Báo cáo y học: "Ventilator associated pneumonia: comparison between quantitative and qualitative cultures of tracheal aspirates" ppsx

... the same time, cultures of tracheal aspirates were analyzed qualitatively and quantitatively (10 5 colony-forming units [cfu]/ml and 10 6 cfu/ml) Results Quantitative cultures of tracheal aspirates ... 8 No 6 Research Ventilator associated pneumonia: comparison between quantitative and qualitative cultures of tracheal aspirates Luis Fernando Aranha Camar...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 20:20

... broadspectrum antibiotics, type of surgery, age over 60 years, supine position during the first 24 hours, history of chronic obstructive pulmo- nary disease, NYHA score of 3 or higher and need for mechan- ical ... MHS and has been clearly related to increased morbidity, use of hospital resources and mortality. Our aim was to determine the incidence, aetiology, risk factors and...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 16:20

... airway colonization or shades of grey from VAT to VAP. Diagnoses of both VAT and VAP rely on clinical and systemic signs of infection (fever, leukocytosis, reduced oxygenation) plus purulent sputum ... [1-5]. Understanding VAT may have important implications for the early diagnosis, therapy, and prevention of VAP. In comparison with VAP, VAT is plagued by little clinical data...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:22

... properly cited.Virology Journal 2010, 7:139 Christofferson et al. Virology Journal 2010, 7:139 http://www.virologyj.com/content/7/1/139 Page 6 of 8 Figure 3 Maximum Parsimony Phylogenetic Tree - Phylogenetic ... sent to the Gene Probes and Expression Systems Laboratories of the Division of Biotechnology and Molecular Medicine at the Louisiana State University School of Veterinary...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 04:20

... Greece. 2 Academic Unit of Psychiatry, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK. 3 Department of Psychology, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Athens, Greece. Authors’ ... long-term course of unipolar major depressive disorder. Arch Gen Psychiatry 2000, 57:375-80. 49. Ormel J: Synchrony of change in depression and disa...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:23

... indifferent or antagonistic and synergy is uncommon. Synergy should be demonstrated by testing. Possible synergy is not a reason for combination therapy, which may result in increased side effects/interactions. ... side effects/interactions. Currently, antibiotics for VAP have potent P. aeruginosa activity, and synergy is unnecessary [5,8]. Presently, prevention of resistance is the mos...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:23

... conception and design of the study, for data collection, and for analysis and interpretation of the results. ML was responsible for the conception and design of the study, data collection and interpretation ... humidity, water is removed from mucous and the periciliary fluid by evaporation, causing increased viscosity of mucous and loss of the periciliary fluid layer....

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 02:24

... drugs and who tolerate multiple-drug therapy commonly known as highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART). The early days of HIV disease predating the use of HAART (1996 and before) were associated ... that of viral latency. In this model, there may be a clinically apparent or subclinical primary infection followed by a prolonged and often lifelong period of latency with pos...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:23

... concealment of randomization using sealed envelopes [26,28]. The nat- ure of some of these comparisons precluded blinding of patients and caregivers. Patients were unlikely to be aware of the details of ... [7]. Kine tic bed therapy has been reviewed in a meta-ana- lysis of six trials in seriously and critically ill patients, which indicated a significantly lower rate of p...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:20

... secondary brain injury risks are more likely than CS instability. The objective of clinical decision-making is to minimize secondary brain injury and secondary spinal injury risks. Brain injury severity ... risk and benefit assess- ment should include estimates of the risk for secondary brain injury with each choice and of the probability that CS instability exists. The primary pu...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:22