... [3]. What this book adds to these important issues
is that it demonstrates considerable variability in the
rationales toward application of the principle of medical
futility, and variation in the ... survival for that patient’ [4],
and reasoned that such therapy could reasonably be
withheld without consent from patients or their families.
Several years later, the Society for Crit...
... site of resuscitation or in the ambulance.
Conclusions
This observational cohort study demonstrates that spon-
taneous hypothermia on ICU admission after resuscita-
tion for primary cardiac arrest ... contributions
AdH and LR retrieved the data and built the database. AdH performed the
analysis and wrote the manuscript drafts. ACdP designed the study and
coached the an...
... intubation often requires
the administration of systemic sedation, with attendant compli-
cations. Finally, the incidence of ventilator-associated pneu-
monia is related directly to the duration ... 157 eligible patients, only 112 completed the study because of physician bias and
incomplete information; and only 14 patients entered the second randomization. ICU, intensive ca...
... regenera-
tion, biomaterials and artificial conduits for nerve
reconstruction, and clinical applications, such as tubuli-
zation and end-to-side neurorrhaphy. The international
and multidisciplinary panel ... interest, the International Sym-
posium "Peripheral Nerve Repair and Regeneration and
2nd Club Burnelli Meeting" was held at the Department
of Animal a...
... efficacy rate was 88%. The median follow-up time was 35 months (range
13-47 months), and the 3-year overall survival rate was 92%. Patients rapidly achieved reconstitution of
hematopoiesis. The ... ignored. Intensive immunosup-
pressive therapy, such as combined anti-thymocyte
globulin (ATG) and cyclosporine (CSA), has an average
onset of efficacy of 3-7 months and an efficacy r...
... quantifying changes in protein
phosphorylation
Cell signaling is often mediated by post-translational
modifications that modify protein conformation, localiza-
tion, activity and stability. Generally, ... strategy, further demonstrated by Ruedi Aebersold (also at
the Institute for Molecular Systems Biology), that alleviates
some of the current limitations. The first step consists of...
... program, and 28 for the nursing and physiotherapy ses-
sions. The 3-day program included 39 thematic sessions, 72
sessions dedicated to oral or poster presentations of
abstracts, and nine educational ... indicate that
pretreatment with itraconazole, anisodamine, and ramipril
attenuated the severity of endotoxin-induced pulmonary
inflammatory response, namely via a decrease in t...
... automated and sophisticated variability
parameters are yet available for application in the critically ill.
The investigator must always verify the data before
computing the variability estimates. ... variability decreases. Even low-frequency
variability in heart rate – a parameter that traditionally was
considered a marker of sympathetic activity in conditions of
Commentary
Variabi...
... antibiotic therapy could
eventually be withheld in the absence of a strong clinical sus-
picion of infection.
Conclusion
The data of the present study indicate that daily CRP determi-
nations could ... CRP and WCC were
measured at admission and then daily until discharge or death.
The temperature was evaluated hourly and daily extreme val-
ues were recorded. Patients were eval...
... additionally improved one-year
survival, the effect probably depending on a lesser likelihood
of oversedation [8]. Modifying sedation regimens may also
modify patients memory panorama from the ... in critically ill patients needing
sedation. A major underlying problem in applying EEG monitors in
the ICU is that they have been developed for measuring anesthetic
depth and the relate...