Báo cáo y học: "Clinical review: Major consequences of illicit drug consumption" doc

... a major cause of coronary syndromes and myocardial infarction. Amphetamines may produce similar effects less commonly. Hyperthermia may occur with cocaine toxicity or with 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) ... electrocardiogram; GHB = gamma hydroxybutyrate; GTN = glyceryl trinitrate; MDMA = 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine; MI = myocardial infarction. methylenedioxymethamphetamine...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 08:20

... bioavailability of thiosulfate. Nitroprusside may cause cytotoxicity because of the release of cyanide with interference with cellular respiration [122,123]. Cyanide toxicity has been documented ... of antihyperten- sive therapy, this complication occurred in up to 7% of the hypertensive population [29]. The epidemiology of hyperten- sive crises parallels the distribution of ess...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 19:22

... particularly when priming cardiopulmonary bypass pumps [1]. This is not to deny the merit of avoiding very high or very low pH in fluids intended for rapid administration. Extremes of pH can cause ... single exception is the addition of weak base (e.g. tris-hydroxymethyl aminomethane) [6], which is normally absent from body fluids. Review Clinical review: The meaning of acid–base ab...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 20:20

... Hensley ML, Meropol NJ, Winer EP, American Society of Clinical Oncology Chemotherapy and Radiotherapy Expert Panel: 2002 update of recommendations for the use of chemotherapy and radiotherapy protectants: ... initiation of cytotoxic chemotherapy [10]. Although this syndrome typically occurs in patients with high-grade haematological malignancies, there have been anecdotal reports of...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:23

... tissues, should be of particular interest in anoxic/hypoxic encephalopathy. Severe hypoglycaemia has been likened to hypoxic encepha- lopathy. Imaging study data in patients with hypoglycaemic coma ... value of MRI in the acute phase. J Trauma 2000, 49: 1071-1075. 28. Yanagawa Y, Tsushima Y, Tokumaru A, Un-no Y, Sakamoto T, Okada Y, Nawashiro H, Shima K: A quantitative analysis of h...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 08:20

... ably receive and efficiently provide comprehensive care to victims following a mass casualty event. Unfortunately, the majority of medical major incident plans are insufficiently focused on strategies ... All of the intensive care patients had been triaged directly to the operating theatre to undergo major surgery, including limb amputations, thoracotomy, laparotomy, and craniotomy. A...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 10:20

... planning. Obligations of the medical profession The obligations of the medical profession in a medical emer- gency revolve around the issues of rule of rescue, free choice of profession and the profession’s ... much higher for physicians by virtue of the expert knowledge they possess. This professional expertise may also provide doctors with better self-protection in dealing with...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:22

... cause of Author and of age of of ICU stay Number sleep year published Method patients patients ICU type (days) Main noise sources ventilated disruption? Hilton, 1976 [24] Polysomnography + continuous ... selection of guidelines of behaviour modification: they must be easy to implement and they must not diminish the safety of the patients. Both noise and light are often the prima...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:23

... utility of markers that are already available clinically. A substantial number of biomarker assays are in the devel- opment process, and some of these assays are likely to assume an increasingly ... and leukocyte count  e diagnostic and prognostic accuracy of clinical signs and symptoms and a range of laboratory markers were recently assessed in a planned post hoc analysis of...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 19:20

... contraction, by irregularity of ventricular contraction [43], by inadequate filling time for the left ventricle due to tachycardia, and by tachycardiomyopathy [8,44]. Tachycardiomyopathy can occur ... electro- lyte disturbances, reducing sympaticus tonus and avoiding proarrhythmic drugs. Reduction of the systemic inflammatory state is tempting but is of course always the purpose of IC...

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