Báo cáo y học: "Bench-to-bedside review: Hyperinsulinaemia/euglycaemia therapy in the management of overdose of calcium-channel blockers" ppt

... proinflammatory cytokines, and anti-inflamma- tory cytokines (Table 1). The outcome of an inflammatory response is dictated by a variety of factors, including the pathogenicity and duration of the stimulus, ... depending on the outcome of interest. Interleukin-1 αα and interleukin-1 ββ IL-1, a potent proinflammatory cytokine released by macrophages, also plays a key role in...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 19:22

... 8-year retrospective study in which they investigated the changes in clinical practice of NIV in COPD patients. In that survey the failure rate with NIV was constant over time, regardless of the increasing ... COPD exacerbations to standard medical therapy alone or medical therapy combined with NIV. Intubation and mortality rates in the NIV group were lower than in...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 20:20

... workloads and pressures in their tireless fight, in a rapidly changing environment, against a deadly mysterious disease. The strength of Ontario’s response lay in the work of the people who stepped ... situation may arise quickly and without much warning, taxing the resources of any health care system and the ability of its personnel to cope. The most fundamental gui...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 20:21

... rate of nosocomial pneumonia, and may reduce the length of stay in the ICU and the hospital. The high cost of kinetic beds may be offset by a shortening of stay and a decreased use of systemic ... articles. The following search terms were used: airway hygiene, oral hygiene, mucociliary clearance, tracheal suctioning, bronchoscopy, mucolytics, chest physiotherapy, kinetic...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 08:21

... developing world Of the nearly 6 billion people in the world today, roughly 1 billion live in extreme poverty. They are nearly all inhabitants of ‘developing’ countries, predominantly in sub-Saharan ... without the help of others. Over the last 200 years, the economies of Africa have grown by approximately 0.7% per year, while the US has grown by 1.7% per year, resul...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:22

... increasingly the objective of modern ventricular assist device therapy is to obtain a level of functionality that results in an acceptable quality of life for the patient. Hence, weaning from the ... third-generation rotary pumps the spinning rotor fl oats by means of either a magnetic fi eld or hydrodynamic levitation, never touch- ing the pump housing, thereby elim...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 19:20

... with a very short length of ICU stay, and so on). Second, the accuracy of any scoring system is highly dependent on the quality of the input. To be used correctly, the defi nitions, time of data ... resource use. In this article we review the most commonly used scoring systems in each of these three groups. We examine the history of the development of the...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 20:21

... [4,5]. The findings of psammoma bodies in our patient further strengthened the diagnosis. Four microscopic patterns of meningiomas are recognized: (1) the syncytial ty pe, con- sisting of a uniform ... tumors of the CNS that arise from the arachnoid cells of the meninges. Rarely, th ese meningio- mas appear in extra-cranial and extra-spinal areas, wheretheyareknownas...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 23:21

... cases into one case series because the surgical management of the eyelid injuries was the same, although the systemic managements of thes e patien ts as different according to the injury area ... copy of the written consent is available for review by the Editor -in- Chief of this journal. Acknowledgements We sincerely appreciate the superb assistance of Cheltus Che...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 23:22

... divisions wit hin the substance of the trapezious muscle. The artery was identified by using Doppler ultrasound(Figure2).Thelocationsofthenerveand thearteryweremarkedbilaterallyontheskinwitha sterile ... 5:174 http://www.jmedicalcasereports.com/content/5/1/174 Page 5 of 6 Schwann cells, endothelial cells, fibroblasts, and a large number of infiltrating inflammatory mast cells [8,9...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 00:23