Báo cáo y học: "Acute respiratory failure in the elderly" ppsx

... mortality — the risk of death increasing with the number of comorbidities, a low cognitive function and the difficulty in instrumental activity. It is worthy of notice that patients surviving 1 year ... concomitant delay in antimicrobial treatment may contribute to the greater mortality of community-acquired pneumonia in the elderly compared with younger patients [8]. Diseases...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 01:20

... [10,11]. The objectives of this study were therefore to determine the causes of ARF in elderly patients, the accuracy of the initial diagnosis suspected by the emergency physician, the impact of initial ... appropriate. At the time of the study, non-invasive ventilation or continuous positive airway pressure was not performed in the elderly in the ED, but they were p...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:23

... life-sustaining treatments. One study [22] included nosocomial pneumo- nia occurring during the ICU stay among the causes of ARF, and another [30] included mostly postsurgical patients. In our study, ... determined by the dis- cretion of the attending physicians. In all patients, the diagnostic s trategy implemented at thetimeofICUadmissionincluded noninvasive tests (that is, ec...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 07:21

... failure. Competing interests The author(s) declare that they have no competing inter- ests. Authors' contributions PK has been involved in the conception, design, drafting, and revising the manuscript. ... discontinued in a timely manner and life-threatening electrolyte imbalances can be avoided. Hemodialysis will not be necessary in the majority of cases, given the rap...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 23:21

... on, and improve, the clinical clock. Currently, consensus definitions for AKI exist and are being increasingly used in the literature [7,8]. The advent of RIFLE (Risk-Injury- Failure- Loss of renal ... Changes in the incidence and outcome for early acute injury in a cohort of Australian intensive care units. Crit Care 2007, 11:R68. 2. Ympa YP, Sakr Y, Reinhart K, Vincent JL: H...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 08:20

... rate, capillary geometry, and oxygen consumption. The lowest capillary PO 2 , in other words the PO 2 at the end of the capillary, is the critical value for the oxygen diffusion to the cells, and ... impossible to catheterize the IVC via the umbilical vein. There were no catheter-related complica- tions during the time of sampling. Therefore, the study included 22 neo...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:20

... liver involvement. Regarding the symptoms, there is a variety of clinical manifestations caused by the atrial neoplasm and those are mainly tumor-size dependent. Patients may have no symptoms, dyspnea ... as the only manifestation and without apparent primary focus is unique. The chest C T angiography was the most important diagnostic modality in this case. It was very helpful in...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 09:22

... The first author was the major contributor to writing the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript. Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests. ... [2] rather than interrupting specific genes that are important in ovarian development. The most common Robertsonian translocations appar- ently have the same breakpoints and...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 23:21

... ctively highlighted by test- ing in two different biological matrices accounting for different time windows of exposure [10]. In Spain, heroin and cocaine are usually consumed together by smoking, ... and was the main contributor to writing the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript. Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing intere...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 23:21

... were negative. There were no increases in oligoclonal bands, IgG index (0.56 ) and m yelin basic prote in in the CSF. The CSF enzyme immunoassay was negative for IgM antibodies against Epstein-Barr ... occur in ADEM [13]. However, the cerebral lesions in ADEM are typically extensive and asymmetric, although involve- ment of the corpus callosum i s not uncommon [13]. The typi...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 00:23