Objective: To analyze the effect of early physiotherapy (ePHYS) on patients' functional quality of life one year after discharge.
Design: Prospective observational study.
Settings: Adult polyvalent ICU.
Patients or participants: Patients with SARS-CoV2 pneumonia requiring invasive mechanical ventilation between March 2020 and July 2022.
Intervention: Early physiotherapy.
Main variables of interest: Quality of life measured by CFS, Barthel and SF36 on ICU admission, at hospital discharge and one year after hospital discharge.
Results: Ninety-nine patients included. In the raw data analysis we observed statistically significant differences in SAPS-3 (MdnNo-ePHYS = 59 [53.5-64.5]; MdnYes-ePHYS = 53 [47-58]; P = .001). After propensity score, we did not observe statistically significant differences except for two SF-36 items: social activities (MdnNo-ePHYS = 56.2 [37.5-71.9]; MdnYes-ePHYS = 75 [62.5-97.5]; P = .004; Wilcoxon r effect size = 0.5) and one-year health transition (MdnNo-ePHYS = 50 [50-75]; MdnYes-ePHYS = 75 [50-100]; P = .031; Wilcoxon r effect size = 0.29), where patients who belonged to NO-ePHYS had lower scores than those who did receive ePHYS.
Conclusions: Despite not having found statistically significant differences in most of the items assessed, we should highlight that patients who received ePHYS reported a clear positive influence on their lives.
Objective: To develop a model capable of predicting risk factors for operative in-hospital mortality in patients diagnosed with acute type A aortic dissection, that includes inflammatory biomarkers and imaging variables of the ascending aorta in the acute phase.
Design: Unicentric retrospective analysis.
Setting: Cardiac surgery unit.
Patients: Adult patients undergoing cardiac surgery after acute type A aortic dissection, during a 11-year period.
Main variables of interest: Pre- and intraoperative risk factors for mortality, inflammatory markers and ascending aortic diameter, at the time of diagnosis.
Results: 120 patients were analysed. The presence of preoperative visceral ischemia (OR) 7.48, 95% confidence interval (CI) (1.98-28.18); (p: 0.003); redo cardiac surgery (OR: 10.07, 95% CI (1.62-62.27); (p: 0.013); preoperative dual antiplatelet therapy (OR: 7.21, 95% CI (1.45-35.69); (p: 0.015) and the neutrophil/lymphocyte ratio (OR: 1.11; 95% CI (1.03-1.20); (p: 0.006) were independent predictors for operative mortality in the analysed sample. These risk factors were included in a model to predict operative mortality, which also included ascending aortic diameter, with an area under the ROC curve of 0,793 ± 0,052; IC 95% (0,691-0,895); (P < 0,0001).
Conclusions: The inclusion of variables that quantify inflammatory activity, as well as imaging variables at the time of diagnosis of acute type A aortic dissection, may contribute to a more accurate estimate of surgical risk.

