Báo cáo y học: "Rotating antibiotics in the intensive care unit: feasible, apparently beneficial, but questions remain" docx

... structurally unrelated antibiotics at once. Mobile genetic elements that encode for numerous Commentary Rotating antibiotics in the intensive care unit: feasible, apparently beneficial, but questions ... January 2002 Critical Care 2002, 6:9-10 © 2002 BioMed Central Ltd (Print ISSN 1364-8535; Online ISSN 1466-609X) Abstract Rotating antibiotics in the intensive...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:21

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:21

... also varied. These ICU delirium screening instruments differ in the components of delirium they evaluate, in their threshold for diagnosing delirium, and in their ability to be used in patients ... authors acknowledge, it is unknown whether using an ordinal approach versus a binary one will improve the predictive value of the Commentary Delirium assessment in the intensive...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 08:21

... a rise in serum creatinine by >300% from baseline). A total of 797 patients had pre- existing ESRF and 2,782 patients had advanced AKI, of Letter Renal failure in the intensive care unit: acute ... when they are admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU). Patients with advanced AKI have a reported ICU mortality between 25% and 90%, depending on the specific patient popul...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:23

... sub- stantial involvement in revising and drafting the article, and in interpreting the data. All authors contributed to drafting and revising the article, and approved the final manuscript. Key messages • ... com- monly used agent. Discussion Sedation scoring The majority of responding ICUs (88%) in our survey use a sedation scoring system. This has increased considerably sin...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:23

... therapy. Although a study by Bernard and colleagues [2] showed that intra venous ibuprofen was eff ective in diminishing the severity of hyperthermia in patients with acute lung injury, there ... such therapy can be considered for routine use. Concerns about the use of intravenous ibuprofen in the ICU are further magnifi ed by the lack of any sugges tion of clinical benefi t...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 21:20

... and the motorcyclist constituted the majority of motorcycle injury victims. Findings from this study calls for urgent interventions targeting at reducing the occurrence of RTCs and subsequently ... Data administered in the questionnaire included details of demographic profile, causes of injury, injury characteristics, injury severity using Glasgow Coma scale (GCS) and injury sever...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 23:20

... were they conceived to meet the unique challenges we face in the ICU. Now, we are asking that the ethical principles be stretched to encompass the uncertainty, the risks, the benefits and the ... quality of these lives saved. At the crossroads of medical and surgical fields, at the forefront of technology, with its capacity for extensive haemodynamic and clinical monitorin...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 20:20

... level intensive care physicians, and conversely it requires the intensivist to have access to the intensive care unit (ICU). The strategic use of information technology (IT) has become one of the ... appearance of the patient’s breathing are much easier to appreciate when they are seen directly by the physician rather than being conveyed by a third party. Telepresence is u...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 22:22

... interests. Authors' contributions All authors contributed substantially to the study. JGMH ana- lyzed and interpreted the data and drafted the manuscript. PES conceived of the study, contributed to the interpretation and ... D, Gyldmark M: Evaluating and Understanding of Costs in the Intensive Care Unit. In Current practice in Critical Illness Edited by: Ryan DW. Lo...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 08:20