Báo cáo y học: "Pharmacotherapeutic friendly fire in the intensive care unit: high stakes seeking high calibre" doc

... accountability is mediated through the administrators contributing to the implicated system-level errors. Commentary Pharmacotherapeutic friendly fire in the intensive care unit: high stakes seeking high ... process. They discuss vulnerability, error definition and measurement, and methods to improve the process and outcomes of pharmacotherapy in the ICU. The...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 10:20

... abstracts of nosocomial infection in intensive care units in Europe: results of the European Prevalence of Infection in Intensive Care (EPIC) Study; EPIC International Advisory Committee. JAMA 1995, ... resistance is similarly lacking [38]. Nevertheless, there is some indirect evidence that the use of combination antimicrobial therapy may be useful. In the County of Nort...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:21

... Changes in the incidence and outcome for early acute injury in a cohort of Australian intensive care units. Crit Care 2007, 11:R68. 2. Ympa YP, Sakr Y, Reinhart K, Vincent JL: Has mortality from acute ... rely on, and improve, the clinical clock. Currently, consensus definitions for AKI exist and are being increasingly used in the literature [7,8]. The advent of RIFLE (Ri...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 08:20

... further aggravating the problem of power, the study turned out to realize intensive insulin therapy, but without tight glycaemic control. The median morning blood glucose level in the intensive treatment ... Bouillon R: Intensive insulin therapy in the medical ICU. N Engl J Med 2006, 354:449-461. 4. Krinsley JS: Effect of an intensive glucose management proto- col on th...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:23

... computing technology is highlighted. In critical care, as in other areas of health care, clinicians are faced with rising health care costs and aging and increasingly complex patients. Furthermore, ... by Morrison and colleagues [1] provides an important insight into another potential problem introduced by computing tech- nology in the ICU. These investigators evaluated the effe...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:23

... year. The ‘dose of experience’ with RRT in the ICU might be a greater determining factor of outcome in critically ill acute kidney injury patients than the dose of dialysis. Finally, despite the ... in the study by Vesconi and colleagues. Interestingly, there was also no difference in obtained net ultrafiltration between low and intensive dose groups in the VA/NIH tria...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 16:20

... reported in the previous issue of Critical Care, Vincent and colleagues [1] investigated the possible increased risk of patients with insulin-treated diabetes for morbidity and mortality in the intensive ... morbidity and development of complications in diabetes can be explained by the often pre-existing organ dysfunction and pathophysiological alterations in the di...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 20:21

... Hyperglycemia in Pediatric Intensive Care) trial in the UK, will provide further knowledge about this intriguing topic. In conclusion, as shown by Preissig and Rigby, a majority of ICU physicians ... increases the workload and responsibility for bedside nurses. Frequent blood testing, interpretation of the blood glucose results, and fi nally adapting the insulin infusion...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 20:22

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