Báo cáo y học: "Bench-to-bedside review: Ethical challenges for those in directing roles in critical care units" pps

... resource use for a given health care region, understanding the population needs for intensive care is crucial. This is particularly true if the residents of a community pay for the health care for out-of-region ... illness will always be inextricably linked to the health services research (scientific study of the organization, delivery, and financing of health care) of critica...

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... with pulmonary artery catheter insertion may account, in part, for the lack of routine cardiac output monitoring in every patient. New emerging techniques can provide a measure of cardiac output less invasively ... Medical Systems, Inc., Wallingford, CT, USA) is based on application of the Fick principle to carbon dioxide in order to estimate cardiac output noninvasively, using interm...

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... of Critical Care Medicine Consensus Conference: Definitions for sepsis and organ failure and guidelines for the use of innovative thera- pies in sepsis. Crit Care Med 1992, 20:864-874. 9. Vincent ... C, Bruyn- inckx F, Schetz M, Vlasselaers D, Ferdinande P, Lauwers P, Bouil- lon R: Intensive insulin therapy in critically ill patients. N Engl J Med 2001, 345:1359-1367. 18. Opal S...

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... High-pitched inspiratory wheeze requiring medical intervention Kriner and colleagues [8] 2005 462 20 4.3 Inspiratory grunting, whistling or wheezing requiring medical intervention within 24 hours ... the larynx. In addition, laryngoscopy can cause unnecessary complications in patients with respiratory failure if not performed for the purpose of securing the airway [4,6,7]. Naso-endosc...

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... may block the ligand–RAGE interaction on the cell surface by directly bind- ing leukocyte β2-integrin Mac-1 and thereby decreasing influx of inflammatory cells into the joint cavity, functioning ... colleagues have recently reported that extracellular newly identified RAGE-binding protein (EN- RAGE), a member of the S100/calgranulin family, was strongly expressed in inflamed synovial tissue...

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... disease characterized by hyperplasia of synovial lining cells, consisting of macrophage-like type A synoviocytes and fibroblast-like type B synoviocytes [1]. It has been appreciated that type A synoviocytes, ... stained with phychoeryth- rin-conjugated anti-NFκB p50 monoclonal antibody or phychoerythrin- conjugated normal mouse IgG1, followed by analysis with flow cytome- try. The level of NF...

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... clinical endpoint for the adequacy of resuscitation. While early studies are intriguing, this technology requires much more study before it can be considered for widespread adoption by the clinician. Keywords ... derangements in microcirculatory flow in sepsis, including abnormal leukocyte–endothelial interactions, impaired deformability of red cells, alterations in viscosity and in...

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... differences in the sound quality of the recordings. The sound quality from the video tape was inferior leading to under counting of cough sounds especially in long peels, and occasional difficulty in ... SK: Cough frequency and infectivity in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis. Am Rev Respir Dis 1969, 99:109. 4. Hsu JY, Stone RA, Logan-Sinclair RB, et al.: Coughing frequency in pa...

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... decided for classifying interventions into, say, those that are very cost-effective, those that are cost-inef- fective and those in between. Incremental analysis, which is constrained by the current mix ... range of interventions for leading causes of disease burden, including analysis of the interactions inherent in many combined interventions http://www.who.int/evidence/cea ....

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... for the period January 2006 to February 2010. Monthly camp-level data were aggregated to yearly estimates for analysis and stratified by location in Africa (including Yemen) or Asia. Poisson ... combined. Only those causes accounting for 5% or more of mortality or morbidity are shown, with the remaining causes listed as “Other”. Figure 3. Incidence of malaria in UNHCR refuge...

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