... were hemodynamic instability necessitating the use of an IABP, cardiogenic shock, bleeding diathesis prohibiting the use of aspirin or heparin, precatheterization administration of thrombolytic therapy, ... partial reperfusion of the IRA. Rescue angioplasty was not attempted in any of these patients. This study randomized patients at the end of initial coronary angiograp...
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... occur in the setting of infection, and it is possible that the primary genetic lesions in autoimmunity involve components of the same system that induces cytokine production in the course of an infection. ... presence of an infection. The effector limb of the response During the decade of the 1980s, one of the key discoveries in sepsis research concerne...
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Báo cáo y học: "Science review: Redox and oxygen-sensitive transcription factors in the regulation of oxidant-mediated lung injury: κ role for nuclear factor-κ" pdf
... infiltration into the lungs and to increased pulmonary proinflammatory cytokine expression [7]. However, the initial events induced by hyperoxia, thereby leading to acute inflammatory lung injury, remain ... phosphorylation. Anti-inflammatory cytokine-mediated oxidant injury Another anti-inflammatory cytokine that is involved as a reg- ulatory element in lung injury is IL-11. Fo...
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Báo cáo y học: "Science review: Redox and oxygen-sensitive transcription factors in the regulation of oxidant-mediated lung injury: α role for hypoxia-inducible factor-1α" pptx
... lipopolysaccharide- induced proinflammatory cytokine biosynthesis in an I κκ B- αα /NF- κκ B-dependent mechanism. Evidence for the amplification of an antiinflammatory pathway in the alveolar epithelium. ... February 2003 Vol 7 No 1 Haddad 50 DNA binding. In hypoxia, cytokines strongly increased HIF-1 activity compared with the effect of hypoxia alone. Only IL-1β increased...
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Báo cáo y học: "Clinical review: The role of the intensive care physician in mass casualty incidents: planning, organisation, and leadership" pot
... Capacity (including staffing) How do we ensure that security (including checking of staff identity) is maintained? Who is the lead intensivist and who is the senior nurse? Are their roles clearly ... explosive-type disaster yields low numbers of critically injured patients, over-triage is likely to be a problem, with the attendant risk of increasing overall mortality [12]. On the...
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Báo cáo y học: "Clinical review: The role of biomarkers in the diagnosis and management of communityacquired pneumonia" potx
... appropriate ther- apy, and use of the procedure will probably become the standard of care in the next few years. Indicators of prognosis CAP is the leading cause of death from infection in west- ern ... surprisingly poor predictors for the diagno- sis of CAP. e added value of the PCT biomarker as a clinical decision-making tool is evidenced in the present...
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Báo cáo y học: "Clinical review: What is the role for autopsy in the ICU" doc
... of the growing impact of the opinions of patients and their relatives, physicians are often forced to discuss necropsy with them. As a result, the autopsy rate in France has markedly declined ... ICU. Autopsies allow the accuracy of existing diagnostic tools to be checked. One example may clarify this matter. e role of Candida spp. in the airways of critical...
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Báo cáo y học: " Meta-review of the effectiveness of computerised CBT in treating depression" pps
... Embase, CINAHL (EBSCO), the British Nursing Index, the Cochrane Library, and PsycINFO. All systematic reviews examining efficacy of cCBT for depression with or without anxiety in adults were included ... the outset, limited to the last ten years (initially search ing 1999 to 2009 , then updating to Feb 2011). The evolutionary development of cCBT and its reliance on ever-increa...
Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 15:22
Báo cáo y học: "Systematic review: The relation between nutrition and nosocomial pneumonia: randomized trials in critically ill patients" doc
... gastric contents has not been convincingly demonstrated, these trials are in keeping with the gastropulmonary route of infection. The gastropulmonary route of infection is a concept at least two ... significantly higher in samples obtained while patients were supine than when they were semirecumbent. In another study, scintigraphic evidence of esophageal reflux was found in...
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Báo cáo y học: "Science review: Role of coagulation protease cascades in sepsis" ppt
... (pericytes, cardiomyocytes, smooth muscle cells, keratinocytes) and by vascular monocytes and endothelial cells upon induction by inflammatory cytokines or endotoxin [3]. TF is the high-affinity ... increas- ing preclinical and clinical evidence that proteases of the coagulation system affect the inflammatory response, inde- pendent of their role in initiating and controlling bl...
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