Báo cáo khoa học: "Equipment review: The success of early goal-directed therapy for septic shock prompts evaluation of current approaches for monitoring the adequacy of resuscitation" potx
... EGDT successful as compared with previous attempts, and to examine other currently available markers of resuscitation. Review Equipment review: The success of early goal-directed therapy for septic ... the manufacturer of the S CVO 2 catheter. Introduction In 2001, Rivers and coworkers [1] reported findings from a landmark investigation of early goal-directed...
Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 22:22
... are the costs of using the technology? • The average number of treatments per therapy course is three to five depending on the aetiology. The costs are on average between 9000€ and 15,000€ for the ... for the therapy. Should there be any special user requirements for the safe and effective use of this technology? • Hospital or non-hospital environment suitable...
Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 20:20
... Knoblich B, Peterson E, Tomlanovich M; Early Goal-Directed Therapy Collabo- rative Group: Early goal-directed therapy in the treatment of severe sepsis and septic shock. N Engl J Med 2001, 345: 1368-1377. 57. ... accept the body of evidence for the accuracy of the lithium dilution technique for the time being, but further validation in a general population...
Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 20:20
Báo cáo khoa học: "Clinical review: The implications of experimental and clinical studies of recruitment maneuvers in acute lung injury" pptx
... studies do not support the use of RMs in patients with ARDS. In conclusion, the use of RMs cannot be recommended in the light of current knowledge, and if RMs are used they should be restricted ... mechanisms of injury in healthy parts of the lung is unknown. In the present review of the literature we describe the intrinsic mechanisms that explain how MV inflicts a...
Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 19:22
Báo cáo khoa học: "Clinical review: The Israeli experience: conventional terrorism and critical care" docx
... placement of each of these patients in the ICU or in a less intensive area such as the PACU. Early knowledge of the type and magnitude of injuries gives an immediate estimate of the number of ICU beds ... signifies the proximity of the casualty to the epicenter of the explosion. The finding of shrapnel injury to one body region should alert the treating...
Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 22:22
Báo cáo khoa học: "Clinical review: The meaning of acid–base abnormalities in the intensive care unit – epidemiolog" ppt
... B, Peterson E, Tomlanovich M; for the Early Goal-Directed Therapy Collaborative Group: Early goal-directed therapy in the treat- ment of severe sepsis and septic shock. N Engl J Med 2001, 345:1368-1377. 71. ... phosphates. The total charge of these must equal the SIDa. The product of all of the measurable anions contributing to the balancing negative cha...
Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 22:22
Báo cáo khoa học: " Equipment review: Cooling catheters to induce therapeutic hypothermia" docx
... temperature of 4-5°C) in the external device (the CoolGard 3000 ® ) and then pumped through the balloons coaxially mounted on the catheter, enabling direct cooling of the blood. The catheter contains ... efficacy; for this technology, efficacy means both achieving the stated goals of the device and improving our patients’ health. The industry may have given us evidenc...
Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 03:20
Báo cáo khoa học: "You Can’t Beat Frequency (Unless You Use Linguistic Knowledge) – A Qualitative Evaluation of Association Measures for Collocation and Term Extraction" pot
... test whether an AM is superior to co-occurrence frequency counting. The purpose of this study is therefore to postu- late a set of criteria for the qualitative testing of differences among the various ... these approaches are limited by the difficulty to port grammatical specifications to other domains (in the case of ATR) or by the error-proneness of full general-lang...
Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 01:20
Báo cáo khoa học: "Pro-Con Debate: Steroid use in ACTH non-responsive septic shock patients with high baseline cortisol levels" potx
... view that the adrenals are exhausted in septic shock. A very small amount of cortisol is stored in the adrenal glands, and the rate of secretion is closely dependent on the rate of biosynthesis ... further randomized clinical trials confirm their therapeutic benefit, one should consider very carefully whether routine administration of steroids for septic shock is appr...
Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:22
báo cáo khoa học: "A Review of Duodenal Metastases from Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Cervix Presenting as an Upper Gastrointestinal Bleed" potx
... fifth decade, with nearly half of the cases being diagnosed before the age of 35 [11]. The decreasing age of occurrence is attributed to the accepted social norms of earlier onset of sexual activity ... SCANS of the Abdomen 1a: CT scan demonstrates the presence of a soft tissue mass (*) impinging on the duodenum. 1b: CT scan demonstrates the presence of an...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 02:21