Báo cáo y học: "Recently published papers: small pieces of the puzzle and the long-term view" pps

... They reported an alarmingly high incidence of peripheral neurological deficits on examination (13/22, 59% of Commentary Recently published papers: small pieces of the puzzle and the long-term view Jonathan ... study undoubtedly provides further evidence to support the enormous ongoing efforts to tackle this phenomenon. Obesity Against the background of the glob...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 19:22

... specific early exercise and mobilisation (physical and occupational therapy). In their group of 104 patients, early physical and occupational therapy significantly increased the number of patients ... to Commentary Recently published papers: A review of novel strategies in the prevention of hospital-acquired infections, the ability of intensivists to perform echocard...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 18:22

... suggestion is the possibility of diuretic responsiveness imbuing a false sense of security, resulting in delayed renal replacement therapy. However, in the study reported by Mehta and coworkers ... days, and ICU and hospital duration of stay did not differ between the groups. Although no outcome benefit was demonstrated in this trial and the authors admitted that in thei...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 19:22

... of breathing a hydrogen oxygen atmosphere and half to nitrogen oxygen. The anti-inflammatory effects of the hydrogen were very striking. The impracticality of repeating this study in any clinical ... mitochondrial therapies yet prove to be the therapies that end the optimal inopressor debate? Hydrogen? Staying in the realm of novel therapies, hydrogen may also be in ICUs...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 08:20

... DECREASE series [10] by Poldermans and colleagues, which were “mainly observational, done primarily only on vascular surgery patients and in only one country in the world”. However, patients in these series ... patients in the POISE study. Steroids for meningitis and acute respiratory distress syndrome The study by Mongelluzzo and co-workers [11] aimed to evaluate the relation...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:22

... insulin therapy (between 10.0 and 11.1 mmol/L). The primary end point of ICU mortality was used. A plethora of secondary end points were assessed, including rates of hypoglycaemia. Results showed there ... mortality. On the other hand, mortality may not have been affected because the interventions were ineffective. This needs further study. Competing interests The authors decl...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 15:21

... recent paper on the effects of methylprednisolone in unresolving acute respiratory distress syndrome [10], and may account for a therapeutic modality by which high-dose steroid therapy works. It ... levels is of significance because this proinflammatory cytokine has been correlated with severity of septic shock, and this may explain the quicker resolution of organ-related morb...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:21

... to accelerate recovery of gastrointestinal motility may be effective salt and water balance. In a study by Lobo and colleagues [4], prompted by Commentary Recently published papers: We are what ... study reported by Yap and coworkers [7]. They retrospectively studied more than 1000 patients over an 18-month period, their hypothesis being that serum hypoalbuminaemia may be predicti...

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... in the case of negative results. Criticism of their investigation might include the small study number and lack of any outcome benefit demonstrated, although this was not the aim of the study. ... nasogastric tube and to only employ the alternatives in cases of failure. The long-term success of renal allografts from nonheart- beating donors is reported by Weber...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 19:21

... surgery, trauma and sepsis patients. Their findings confirmed further that when therapy is aimed at improving oxygen delivery (especially in the severely ill, in whom control group mortality was ... further implicating involvement of the neuroendocrine system in sepsis, have they found a highly predictive marker? Time and further investigation will surely tell. Are we drawing too ma...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 19:21