Báo cáo y học: " Clinical review: Vasculitis on the intensive care unit – part 1: diagnosis" doc

... abstracts of nosocomial infection in intensive care units in Europe: results of the European Prevalence of Infection in Intensive Care (EPIC) Study; EPIC International Advisory Committee. JAMA 1995, ... Short- course empiric antibiotic therapy for patients with pulmonary infiltrates in the intensive care unit. A proposed solution for indiscriminate antibiotic p...

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... presentations of these conditions and the role of the critical care physician in their diagnosis and management. Keywords antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody, critical care, Churg–Strauss syndrome, ... Scott DGI: Primary systemic vasculitis. Rheum Dis 2003, 11:1 -8. 7. Conron M, Beynon HL: Churg–Strauss syndrome. Thorax 2000, 55:870-877. 8. Clark JA: Unraveling the mystery: clues to...

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... unnecessary immunosuppressive therapy. In this second part of the review we consider the role played by the ICU in their treatment and look at the prognosis of the fulminant presentations. Although there ... to the ICU patients with fulminant vasculitis may be hypotensive because of a combination of dehydration, haemorrhage and systemic inflammatory response syndrome. As...

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... Changes in the incidence and outcome for early acute injury in a cohort of Australian intensive care units. Crit Care 2007, 11:R68. 2. Ympa YP, Sakr Y, Reinhart K, Vincent JL: Has mortality from acute ... to rely on, and improve, the clinical clock. Currently, consensus definitions for AKI exist and are being increasingly used in the literature [7,8]. The advent...

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... accountability is mediated through the administrators contributing to the implicated system-level errors. Commentary Pharmacotherapeutic friendly fire in the intensive care unit: high stakes seeking high ... process. They discuss vulnerability, error definition and measurement, and methods to improve the process and outcomes of pharmacotherapy in the ICU. The...

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... after having recruited 6,100 patients [5]. Third, further aggravating the problem of power, the study turned out to realize intensive insulin therapy, but without tight glycaemic control. The median ... Bouillon R: Intensive insulin therapy in the medical ICU. N Engl J Med 2006, 354:449-461. 4. Krinsley JS: Effect of an intensive glucose management proto- col on the m...

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... time by changing the format of the ward round, this is an issue that needs to be recognized, anticipated, and Commentary Clinical information systems in the intensive care unit: primum non nocere Stephen ... by Morrison and colleagues [1] provides an important insight into another potential problem introduced by computing tech- nology in the ICU. These investigators...

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... RRT in the ICU might be a greater determining factor of outcome in critically ill acute kidney injury patients than the dose of dialysis. Finally, despite the previous seminal study [2] by the ... J, Hoy L, Haller H, Fliser D, Kielstein JT: The Hannover Dialysis Outcome Study: comparison of standard versus intensified extended dialysis for patients with acute kidne...

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... needed for patients with diabetes and patients with stress hyperglycemia. â 2010 BioMed Central Ltd Patients with diabetes in the intensive care unit; not served by treatment, yet protected? Sarah ... only of patients with a history of insulin-treated diabetes.  is defi nition does not classify between type 1 and type 2 diabetes, and from the large typ...

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... fi nally adapting the insulin infusion are very demand- ing for ICU staff . In addition, guidelines and protocols to steer the insulin infusion are mostly rough guides and experience and intuition ... critically ill patients. TGC with intensive insulin therapy increases the workload and responsibility for bedside nurses. Frequent blood testing, interpretation of the bl...

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... Sankaran RT, Mattana J, Pollack S, Bhat P, Ahuja T, Patel A, Singhal PC: Laboratory abnormalities in patients with bacterial pneumonia. Chest 1997, 111:595-600. 58. Vaidyanathan D, Venkatesan ... present, such as respiratory alkalosis, administration of insulin, and the use of diuretics. This is particularly true for major surgery, such as cardiac surgery and abdominal aortic surgery...

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... Pseudomonas aeruginosa acquisition on an intensive care unit: relationship between antibiotic selective pressure and patients’ environment. Critical Care 2011 15:R55. Submit your next manuscript ... 15:R55 http://ccforum.com/content/15/1/R55 Page 10 of 10 RESEARCH Open Access Pseudomonas aeruginosa acquisition on an intensive care unit: relationsh...

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... organism rather than the source of infection may be more important in determining outcome. Finding an association between illness severity and incidence of BSI in the ICU is in keeping with pr ... Ageing and infection. Lancet Infect Dis 2002, 2:659-666. doi:10.1186/cc10114 Cite this article as: Prowle et al.: Acquired bloodstream infection in the intensive care...

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