Báo cáo y học: "Recently published papers: Take your predictions with a drop of saline … and breathe deeply before turning on your phone" ppt

... spent on mechanical ventilation or in the duration of renal replacement therapy between the two treatment groups. The study was pragmatically planned, dictating only the fluid resuscitation of the ... the patients, leaving clinicians free to manage all other aspects of the patients’ care as they saw fit. This freedom was controlled by stratification of randomization such that indivi...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 20:20

... Schweikert RA, Saliba WI, Burkhardt JD, Kilikaslan F, Saad E, Natale A: Brief communication: atrial–esophageal fistulas after radiofrequency ablation. Ann Intern Med 2006, 144:572-574. Available online ... lead, perhaps inevitably, to unforeseen complications. Radiofrequency ablation around the pulmonary vein is rapidly becoming the treatment modality of choice for patients with both par...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:24

... condition that is known to carry a high mortality rate, and it may be that the time for a larger outcome trial approaches. The March/April edition of Intensive Care Monitor [7] comments on a paper ... 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 Y, Nakamur...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:21

... results. Another surrogate of nutritional and overall health status is haemoglobin concentration. An observational study conducted in over 2000 patients who underwent coronary artery bypass surgery ... studies will address this. The alternative is of course to befriend an amenable surgeon. An alternative approach to accelerate recovery of gastrointestinal motility may be effective sal...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:21

... the hands of Neumann and DeLegge [21], 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 ... 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 Webe...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 19:21

... verge on unity, pointing out the problems of analysis with just so many variables. One day soon someone may take up the gauntlet of a matched interventional study so that we can really be sure that ... Association of Neurological Surgeons, Joint Section on Neurotrauma and Critical Care: Guidelines for the management of severe head injury. Brain Trauma Foundation, American...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 19:21

... that unbridled sedation, given with best of intentions, is harmful in terms of ventilator and ICU days and consequently outcome, and that a sedation protocol including daily cessation of sedative ... and how often? These are important questions but they are not easily answered. Anxiolysis, analgesia, amnesia and sedation are just a few of the elements to be considered....

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 19:22

... study that will attract most attention is that by Sandham and coworkers [4]. This is an impressive randomized trial that compared goal-directed therapy guided by pulmonary artery catheter with ... estimate pulmonary artery occlusion pressure (PAOP) from the pulsatile pulmonary artery waveform [5]. Personally, I found this particularly intriguing. Many of us use the pulmonary artery cath...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 19:22

... T, Vaagenes P, Auestad BH, Steen PA: Delaying defibrillation to give basic cardiopul- monary resuscitation to patients with out -of- hospital ventricu- lar fibrillation: a randomized trial. JAMA ... 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 cent of patie...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 19:22

... produced as part of the septic inflammatory process because the coagulation cascade is activated too. Carraway and coworkers [4] have already shown that pretreating baboons with active site-inactivated factor ... human sepsis? Time and more research will tell. Commentary Recently published papers: inflammation, elucidation, manipulation? Justin Kirk-Bayley 1 and Richard Venn 2 1...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 19:22