Báo cáo y học: "Clinical review: Vasculitis on the intensive care unit – part 2: treatment and prognosis" ppsx

... 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...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 20:20

... attention is paid to the more fulminant presentations of these conditions and the role of the critical care physician in their diagnosis and management. Keywords antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody, ... Churg–Strauss syndrome (CSS) and polyarteritis nodosa (PAN). We explore the diagnosis of these entities in the setting of the ICU and discuss their treatment, with an em...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 20:20

... information systems in the intensive care unit: primum non nocere Stephen E Lapinsky Intensive Care Unit, Mount Sinai Hospital and Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care, University of Toronto, ... information technology to clinical care. The paper by Morrison and colleagues [1] in the previous issue of Critical Care describes the impact of the introduction o...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:23

... May 2010 References 1. Preissig CM, Rigby MR: A disparity between physician attitudes and practice regarding hyperglycemia in pediatric intensive care units in the United States: a survey on ... TGC. Finally, the results of ongoing and future studies regarding TGC in critically ill adults and children can help to close the gap between physicians’ convictions, attitudes,...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 20:22

... in the study by Vesconi and colleagues. Interestingly, there was also no difference in obtained net ultrafiltration between low and intensive dose groups in the VA/NIH trial [7] and a study by ... have been the consequence of external conditions, of which body weight of the patients was the main one. The patients with the lowest dose of CRRT were approximately 33% heavie...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 16:20

... bacteriological study. FV participated in the acquisition of patients’ data and in the conception of the study. GH participated in the conception of the study. DG conceived the study, participated in ... the design of the study, performed the statistical analysis, participated in the article redaction, and contributed to this study equally with AB. RT participated in...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 07:21

... of the antibiotic programme [45]. The antibiotic selection was based on monthly reviews of the pathogens isolated from the inten- sive care unit and their antibiotic susceptibility patterns. These ... (ampicillin/sulbactam and piperacillin/tazobactam) because of their enhanced activity against enterococcus. The average monthly use of ceftazidime and vancomycin decreased...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:21

... ‘aggressive’ diagnostic and therapeutic approach, then prevention of AKI, both primary and secondary, remains the key to continued improvement in outcome. Ideally, we would like to be able to prevent progression ... 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...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 08:20

... minimizing intensive care unit- acquired morbidity, in the present issue of Critical Care Moyen, Camire, and Stelfox describe the importance of quality pharmaco- therapy. They describe challenges and ... to patient safety in the intensive care unit (ICU). In the present issue of Critical Care, Moyen, Camire, and Stelfox describe the importance of quality pharmaco...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 10:20

... size, let alone to decisively judge the effectiveness of tight glycaemic control. The honest conclusion from this study is that tight glycaemic control is a demanding and complex intervention, making ... blood glucose control or a combination of the two. The resulting overlap of about 50% between the standard and intensive treatment groups weakened the robustness of the...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:23