Báo cáo khoa học: "Recently published papers: Asking the unanswerable – measuring the immeasurable and decontaminating the infected" docx

... that Commentary Recently published papers: Asking the unanswerable – measuring the immeasurable and decontaminating the infected Hardeep S Benepal 1 and Lui G Forni 2 1 Renal and Critical Care Registrar, ... another year in which the intensive care literature has continued to challenge the accepted tenets, and as always one continues to be surprised by the...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 20:20

... Sadler and Williams 3.5 years after PROWESS. They aimed to determine the effect of APC on hospital survival (as described above) and then to investigate the ensuing long-term survival and to analyze ... severe hypoxia in the supine position, then they could crossover to the prone group. If a major complication attributable to prone position occurred, then the patient was rever...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 20:21

... http://ccforum.com/content/7/5/339 Ups and downs in the fight against sepsis Sepsis is a major cause of critical illness, with a mortality rate in the range of 3 0–5 0%. Two landmark papers have been published in the past 18 ... have significantly furthered our ability to manage sepsis and to reduce the high mortality rate associated with it [1,2]. The future seemed brighter...

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... escalated then, thankfully, rescinded. The second theme has been the publication of trials re-investigating areas of ongoing controversy, especially in the final 2 months. The pulmonary artery catheter ... dangers and benefits of this monitoring intervention. December saw the publication of two further large-scale, multicentre trials into the use of pulmonary artery catheters. A...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 20:20

... Kirk-Bayley and Venn ventilation (and therefore to undergo PCT) and so are predisposed to VAP by definition. The only real way to show that these slow weaners are worse off with a PCT would be to randomise ... reduce the incidence of VAP [8], and to show that there are benefits, at least in terms of costs incurred on the ICU and those associated with VAP. Assuming similar costs...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 20:20

... control, renal replacement therapy, and deep venous thrombosis and stress ulcer prophylaxis. Commentary Recently published papers: Bugs, fluids, obesity and food Neil Hall 1 and Gareth Williams 2 1 Specialist ... receiving >25% of their recommended daily caloric intake. Given the potential morbidity and mortality associated with nosocomial infection and the effects of l...

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... only noted if the rVIIa was administered within 3 hours of the occurrence of symptoms. Thromboembolic complications, a concern with the use of rVIIa, occurred in 7% of the rVIIa group and 2% of the placebo ... of the placebo group (P = 0.12). In the placebo group these were all venous in origin and not serious, whereas in the rVIIa group most were arterial. Of these the...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 22:22

... between the inclusion and exclusion criteria of the studies. The authors acknowledge this limitation. The hospital and 30-day mortality rates were no different between the two groups, and the risk for ... using the thermodilution technique. The group found excellent correlation between Cv–a CO 2 and Mv–aCO 2 , with a correlation coefficient across all diagnoses and c...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 22:22

... success. Nitric oxide: the end of lung therapy but a newly discovered role in the stomach The European experts have considered the evidence and published their recommendations regarding the use of inhaled ... follow up were 5.5 in the treatment arm and 1.0 in the placebo arm. The authors’ well argued discussion and the accompanying editorial [16] both conclude that a...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 22:22

... correlating the troponin test with other tests – certainly the ECG – in all patients. Treating the obese in ICU A subject rarely out of the popular press these days is that of the obesity epidemic and ... differences in the baseline characteristics of the two groups as well as non-standardisation of volume Commentary Recently published papers: Treating sepsis, mea...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:20