Báo cáo y học: "Mild therapeutic hypothermia shortens intensive care unit stay of survivors after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest compared to historical control" potx

... 1 of 8 (page number not for citation purposes) Vol 12 No 3 Research Mild therapeutic hypothermia shortens intensive care unit stay of survivors after out -of- hospital cardiac arrest compared to ... intensive care unit (ICU) length of stay and ventilator time in patients after cardiac arrest were found to be either early death dur- ing ICU sta...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:22

... antibiotics in the intensive care unit: feasible, apparently beneficial, but questions remain Jean-Claude Pechère Professor, Department of Genetics and Microbiology, University of Geneva, Switzerland Correspondence: ... http://ccforum.com/content/6/1/009 Raymond et al. from the University of Virginia, USA published work into rotating empirical antibiotics in an intensive care...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:21

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:21

... ultimately, to less down- stream proinflammatory cytokine gene expression. After induction of the heat shock response with TNF-α, human respiratory and alveolar cells had less production of inflammatory ... the mRNA of numerous inflammatory molecules. The effect of this binding is to enhance the expression of these inflammatory mediators [45]. NF-κB, therefore, is a potent ups...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 19:22

... course of the day. There also must be evidence from the history, physical exami- nation, or laboratory findings that this disturbance is caused by the direct physiological consequences of a general medical ... research into delirium in noncritically ill patients for many years, only recently has attention been given to delirium in the ICU [3]. The instru- ments used to assess delirium...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 08:21

... 27.8 Table 7 Mortality according to acute kidney injury stratified by the Risk, Injury, Failure, Loss of Kidney Function, End-stage Kidney Disease (RIFLE) and the Acute Kidney Injury Network (AKIN) ... Loss of Kidney Function, End-stage Kidney Disease (RIFLE) criteria is currently unknown. We evaluated the incidence of acute kidney injury and compared the ability of the maximum...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:22

... from baseline). A total of 797 patients had pre- existing ESRF and 2,782 patients had advanced AKI, of Letter Renal failure in the intensive care unit: acute kidney injury compared to end-stage renal ... severity score matched patients with AKI treated with renal replacement therapy (RRT). We retrospectively analyzed the Riyadh Intensive Care Program database of 41,972 adul...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:23

... Number of units (%) Number of beds 0 to 4 26 (14%) 5 to 8 99 (53%) 9 to 12 36 (19%) >12 24 (13%) Total: 185 units Number of ICU admissions/year a <250 17 (9%) 250 to 500 83 (45%) 500 to 750 ... 43 (23%) 750 to 1,000 22 (12%) >1,000 17 (9%) Total: 182 units % ventilated patients a 0 to 25 7 (4%) 26 to 50 45 (24%) 51 to 75 79 (43%) 76 to 100 49 (26%) Total: 18...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:23

... duration of mechanical ventilation and lengths of stay compared with daily interruption of sedation. In addition, a recent web-based survey was performed on mem- bers of the Society of Critical Care ... 0.033 Length of hospital stay 1.05* 1.03 to 1.08 < 0.001 *Per point of SAPS II, and per day; respectively. Lemeshow goodness -of- fit test, P = 0.86. CI = confidence...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 16:20

... use. Concerns about the use of intravenous ibuprofen in the ICU are further magnifi ed by the lack of any sugges tion of clinical benefi t with such therapy. Although a study by Bernard and colleagues ... response to nephrotoxic drugs, such as aminoglycosides, which are frequently used in critically ill patients, acute kidney insuffi ciency is a common occurrence in the ICU. In the s...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 21:20