Báo cáo y học: "Early tracheostomy in intensive care trauma patients improves resource utilization: a cohort study and literature review" pdf

... Adopting a standardized strategy of early tracheostomy in appropriately selected patients may help in reducing unnecessary resource utilization. Keywords: intensive care, mechanical ventilation, resource ... Arabia Corresponding author: Yaseen Arabi, arabi@ngha.med.sa Abstract Introduction Despite the integral role played by tracheostomy in the management of trauma pat...

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... carcinoma: implica- tion for adjuvant local and systemic therapy. J Clin Oncol 1994, 12:206-212. 7. Shibayama T, Hasegawa S, Nakamura S, Tachibana M, Jitsukawa S, Shi- tani A, Morinaga S: Disappearance ... multidisciplinary team (MDT) meeting and subtotal glossectomy was planned after a staging MRI (magnetic resonant imaging) scan followed by adjuvant radiother- apy to the head and n...

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... time and effort. No direct, online, fully automated and sophisticated variability parameters are yet available for application in the critically ill. The investigator must always verify the data ... absent and sympathetic drive is maximal. As a result, variability decreases. Even low-frequency variability in heart rate – a parameter that traditionally was considered a marker o...

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... Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) score in infected and noninfected patients. The SOFA score (mean ± standard deviation) between day -5 and day 0 of infected patients and noninfected patients ... participated in the original design and in writing the original protocol. PP and LC col- lected and analyzed the data and drafted the manuscript. EA, AF, RM, PM a...

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... increased length of stay and, possibly, increased mortality in ICU patients. Colonization of the oropharyn- geal cavity with potentially pathogenic micro-organisms is instru- mental in the pathogenesis ... In a recent issue of Critical Care Scannapieco and colleagues investigated differences in oro- pharyngeal colonization between mechanically ventilated patients receiving o...

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... carcinoma. A study by immunohisto- chemistry and in situ hybridization. J Pathol 1999, 188(4):361-368. 45. Sathyanarayana UG, Toyooka S, Padar A, Takahashi T, Brambilla E, Minna JD, Gazdar AF: Epigenetic ... 121(4):720-731. 16. Garbe JH, Gohring W, Mann K, Timpl R, Sasaki T: Complete sequence, recombinant analysis and binding to laminins and sulphated ligands of the N-terminal do...

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... significant increase in platelets and antithrombin III (not shown); significant reduction in noradrenaline use (Figure 6); significant reduction in alanine transaminase, aspartate transaminase and creatinine ... tremendous advan ces in critica l care medicine, sepsis is still a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in non-coronary ICUs. In the USA, approximately 215,0...

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... ICU-acquired hyponatraemia and hypernatraemia varies according to patient characteris- tics. • ICU-acquired hyponatraemia and hypernatraemia are associated with increased risk of hospital mortality ... hyponatraemia and hypernatraemia are common in critically ill patients and are associated with increased risk of hospital mortality. Introduction Sodium disturbances, leading to h...

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... atherosclerosis or vascular hyper- trophy [40]. Although other noninvasive markers of early changes in the arterial wall are available (such as arterial wall thickening and stiffening), carotid IMT has been ... immunosorb- ent assay (ELISA) experiments, and was involved in drafting the manuscript or revising it critically. AJS, CGMK, and HB participated in the conception and des...

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... bradykinin is another potent natriuretic agent. This effect is mediated by inhibition of ENaC and Na/K ATPase activity possibly mediated by an increase in intracellular calcium and/ or pH. Bradykinin ... mediators of inflammation, which are found in all types of inflam- matory disease are involved in the changes in ion trans- port. In respiratory tract, gut and kidneys pro-infl...

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