Báo cáo y học: "Recently published papers: inflammation, elucidation, manipulation" pps

... we may be able to alter and influence the underlying pathophysiology of sepsis. Many reports from those who believe that this may lie in the hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis have recently been published. ... human sepsis? Time and more research will tell. Commentary Recently published papers: inflammation, elucidation, manipulation? Justin Kirk-Bayley 1 and Richard Venn 2 1 Resear...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 19:22

... 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 is difficult ... 359:1209-1210. 5. Malay MB, Ashton RC Jr, Landry DW, Townsend RN: Low-dose vasopressin in the treatment of vasodilatory septic shock. J Trauma 1999, 47:699-703. 6. Tsuneyoshi I, Yamada H, Kakihana...

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 ... recent 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 predictiv...

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... reported by Weber and colleagues [22]. Sadly, adoption of this technique, in the UK at least, awaits the deliberation of the government and judiciary. Finally, if you have been seduced by the attractive ... essentially because nasojejunal tube placement results in a significant delay in the start of feeding. Surely the pragmatic approach is to start with a nasogastric tube and to only employ...

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... further that when therapy is aimed at improving oxygen delivery (especially in the severely ill, in whom control group mortality was greater than 20%), goals must be achieved early, before the development ... nonrecipients. However, scrutiny reveals that the confidence intervals for this verge on unity, pointing out the problems of analysis with just so many variables. One day soon someone ma...

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... authors’ criteria [7]. A wide variety of outcome measures were employed, including costing, quality of sedation, haemodynamic stability and time to extubation, among others. Unsurprisingly, the studies showed ... which, if any, agent is best and the wide variability on what is considered to be a good measure of best sedation. It is probably a case of not what you use but how you use it that r...

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... of severe injury. What the study does highlight is the fact that our knowledge of critical illness polyneuropathy and myopathy is scant. The challenge now is to try to identify risk factors for ... the balloon directed pulmonary artery catheter in the early 1980s. There is some good news for the pulmonary artery catheter enthusiasts – there was no excess mortality in the treatment arm! A repo...

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... 163:451-457. 17. Cooper AB, Thornley KS, Young GB, Slutsky AS, Stewart TE, Hanly PJ: Sleep in critically ill patients requiring mechanical ventilation. Chest 2000, 117:809-818. 18. Gabor JY, Cooper AB, Crombach ... illness has been investigated by Tremblay and Bandi [5]. The large population studied was North American, with a median intensive care unit (ICU) stay of only 2 days. Fifty-six per...

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... medical emergency team (MET; slightly confusing for the exercise physiologists among us!) may reduce adverse outcomes following surgery. In this setting, the MET consisted of the duty intensive care ... of these results is that they perhaps illustrate that the speed by which a patient is reviewed by individuals equipped to deal with any physiological deterioration may dictate the eventual out...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 20:20

... 60-day mortality, but also there was no difference in ventilator-free days, ICU-free days, or organ failure-free days. Lactate clearance From the emergency department in Detroit, home of early goal-directed ... ventilatory strategy in the treatment of acute respiratory distress syndrome. Brower and coworkers [4] looked at the outcome effects of employing high versus low positive end-expirator...

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