The Intensive Care Manual - part 5 pps

... post-HD Ampicillin-sulbactam 1 .5 3 g q6h Cr Cl: 30 50 1 .5 3 g q6–8h 15 29 1 .5 3 g q12h 5 14 1 .5 3 g q24h Piperacillin-tazobactam 3.3 75 g q6h Cr Cl: 20–40 2. 25 g q6h 4 .5 g q6h d < 20 2. 25 g ... for en- zymes that synthesize new cell-wall precursors. These cell-wall precursors end in D -alanine-lactate, instead of the usual D-alanine-alanine, which is the binding site of va...

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... permission of the publisher. The material in this eBook also appears in the print version of this title: 0-0 7-0 0669 6 -5 . All trademarks are trademarks of their respective owners. Rather than put ... ICUs. The book is organ- ized in organ-specific chapters. This was done to increase the utility of and simplify the use of this manual. The organ specific approach parallel...

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... relatively 32 The Intensive Care Manual FIGURE 2–1 Anatomy of the femoral triangle. The femoral vein is the most medial neurovas- cular structure within the femoral triangle. The palpable landmark is the ... tis- sue. The subclavian vein crosses under the clavicle, medial to the midclavicular line. The vein is most often entered at the junction of the outer one...

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... synthesized to arrive at a working theory: does the patient have the capacity to breathe spontaneously or not? The criteria are best used in this way. 96 The Intensive Care Manual TABLE 4 5 Weaning ... modes is beyond the scope of this chapter, and the reader is referred to in-depth discussions of mechanical ventilation 5 and a re- cent review article. 6 80 The Intensi...

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... origin. 5 Basic premises for these criteria are that the more fragmented the initial QRS forces are and the wider the QRS duration is, the more likely there is a ventricular origin of the tachycardia. ... to have one placed anteriorly under the right clavicle to the right of the sternum and the other at the level of the left nipple in the midaxillary line. The re...

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... EA. Optimization of ascitic fluid culture tech- nique. Gastroenterology 1988; 95: 1 351 . 294 The Intensive Care Manual ch11.qxd 11/7/01 4:18 PM Page 294 5. Sugawa C, Steffes CP, Nakamura R, et al. ... al. Does transfusion practice affect mortality in criti- cally ill patients? Am J Respir Crit Care Med 1997; 155 :1618. 318 The Intensive Care Manual ch12.qxd 11/7/01 4:18 PM...

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... 149– 152 neurologic disorders in, 152 respiratory failure in, 150 – 152 , 151 t antibiotic therapy for, 150 causative microorganisms, 151 t sepsis in, 152 HIV infection, 63 transmission by needle-stick injury, ... 255 Radiologic studies, in acute pancreatitis, 257 Ramsay scale, 350 , 350 f Ranitidine, 129 for Helicobacter pylori infection, 249t Ranson criteria, for acute pancreatitis,...

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... is still approximately 50 % for those requiring admission to intensive care unit. Furthermore, there is a high morbidity associated with both the diseases themselves and the treatment. Introduction Systemic ... consider the role played by the ICU in their treatment and look at the prognosis of the fulminant presentations. Although there is a firm evidence base for first- line...

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... proposed that these hemody- namic changes are the result of the low - pressure, high - volume arteriovenous shunting that characterizes the uteroplacental cir- culation. A third hypothesis is that ... 58 20 38 65 1960 51 RBC volume 20 65 158 0 4 85 31 Hematocrit 35. 5 41.0 – – Reproduced by permission from Pritchard JA. Changes in the blood volume during pregnancy...

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