Báo cáo y học: "Arterial blood pressure monitoring in overweight critically ill patients: invasive or noninvasive" pdf

... a new continuous blood pressure monitoring system in crit- ically ill patients. J Clin Anesth 2000, 12:509-518. 16. Pickering TG: What will replace the mercury sphygmomanom- eter? Blood Press ... both noninvasive monitoring methods. This observation has been reported for the ausculta- tory technique [7,8] and appears to be explained not by an ina- bility to record the first audi...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:23

... abstinence in the ICU setting, except for one study, which identified smoking history as a risk factor for delirium in critically ill patients [8]. More- over, nicotine-replacement therapy (NRT) remains ... dependency by using the FTND in ICU settings. Identifying patients at risk of behavioral disorders may lead to earlier interventions in routine clinical practice. Introduction...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 20:21

... published reports in subarachnoid hemorrhage and traumatic brain injury that link more severe anaemia with worse outcomes. Anaemia and transfusion in critical illness  e traditional goal for packed ... improved markers of brain tissue function on positron emission tomography [4]. In patients with traumatic brain injury, brain oxygen monitors may show low brain oxygen tension that...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 20:21

... stored for ≤ 10 days or ≥ 21 days. The primary endpoint of this study is the change in the Multiple Organ Dysfunc- tion Score (MODS) from baseline to day 7, with second- ary outcomes including all-cause ... perfusion. Therefore, in critically ill patients, especially those with heart failure or coronary artery disease (CAD), the myocardium may not tolerate such low hemoglobin leve...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 23:20

... therapy, clinically significant bleeding occurred in 17% of patients, and was sig- nificantly more frequent in non-survivors. It has been associ- ated with increases in mortality and in ICU stay ... gone unrecognized. Psychomotor agitation occurred in only 16% of patients, but this figure may not include minor alterations. The relatively young age of our cohort might explain the rel...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:24

... hemoglobin, hospital-acquired pneumonia, blood stream infection, gastrointestinal endoscopy, abdominal surgery, cardiac surgery (on and off bypass), and orthopedic surgery. Mortality outcomes ... end-points of hospital discharge or death. Second, having been performed in a single health care system, the underlying population characteristics may limit the gener- alizability of our find...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 10:20

... interventions and nursing workload scores are also being incorporated into clinical trial design, particularly for interventions likely to impact on nursing workload. Assessment of ICU performance Costs ... creating a simpler system that would be more widely used [52]. Nursing activities are separated into nine categories: basic monitoring, intravenous medication, mechanical ventilato...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 20:21

... sonography or angiography was generally used to support the diagnosis but was not mandatory. Other therapeutic interventions recorded included the need for aneurysm clipping or coiling, the use ... 5% albumin solution. Vasopressors were given to patients after surgery to maintain systolic blood pressure in the high normal range (140 to 160 mmHg). Clinical deterioration from delayed...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 07:21

... function in a general adult population. Background Hypertension is an increasingly important public health challenge worldwide and it is one of the major causes for morbidity and mortality [1]. ... Valind S, Hedblad B, Janzon L: Blood pressure increase between 55 and 68 years of age is inversely related to lung function: longitudinal results from the cohort study ‘Men born in 1914’. J...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:45

... contains informati on about treatment including how to avoid toxicity, and a bioche mical monitoring record [33,34]. The deadline for getting information to patients and having these moni- toring ... slightly superior monitoring of body weight for patients with a diagnosis of a schizophrenia spectrum disorder, which may indicate increased clinician awareness of risk factors for weight gai...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:22