscitation in a rabbit cardiac arrest model induced by esophageal electrodes

Jiaozhen Chen,Wenxing Song,Xinran Dang,Qin Chen,Huiping Li,Weijia Huang,Shouquan Chen,Zhangping Li,Yuanli Lei

DOI: 10.22514/sv.2025.022

Abstract ( 558 ) PDF (9.82 MB) ( 134 ) Full Text

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Perfusion index in the follow-up of postoperative pain: hypertensive patient sample

Harun Tolga Duran,Mehmet Kızılkaya,İsmail Can Durak,Oğuzhan Hünük,Serkan Taştan,Mürsel Kahveci,Osman Özgür Kılınç

DOI: 10.22514/sv.2025.026

Abstract ( 648 ) PDF (1.21 MB) ( 148 ) Full Text

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Postoperative recurarization undetected by neuromuscular monitoring

Gyuho Nahm,Kye Min Kim,Sangseok Lee,In-Jung Jun

DOI: 10.22514/sv.2025.028

Abstract ( 499 ) PDF (2.31 MB) ( 157 ) Full Text

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Effects of bupivacaine wound infiltration and transversus abdominus plane block on healing and postoperative adhesion of colonic anstomosis in rats

Sevgi Kesici,Yahya Kaan Karatepe,Sibel Oba,Mahmut Salih Genç,Ahmet Furkan Mazlum,Kubra Bozali,Mehmet Guray Duman,Tamer İmamoglu,Eray Metin Guler,Ugur Kesici

Online publish date: 19 February 2025

DOI: 10.22514/sv.2025.029

Abstract ( 238 ) PDF (199.97 kB) ( 148 ) Full Text

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Development of a real-time monitoring and detection indoor air quality system for intensive care unit and emergency department

Special Issues

Special issue title:

Optimization of Cardiovascular Dynamics in Critical Care Medicine and Anesthesiology

Keywords: Critical Care Medicine; Anesthesiology; Cardiovascular Dynamics; Hemodynamics

Editor: Prof. Dr. Athanasios Chalkias, MD, MSc, PhD, FESC, FAcadTM, FCP, FESAIC,Dr. Paraskevi Tselioti, MD, PhD

Submission deadline: 31 December 2025

Special issue title:

Critical Interventions: Enhancing Emergency Medical Services through Interdisciplinary Research

Keywords: Emergency Medical Services; Interdisciplinary Research in EMS; Pre-hospital Care Technologies; Crisis Management in Healthcare; Psychological Aspects of EMS; Public Health and Emergency Services

Editor: Prof. Dr. Krzysztof Goniewicz, PhD,Prof. Dr. Ahmed M. Al-Wathinani, PhD

Submission deadline: 28 February 2025

Special issue title:

AI Horizons: Revolutionizing Anesthesia, Critical Care, and Pain Medicine

Keywords: Anesthesia; Critical Care Medicine; Pain Medicine; Artificial Intelligence; Large Language Models; Natural Language Processing; Big Data; Data Science; Machine Learning

Editor: Prof. Marco Cascella

Submission deadline: 31 December 2024

Special issue title:

Advances in Obstetric Anaesthesia

Keywords: Obstetric Anaesthesia; Epidural Analgesia; Remifentanil-PCA; Labour and Delivery Outcomes; Quality Control in Perinatology and Obstetric Anaesthesia; ROTEM; Obstetric Haemorrhage; Preeclampsia

Editor: Prof. Tatjana Stopar Pintarič, MD, PhD, DEAA

Submission deadline: 31 December 2023

Special issue title:

Cardiothoracic anaesthesia and intensive care: current challenges and novelties

Keywords: cardiac anaesthesia, thoracic anaesthesia, intensive care, education, innovation, perioperative medicine, healthcare, outcomes, challenges

Editor: Dr. Marko Zdravkovic, MD, PhD

Submission deadline: 30 November 2022

Special issue title:

Selected papers from Korean Society of Emergency Medicine (KSEM) in 2021-2022

Keywords: Emergency medicine

Editor: Kyungwon Lee, MD, PhD,Young Duck Cho, MD, PhD

Submission deadline: 31 December 2022

Special issue title:

Medical Simulation - success in education, future of science

Keywords: medical simulation, emergency medicine, medical education

Editor: Tomasz Kłosiewicz, MD, MSc,Mateusz Puślecki, PhD

Submission deadline: 31 December 2022

Special issue title:

21st Panhellenic Congress on Regional Anaesthesia, Pain Management and Palliative Care

Keywords: Regional Anaesthesia, Pain Management, Palliative Care, PARH.SY.A., ESRA HELLAS, the A’ Anaesthesiology Department, Faculty of Medicine, University of Athens

Editor: Dr. Ioanna Siafaka, MD, PhD,Dr. Maria Kokolaki, MD, PhD,Dr. Athina Vadalouca, MD, PhD, FIPP,Dr. Evmorfia Stavropoulou, MD, PhD, EDRA,Dr. Eleni Moka, MD, PhD, MSc, EDRA

Submission deadline: 27 May 2022

Special issue title:

Selected papers from Korean Association of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation in 2021

Keywords: Cardiac arrest, Resuscitation, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, guidelines, outcome

Editor: Prof. Won Young Kim, MD, PhD

Submission deadline: 01 June 2022

Special issue title:

Spinal Cord Injury

Keywords: Spinal cord injury (SCI), Damage mechanisms, Primary and secondary medullary lesions, Neurorehabilitation, Neurorestoration

Editor: Lecturer dr. Constantin Munteanu, PhD,Prof. Dr. Gelu Onose,Associate Prof. Dr. Mariana Rotariu, PhD,Assistant Prof. Dr. Gabriela Dogaru, PhD,Associate Prof. Dr. Elena Valentiana IONESCU, PhD,Assistant Prof. Dr. Cristina Daia, PhD

Submission deadline: 31 March 2022

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Editor-in-Chief

Prof. Giovanni Landoni, MD

Prof Giovanni Landoni, MD, is currently Full Professor and Residency Program Director of Anesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine at Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy. He’s also Director of the Center for Intensive Care and Anesthesiology of San Raffaele Hospital in Milan, Italy. His strong clinical and research interests in intensive care and anesthesia resulted in more than 700 scientific publications in indexed journals, cited >20,000 times, h-index=75 on Scopus and 95 on Scholar, including randomized trials on NEJM, Lancet, and JAMA, and over 100 invitations in international congresses. He participated to 47 randomized controlled trials. Prof Landoni was Chief Investigator in successfully completed multicenter randomized clinical trials that randomized > 10,000 critically ill or perioperative patients over the last 10 years. He served as reviewer for over 50 journals (NEJM, JAMA, and The Lancet among others) and for foreign grant agencies, and he is member of the Editorial Board of several international journals.