Báo cáo y học: "Anemia, transfusions and hospital outcomes among critically ill patients on prolonged acute mechanical ventilation: a retrospective cohort study" potx

... and cardiac, abdominal and orthopedic surgeries. Table 3 Hospital events and unadjusted outcomes among patients on PAMV by transfusion status Events and outcomes Transfused (n = 2,912) Nontransfused ... Both duration of intensive care unit stay and mechanical ventilation are associated with anemia and increased rates of packed red blood cell (pRBC) transfusion. We hy...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 10:20

... Relationship among the admission, maximal and time weighted blood lactate concentration and mortality. Relationship among the admission blood lactate concentration (Lac ADM ) Panel (a) ; maximal ... maximal and time- weighted blood lactate concentrations and hospital mortal- ity in a large cohort of critically ill patients. Materials and methods The data collection...

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... study was approved by the hospital& apos;s institutional review board and a waiver of con- sent was granted. Statistical analysis Continuous variables are summarized as mean ± standard deviation ... patients (five nontransfused patients and seven transfused patients) . c Fisher's exact test for small samples of categorical variables. APACHE, Acute Physiology and Chronic...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 03:20

... Motor Activity Assessment Scale [29]), and local sedation protocols. Agitation The presence of agitation in an acutely ill patient requiring mechanical ventilation can be a potentially life-threatening problem. ... calculated that a sample size of at least 134 patients was necessary to achieve a 30% absolute difference in agitation/delirium incidence among smokers and non- s...

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... asynchrony. Conclusions A strategy for whole-body rehabilitation consisting of interruption of sedation and physical and occupational therapy in the earliest days of critical illness was safe and ... Bowman A, Barr R, McCallister KE, Hall JB, Kress JP: Early physical and occupational therapy in mechanically ventilated, critically ill patients: a randomised controlled t...

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... statistical analyses. The EMBLEM study is funded by Eli Lilly and Company Limited, Windlesham, Surrey, UK. Study design and data col- lection was coordinated by Lilly. The analysis, interpretation ... sample was lower (mean age 44 years, sd 13) compared to the chron- ically ill inpatient population from the Curacao study (mean age 53 years, sd 17). Van Harten and colleagues demonstrat...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 17:20

... Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE) II obtained at admission and the simplified acute physiology score (SAPS) 2 [16]. Laboratory parameters were routinely assessed at admission, recorded and analyzed. Quantification ... recruited patients were included in the current study. Median duration of stay at the ICU was 8 days (range, 1-137 days), and median duration of stay at the hospital...

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... overweight critically ill patients: invasive or noninvasive? Ali Araghi, Joseph J Bander and Jorge A Guzman Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Wayne State University School ... to underestimate systolic blood pressure and overestimate mean arterial and diastolic blood pressure. NIBP can be inaccurate among overweight critically ill patients and...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:23

... the CCI, and possibly contribute to lengthened ICU stay. APACHE = Acute Physiologic and Chronic Health Evaluation; ARDS = acute respiratory distress syndrome; CCI = chronically critically ill; ICU ... similar severity of illness, organ failures and high rates of ARDS and shock (Table 2). At discharge/death, they also had similar lengths of mechanical ventilation and stay at...

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