Báo cáo y học: "Clinical risk conditions for acute lung injury in the intensive care unit and hospital ward: a prospective observational study" potx

... respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is an inflammatory lung injury involving both endothelial and epi- thelial layers of the alveolar-capillary membrane, with subse- quent alveolar flooding and formation ... 10 (page number not for citation purposes) Vol 11 No 5 Research Clinical risk conditions for acute lung injury in the intensive care unit and hospita...

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... becomes clear after taking the medical history and completing the physical examination 85 APACHE = Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation; AUC = area under the receiver operating characteristic ... criteria. Blood samples were taken on the first and second day of hospitalization, and on the day of discharge or on the day of death. For multiple group comparisons...

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... medical, surgical, trauma, oncology and haematology patients. It has an average of 100 admissions per calendar month. For the year from March 2003 to April 2004, the mean Acute Physiology and ... midazolam's pharmacological characteristics appear favourable, with a rapid onset of action and a short plasma elimination half-life. Midazolam is 94–98% bound to plasma albumi...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 20:20

... cited. Abstract Introduction Delayed diagnosis of intraabdominal pathology in the intensive care unit (ICU) increases rates of morbidity and mortality. Intraabdominal pathologies are usually identified through ... diagnose intraabdominal pathology in the intensive care unit Adriano Peris 1 , Stefania Matano 1 , Giuseppe Manca 2 , Giovanni Zagli 1 , Manuela Bonizzoli 1 ,...

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... Switzerland 4 Department of Dynamical Systems and Mathematical Physics, Research Institute for Mathematics and Computing Science, University of Groningen, 9700 AK Groningen, the Netherlands 5 Information ... coronary artery bypass grafting; HGI, hyperglycaemic index; ISS, Injury Severity Score; NICE-SUGAR, The Normoglycaemia in Intensive Care Evaluation - Survival Using Algo...

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... sepsis by at least one quarter by 2009 by means of a six-point action plan, namely, building awareness among health care professionals, improving early and accurate disease recognition and diagnosis, ... diagnosis, increasing the use of appropriate treatments and interventions, education, getting better post -intensive care unit access, and developing standard processes of...

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... catheter insertion and maintenance; adequate training of the nursing staff involved in the management of vascular access and an adequate patient- to-nurse ratio; the use of maximal sterile barrier ... nidus for microbial colonization of intravascular catheters, anticoagulant therapy may have a role in prevention [49]. Moreover, these agents are also indicated in the...

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... and platelet activation may therefore be important in determining clinical outcomes. Commentary Heparin-induced thrombocytopenia during renal replacement therapy in the intensive care unit Andrew ... serotonin release assay to determine whether the antibodies are pathogenic. Most laboratories, as with Lasocki and colleagues [1], therefore rely on commercially available enzym...

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... gastrointestinal hemorrhage. The work by Das and colleagues in the previous issue of Critical Care serves to externally validate the BLEED criteria. Their results suggest that hemodynamically ... reported that as many as 50% of patients with GIH were inappro- priately admitted to intensive care units (ICUs) [7]. A propor- tion of patients, however, may have hemodynamic decom...

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... dehydrating intact brain, contracting healthy brain tissue volume, thereby aggravating pressure differentials, and causing devastating shifts of brain tissue [6,42,44,58,62]. In malignant infarctions, ... De Georgia MA, Abou-Chebl A, Andrefsky JC, Sila CA, Katzan IL, Mayberg MR, Furlan AJ: Cooling for acute ischemic brain damage (COOL-AID): an open pilot study of induced hypothermia...

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