Báo cáo y học: " Population-based epidemiology of intensive care: critical importance of ascertainment of residency status" potx

... cigarette smoking associates with reduced BMI and BF in patients with RA and heavy smoking associates with lower muscle mass. Smoking cessation appears to associate with increased BMI, BF, and waist ... identify potential associations of smoking with body weight and composition of RA patients. Methods A total of 392 patients (290 females)...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:23

... was publicly reported. Together, these features created an ideal opportunity for using the positive deviance approach to identify and dis- seminate innovations to improve quality of care. The ... disseminating the knowl- edge gained to the larger community or industry. Positive deviance approach The positive deviance approach integrates some of the strengths of e...

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... Steady-state mycophenolate mofetil pharmacokinetic parameters enable prediction of systemic lupus erythematosus clinical  ares: an observational cohort study. Arthritis Research & Therapy 2011, ... Ltd Correction: Steady-state mycophenolate mofetil pharmacokinetic parameters enable prediction of systemic lupus erythematosus clinical...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 15:22

... care Review Alarms in the intensive care unit: how can the number of false alarms be reduced? Marie-Christine Chambrin University of Lille, Lille, France Correspondence: Marie-Christine Chambrin, chambrin@lille.inserm.fr Published ... analysis to reduce the number of false- positive alarms. Objectives of the monitoring Alarms are currently genera...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:21

... 2001, 5:304-306. 3. Roccaforte JD: The World Trade Center Attack. Observations from New York’s Bellevue Hospital. Critical Care 2001, 5:307- 309. 4. Chalfin DB: The World Trade Center Attack. Eye witness: observations ... The World Trade Center Attack. Helping the helpers: the role of critical incident stress management. Critical Care 2001, 5:315-317. 7. Simon R, Teperm...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:21

... [3]. What this book adds to these important issues is that it demonstrates considerable variability in the rationales toward application of the principle of medical futility, and variation in the ... survival for that patient’ [4], and reasoned that such therapy could reasonably be withheld without consent from patients or their families. Several years later, the Society for Crit...

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... 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...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 20:20

... variability in intensive care. The commentary discusses why variability can nevertheless accurately estimate prognosis and how easily this can be implemented in the critically ill. Keywords heart ... a marker of sympathetic activity in conditions of Commentary Variability science in intensive care – how relevant is it? P van de Borne Department of Cardiology, Eras...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 20:20

... versus midazolam/fentanyl: a randomised, open-label, pharmacoeconomic trial Bernd Muellejans 1 , Thomas Matthey 1 , Joachim Scholpp 2 and Markus Schill 2 1 Department of Anaesthesiology and ... Richmond Agitation Sedation Scale (RASS) for evaluat- ing sedation, or the Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) or the Behavioural Pain Scale (BPS) for evaluating pain. To date, we would also p...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:23

... Cheng EY: The cost of sedating and paralyzing the critically ill patient. Crit Care Clin 1995, 11:1005-1019. 3. Tonner PH, Weiler N: Sedation and analgesia in the intensive care unit. Curr Opin Anaesthesiol ... or €15.68 per hour of care per patient for physicians and nurses, respectively. As personnel costs vary during ICU stay depend- ing on the intensity of care, the...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:23

... and/ or formulations. Another area of particular clinical interest is whether combination therapy is superior to single-agent therapy. The recent findings of the Dutch Acute Pancreatitis Study ... producing an anti-inflammatory cytokine milieu rich in interleukin-10 [14]. In aggregate, these cellular mechanisms provide intestinal host defense mechanisms and regulate both local and...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:22

... ICU. Commentary Frontal EEG for intensive care unit sedation: treating numbers or patients? Peter V Sackey Department of Anesthesiology, Surgical Services and Intensive Care Medicine, Karolinska University ... sedation regimens may also modify patients memory panorama from the ICU and long- term psychological status [10,11]. It may be tempting to introduce plug-and-play...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:23

... will be at least 18 years old with a primary complaint of thoracic pain (Figure 1: Mannequin defining the area of thoracic pain) and with no contraindications to manual therapy or Graston Technique. Upon ... trial performed assessing the effectiveness of spinal manipulative therapy on thoracic spinal pain [1]. Spinal manipulative therapy (SMT) was compared to...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 14:20

... aberration in diasto- lic cardiomyocyte behavior. The force-frequency relationship (that is, heart-rate-dependent increase in cardiomyocyte short- ening) and frequency-dependent acceleration of relaxation ... which, in turn, diminishes its inhibitory activity on SERCA, promoting cardiac relaxation. In a knockout mouse model lacking phospholamban, SERCA activity is...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 16:20

... this article as: den Hartog et al., Spontaneous hypothermia on inten- sive care unit admission is a predictor of unfavorable neurological outcome in patients after resuscitation: an observational ... original work is properly cited. Research Spontaneous hypothermia on intensive care unit admission is a predictor of unfavorable neuro...

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