Báo cáo y học: "Cisapride decreases gastric content aspiration in mechanically ventilated patients" pps

... motility in mechanically ventilated critically ill patients: a manometric study. Crit Care Med 1994, 24:441–447. 4. Heyland DK, Toudas G, King D, Cook CJ: Impaired gastric emptying in mechanically ventilated ... prevent in part gastric content aspiration. Apart from position, agents, such as erythromycin and cisapride, increase the gastric motility and they could accele...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:20

... L/min, increasing significantly during the procedure to 60 ± 6.54 L/min (p < 0.001), diminishing to 35 ± 8.17 L/min at 10 minutes and to 36 ± 8.48 L/min at 30 minutes. Hemodynamic and oxygenation ... safety in patients submitted to a coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG). Method Study population Fifteen patients (11 men, 60 ± 8 years) in their first cardiac surgery were prospecti...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 09:22

... 86% of the biopsied patients by carefully correlating clinical findings with microbiologic and pathologic findings using established crite- ria, including those for interstitial lung diseases [12]. ... This discrepancy can be partly explained by the definition for specific diagnosis used in the study. In studies with a high diagnostic rate, pathologic findings consistent with interstitial...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 08:20

... results reported by Martinez- Lavin [44], who discussed FMS as a sympathetically main- tained pain syndrome. Increased DBP appears to be con- nected to pain intensity (r = 0.32, p < 0.05). It ... Adaptation (30 minutes): sitting quietly in a chair with eyes open. 2. Resting BL (4 minutes): sitting quietly with eyes open and to move as little as possible. 3. Relaxation (REL1, 4 minutes):...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 07:20

... associated with hypomanic syndrome (a) or hypomanic symptoms (b); 3) BD minor:dysthymia,minordepressionorrecur- rent brief depression associated with hypomanic syn- drome (a) or hypomanic symptoms (b); 4) ... evaluated with the diagnos- tic instruments and symptoms rating scales without any kind of intervention. All assessors had reliability training for applying the instruments and the diagn...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 15:22

... mechanics and dynamic hyperinflation in mechanically ventilated COPD patients. There are several limitations to our study. Since the optimal dose of inhaled β2-agonists in mechanically ventilated ... administration that minimum inspiratory resistance (R int ) remained less than 85% of baseline in each patientTime after salmeterol administration that minimum inspiratory resistanc...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:23

... hospitalized elderly adults will continue to in- crease in the coming decades. The National Health Inter- view Survey reports that in the United States in 1994, 8.3 million individuals over 65 years of ... obtained for each behavioral category. The NPI-Q takes approximately 10 minutes to administer. In the current study the caregiver was a mem- ber of the nursing staff caring for th...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 20:23

... clinical response, suggesting that their RA was not much driven by TNF-α activity alone but probably by other cytokines or mechanisms. The heterogeneity in these patterns may be explained by higher ... functional assay for TNF-α activity was designed using the ability of RA synoviocytes to produce IL-6 and OPG in response to TNF-α [5]. To isolate synoviocytes, RA synovial tissues were fin...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 06:22

... clearly in keeping with the growing body of evi- dence demonstrating that nonimmune mechanisms are involved in weakness induction in myositis [15] and that these mechanisms likely cause weakness by ... energy metabolism [9,10], possibly due to disruption of local microcirculation [11], as well as cytokine dysfunction [12-14], are likely involved in weakness induction. More recently st...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 07:20

... example, chondrocytes are known to upregulate the production of their own pro-inflammatory cytokines, including IL-1β and tumor necrosis factor-α, under the influence of proinflammatory cytokines present in ... harvested after 10 to 12 days of expansion by trypsin-EDTA (BioWhittaker) treat- ment. Cell yields and viability were monitored by trypan blue staining using a Neubauer hematocytomet...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:20