Báo cáo khoa học: "Early percutaneous dilatational tracheostomy leads to improved outcomes in critically ill medical patients as compared to delayed tracheostomy" doc

... percutaneous dilatational tracheostomy leads to improved outcomes in critically ill medical patients as compared to delayed tracheostomy John C. Lee 1 and Mitchell P. Fink 2 1 Clinical Fellow, Department ... translaryngeal intubation. It gives credence to the practice of subjecting this group of critically ill medical patients to early trac...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 22:22

... disorders in critically ill cancer patients. Introduction Major discrepancy rates between premortem clinical diag- noses and postmortem autopsy findings continue to be reported in critically ill patients ... purposes) present in seven patients, followed by central nervous system infections (two patients) , gastrointestinal infections (two patients) , and widely dissemin...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 03:21

... underlying risk factors for invasive aspergillosis in patients in whom Aspergillus spp. were isolated from respiratory secretions. On the other hand, invasive aspergillosis does not only occur in ... in multivariate analysis. In 14 patients isolation of Aspergillus spp. was interpreted as colonization, in 20 it was interpreted as invasive aspergillosis, and two cases were...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 22:21

... was defined as a pre-existing serum creatinine ≥150 µmol/l for at least six months prior to ICU admission. Oliguria was defined as the production of <500 ml of urine in the 24 h preceding assessment. ... severe enough, in the opinion of the treating intensivist, to warrant the initiation of RRT. This definition was selected because the ini- tiation of RRT in critically ill...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:20

... in most studies. Methods of insulin administration Insulin was administered in different ways: subcutaneously, continuous intravenous infusion combined with intravenous bolus injections, or insulin ... followed by intravenous insulin if needed, resulted in glycaemic control in only two- thirds of ICU patients. Continuous insulin infusion Most study protocols used continuous intraven...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:21

... M, Fraser R, Kluger M, Buist M, De Nichilo D: Erythro- mycin improves gastric emptying in critically ill patients intol- erant of nasogastric feeding. Crit Care Med 2000, 28:2334-2337. 25. Castella ... activity and due to release of systemic inflammatory cytokines [2-6,28,29]. In patients with a head injury, raised intra-cranial pressure is thought to be the main mediator of i...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 03:20

... (GTV) was defined as the gross extent of tumour shown by imaging, including all involved (positive) lymph nodes. MRI, and in few cases FDG-PET, were used in the delineation of GTV. On the basis ... investigation of K. Otto (10), RapidArc (r) was recently introduced in clinical practice in several institutes after an intensive validation at planning level where it was compared to...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 09:20

... in critically ill patients in the Netherlands: a postal survey. Chest 2005 in press. 14. Strain DS, Kinasewitz GT, Vereen LE, George RB: Value of rou- tine daily chest x-rays in the medical intensive ... policy to obtain CXRs after insertion of endotra- cheal tubes, intravenous lines and chest drains, but not after insertion of nasogastric tubes. In addition, CXRs were obt...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:39

... 15PC3 RNase H2 mRNA. The increase in RNase H2 RNA in the transfectants resulted in increased enzymatic activity in the in vitro RNase H assay. This demonstrates that the overexpressed R Nase H2 ... detected only in in-gel assays, the class II activity of RNH(35) only in liquid a ssays, whereas the class II activity of RNH(70) was detected in neither assay. In order to dete...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 10:20

... regression line to each of the series and an index series was obtained. In a second step, a cubic spline (66 years stiffness) was fit to these index series. Remaining auto- correlation ... occurred in the southern-slope chronology. The trees started to recover as recently as the late 1980s. From 1974 on, an increasing number of missing...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 19:21