Báo cáo khoa học: "Recently published papers: Tracheostomy: why rather than when? Obesity: does it matter? And stroke: diagnosis, thrombosis and prognosis" ppt

... associated with obesity rather than obesity per se are risk factors. They suggest a high BMI may provide a nutritional reserve in times of stress but admit that although BMI is widely used, it does not ... conventional ward. Compared with conventional ward based care, the stroke units were associated with reduced mortality and disability - these benefits persisted across all age ran...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 03:20

... suffered a lower mortality than those who did not. As pointed out in Angus and Crowther’s typically erudite and enlightening accompanying editorial, this data must be treated with caution because heparin ... http://ccforum.com/content/7/5/339 Ups and downs in the fight against sepsis Sepsis is a major cause of critical illness, with a mortality rate in the range of 30–50%. Two landmar...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 20:20

... that Commentary Recently published papers: Asking the unanswerable – measuring the immeasurable and decontaminating the infected Hardeep S Benepal 1 and Lui G Forni 2 1 Renal and Critical Care Registrar, ... observed mortality benefit, rather than intensive insulin therapy. The data also implied that patients whose glucose levels remained predominantly below 10 mmol/l fared bett...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 20:20

... safe, but is it useful? Since 1996, when Connors and colleagues published data suggesting right heart catheterisation in critically ill patients was associated with an increase in mortality [1], ... significant differences in either inhospital mortality, length of stay or cost between patients who had or who had not had a pulmonary artery catheter. In the second, French, study, 676 pati...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 20:20

... choice, and on what basis? Perrin and colleagues surveyed UK clinicians (general and respiratory physicians, and intensivists) to investigate their clinical decision-making and criteria for initiation ... and reduced incidence of nosocomial pneumonia (with shock). Ferrer and colleagues also specifically show reduced intubation rates in those patients with pneumonia and no unde...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 20:20

... the benefit of aggressive fluid and haemodynamic management. Obesity in the intensive care unit It should come as no surprise to intensivists that obesity increases morbidity and mortality in ICUs; ... renal replacement therapy, and deep venous thrombosis and stress ulcer prophylaxis. Commentary Recently published papers: Bugs, fluids, obesity and food Neil Hall 1 and Gare...

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... shock, and secondary end-points included duration of stay in critical care and mechanical ventilation, and survival to hospital discharge and at 60 days. The trial recruited patients with severe ... any influence on or interference with treatment. Potassium dichromate can cause multisystem toxicity and allergic sensitivities if it is administered undiluted, but it was not found...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 22:22

... heterogeneity between the inclusion and exclusion criteria of the studies. The authors acknowledge this limitation. The hospital and 30-day mortality rates were no different between the two groups, and ... more often in nonteaching hospitals than in Commentary Recently published papers: An ancient debate, novel monitors and post ICU outcome in the elderly James Sadler 1 and Ga...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 22:22

... between severity of disease and fatal outcomes from sepsis, and levels of serum lipoproteins [21,22] suggest that measuring total cholesterol and quantifying its high-density and low-density fractions ... Tornberg DC, Lundberg JO, Weitzberg E: Intragastric nitric oxide is abolished in intubated patients and restored by nitrite. Crit Care Med 2005, 33:1722-1727. 26. Rothschild JM, La...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 22:22

... theme, Levy and colleagues from France report an interesting and rather brave study in septic shock [3]. In this prospective study, 110 patients with septic shock as a presumptive initial diagnosis ... groups as well as non-standardisation of volume Commentary Recently published papers: Treating sepsis, measuring troponin and managing the obese Nicholas D Mansfield 1 and Lui G F...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:20