Báo cáo y học: "Bench-to-bedside review: Candida infections in the intensive care unit" ppsx

Báo cáo y học: "Clinical review: Airway hygiene in the intensive care unit" pptx

Báo cáo y học: "Clinical review: Airway hygiene in the intensive care unit" pptx

... it maintains airway patency and prevents pulmonary infection. However, tracheal suctioning induces mucosal injury, exposing the basement membrane and thereby facilitating bacterial adhesion in ... respiratory infections, length of stay in the hospital and the ICU, and mortality in critically ill patients. Available data are distilled into recommendations for the maintenance of...
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Báo cáo y học: "Bench-to-bedside review: Candida infections in the intensive care unit" ppsx

Báo cáo y học: "Bench-to-bedside review: Candida infections in the intensive care unit" ppsx

... (wounds, surgery, and insertion of indwelling intravascular and urinary catheters). The gastrointestinal tract, the skin and the urogenital tract are the main portals of entry for Candida infections. ... [18]. In ICU patients, the most common types of Candida infections are bloodstream infections, catheter-related infec- tions, intra-abdominal infections and urinary trac...
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Báo cáo y học: "Patients'''' recollections of experiences in the intensive care unit may affect their quality of life" doc

Báo cáo y học: "Patients'''' recollections of experiences in the intensive care unit may affect their quality of life" doc

... responses) Do you remember your admission to the hospital? Yes 319 (77) Do you remember your admission to the intensive care unit (ICU)? Yes 230 (55) Regarding what you saw and felt during your ICU stay: I ... aware of their condition until late in their ICU stay and some of them only after their discharge to the ward. However, during their ICU stay they continue to have an emotio...
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Báo cáo y học: "Treatment of euvolemic hyponatremia in the intensive care unit by urea" docx

Báo cáo y học: "Treatment of euvolemic hyponatremia in the intensive care unit by urea" docx

... patients in the intensive care unit. The main criticism to the use of urea orally is its taste; this is not a problem in the intensive care unit as it is usually administered by gastric tube or intravenously. No ... therapy to treat euvolemic hyponatremia in the ICU. Introduction In the intensive care unit, hyponatremia occurs fre- quently and is associated wit...
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Báo cáo y học: "Formulas Saccharomyces boulardii fungaemia in an intensive care unit patient treated with caspofungin" pdf

Báo cáo y học: "Formulas Saccharomyces boulardii fungaemia in an intensive care unit patient treated with caspofungin" pdf

... the central catheter should be considered. Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests. Letter Saccharomyces boulardii fungaemia in an intensive care unit patient ... saccharomyces strain was identified as Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Susceptibility testing indicated the presence of a strain susceptible to caspofungin, treatment with which was initia...
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Báo cáo y học: "Metformin-associated lactic acidosis in an intensive care unit" pptx

Báo cáo y học: "Metformin-associated lactic acidosis in an intensive care unit" pptx

... analyses. Unfortunately, there is no larger study dealing with MALA in the ICU. Second, the cur- rent study was retrospective and therefore we couldn't correct the bias by which only the ... severely ill patients were dia- lysed. Finally, in some situations (e.g. cardiac arrest or shock), the exact role of metformin in explaining the degree of lactic acidosis could not...
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Báo cáo khoa học: "Re-examining ethical obligations in the intensive care unit: HIV disclosure to surrogates" ppt

Báo cáo khoa học: "Re-examining ethical obligations in the intensive care unit: HIV disclosure to surrogates" ppt

... both the physicians’ duty to maintain the patient’s confidentiality, and their duty to the surrogate to provide all necessary information to make an informed decision that served the patient’s interests. By ... forgo therapy, may improve the daughter’s ability to act as an appropriate surrogate in this case. Importantly, failure to disclose the patient’s underlying health condit...
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Báo cáo y học: "Bench-to-bedside review: Understanding the impact of resistance and virulence factors on methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections in the intensive care unit" ppsx

Báo cáo y học: "Bench-to-bedside review: Understanding the impact of resistance and virulence factors on methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections in the intensive care unit" ppsx

... oxacillin, maintained by vancomycin, and inhibited, even at sub-inhibitory concentrations, by protein- synthesis inhibitors, including clindamycin, rifampin, and linezolid [36,37]. As such, it may ... agent include the association of serotonin toxicity and thrombocytopenia [54]. Tigecycline Tigecycline is the first drug approved in the class of glycylcyclines, a derivative of minocycl...
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Báo cáo y học: "Science review: Genetic variability in the systemic inflammatory response" pdf

Báo cáo y học: "Science review: Genetic variability in the systemic inflammatory response" pdf

... depending on the outcome of interest. Interleukin-1 αα and interleukin-1 ββ IL-1, a potent proinflammatory cytokine released by macrophages, also plays a key role in mediating endotoxin lethality ... proinflammatory cytokines, and anti-inflamma- tory cytokines (Table 1). The outcome of an inflammatory response is dictated by a variety of factors, including the pathogenicity and durati...
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Báo cáo y học: "Clinical review: Noninvasive ventilation in the clinical setting – experience from the past 10 year" pps

Báo cáo y học: "Clinical review: Noninvasive ventilation in the clinical setting – experience from the past 10 year" pps

... 8-year retrospective study in which they investigated the changes in clinical practice of NIV in COPD patients. In that survey the failure rate with NIV was constant over time, regardless of the increasing ... breathing trial for 3 consecutive days. In that study NIV was effective in shortening the duration of invasive ventilation, and decreasing the incidence of nosocom...
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