Báo cáo khoa học: "Recently published papers: all the usual suspects and carbon dioxide" pps

... this technique in other Commentary Recently published papers: all the usual suspects and carbon dioxide Jonathan Ball Lecturer in Intensive Care Medicine, Department of Anaesthesia, St George’s ... especially in the final 2 months. The pulmonary artery catheter is safe, but is it useful? Since 1996, when Connors and colleagues published data suggesting right heart cath...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 20:20

... 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 results. The study conducted by Finney and ... 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 Re...

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... 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 ... insertion, but the vast majority of these were clinically insignificant. Hopefully, this should end the safety debate and allow research resources to be directed towa...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 22:22

... evaluated in the context of the critically ill patient. For the moment, we should be giving ourselves a chance to make the diagnosis by correlating the troponin test with other tests – certainly the ECG ... differences in the baseline characteristics of the two groups as well as non-standardisation of volume Commentary Recently published papers: Treating sepsis, measuring...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:20

... 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 30–50%. 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. Fo...

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... 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 ... the ICU and those associated with VAP. Assuming similar costs elsewhere, notwithstanding the benefits of oral decontamination, perhaps this is a strategy we should all be...

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... 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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... 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 most common were cerebral infarction, ... 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...

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 ... intubation, and late was defined as any time thereafter, if at all. The results showed that the duration of artificial ventilation was significantly lower in the e...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 22:22

... but how often do we use it? And finally, several papers have recently appeared in the journals related to the admission of the elderly to the critical care area and their outcome. Community-acquired ... care and for mechanical ventilation. The durations of ventilation and hospital stay were more prolonged than for the non-alcoholic group. The ex-alcoholic data show that...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 03:20