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... three year period was analysed and corrected for age, gender and illness severity. The odds of death increased 7.4 times in morbidly obese patients requiring intensive care for 4 days or more. Physiological ... CHX/ COL reduced and delayed the development of VAP. Daily risk of acquiring VAP decreased: 65% and 55% for CHX and CHX/COL, compared with the placebo group, respectively. Ag...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 01:20

... to accelerate recovery of gastrointestinal motility may be effective salt and water balance. In a study by Lobo and colleagues [4], prompted by Commentary Recently published papers: We are what ... recent study reported by Yap and coworkers [7]. They retrospectively studied more than 1000 patients over an 18-month period, their hypothesis being that serum hypoalbuminaemia may be pre...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:21

... insulin therapy may not, as suggested previously, be universally applicable and is not without risk. This latter point was addressed by Vriesendorp and co- workers [7]. Since employing more intensive ... have noticed an increase in hypoglycaemic events, similar to those reported by van den Berghe and colleagues. They therefore set out to identify the factors that may make this such a co...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:23

... majority of delayed transfers, which may be explained by other factors independent of ‘boarding’. The Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation II data were limited to about 60% of patients and ... stay was also longer in terms of both ICU bed days and hospital bed days. These results are in keeping with several other studies [2,3]. When stratified by disease severity using the...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 08:20

... may be accounted for by protective nonhaemopoietic effects of EPO. A recent meta analysis by Zarychanski et al. showed that EPO had no statistical impact on overall mortality, length of stay ... septic model. Landry et al. [6] have previously shown that NADR levels increase whilst AVP levels decrease in septic shock, which may explain why AVP replacement may improve haemo- dynamic status. ......

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 10:20

... impact Commentary Recently published papers: Pseudomonas , brain and bowel injury and novel cardiac therapies Uma M Bandarupalli and Gareth Williams University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, Infirmary Square, ... and on day 8 after initiation of antibiotic therapy. Analysis for type III cytotoxins was undertaken and results indicated that about 50% of the patients had persis...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:22

... out-of- hospital cardiac arrest with induced hypothermia. N Engl J Med 2002, 346:557-563. 13. The Hypothermia After Cardiac Arrest Study Group: Mild thera- peutic hypothermia to inprove outcome after cardiac ... good physiotherapy [10]. Also, bronchoscopy is associated with potentially harmful physiological side effects such as hypoxaemia, elevated airway pressures and raised intracranial p...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 20:20

... Pseudomonas Commentary Recently published papers: pneumonia, hypothermia and the elderly Christopher Bouch and Gareth Williams University Hospitals of Leicester, Leicester Royal Infirmary, Leicester LE1 5WW, UK Corresponding ... microbiological cultures and sensivities. Major pathogens were identified in 49% of patients, most commonly methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (14....

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 03:20

... on the effects of methylprednisolone in unresolving acute respiratory distress syndrome [10], and may account for a therapeutic modality by which high-dose steroid therapy works. It is difficult ... Jr, Landry DW, Townsend RN: Low-dose vasopressin in the treatment of vasodilatory septic shock. J Trauma 1999, 47:699-703. 6. Tsuneyoshi I, Yamada H, Kakihana Y, Nakamura M, Nakano Y, Boyle W...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:21

... reported by Weber and colleagues [22]. Sadly, adoption of this technique, in the UK at least, awaits the deliberation of the government and judiciary. Finally, if you have been seduced by the attractive ... 2002, 166:1-2. 3. Brealey D, Brand M, Hargreaves I, Heales S, Land J, Smolenski R, Davies NA, Cooper CE, Singer M: Association between mito- chondrial dysfunction and severity and...

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