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

... patients for airway hygiene. β 2 -Adrenergic agonists increase ciliary beat frequency in experimental models, raising the possibility that they may be useful for airway hygiene [99]. Salbutamol increases ... articles. The following search terms were used: airway hygiene, oral hygiene, mucociliary clearance, tracheal suctioning, bronchoscopy, mucolytics, chest physiotherapy,...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 08:21

... 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...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 20:21

... 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...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:23

... 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...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 21:21

... for the calcium/calmodulin-independent iNOS. The study of Kinugawa et al. clearly suggests that cytokines (or sepsis) can stimulate the heart to sequentially produce NO by both cNOS and iNOS. The ... advances in the under- standing of its pathophysiology [1]. The incidence of severe sepsis in the United States today is estimated at 750,000 cases per year, resulting in 215,...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 19:21

... 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 ... randomized clinical trial. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2003, 168:1438-1444. 17. Lin M, Yang Y, Chiany H, Chang M, Chiany BN, Chitlin MD: Reap- praisal of continuous posit...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 20:20

... resource use. In this article we review the most commonly used scoring systems in each of these three groups. We examine the history of the development of the initial major systems in each group, ... Campos ME, Mendes EM, Mayor ER: Nursing workload in intensive care units: a study using the Therapeutic Intervention Scoring System-28 (TISS-28). Intensive Crit Care...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 20:21

... 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...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 08:21

... 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...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 03:20

... Monitoring Study in Intensive Care) and the ICUSRS (Intensive Care Unit Safety Reporting System) have been developed with the goal of balancing the strengths and limitations of error reporting [72]. Conclusion Patient ... pediatric intensive care unit: a prospective study. Intensive Care Med 1996, 22:1098-1104. 81. Donchin Y, Seagull FJ: The hostile environment of th...

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