Normal adrenocortical function on initial testing in the intensive care unit: not a long-term warranty pdf

... levels remained unchanged. In addition, these patients required dosages of norepinephrine to be Commentary Normal adrenocortical function on initial testing in the intensive care unit: not a long-term ... those receiving etomidate to facilitate endotracheal intubation. In the paper by Wu and colleagues, of the patients who had initial cortisol levels that...

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... higher standard of disclosure than required for clinical decision-making prevail? Should research participation become part of advance care planning? What happens when the patient regains capacity? Is ... unique demands on researchers. It requires a level of critical thinking, and a knowledge of ethics and the law that must be maintained. Addressing ethical issues in a researc...

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... Larger morbidity and development of complications in diabetes can be explained by the often pre-existing organ dysfunction and pathophysiological alterations in the disease.  is raises the ... the intriguing question of how patients with diabetes manage to survive in the ICU despite an increased risk for a variety of complications such as bloodstream infections [6,8] a...

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... in designing the study. KC was responsible for conceiving the study, data acquisition, analysis of the data, statistical analysis and drafting of the manuscript. BC was responsible for data acquisition, ... allergy notation in the charts of the PB-U. The only allergy error we encountered was in the C-U in a patient whose allergy status was not noted in the ICIS...

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... haemodiafiltration 4 Values are presented as mean ± standard deviation (range) or as number of patients. a Catecholamines: an infusion of dopamine, dobutamine, noradrenaline, or adrenaline. b Insulin: continuous ... not interchangeable. This suggests that approximated IDVG is clinically acceptable as an alternative calculation of IDVG, although approximated and original IDVGs are not eq...

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... are warranted. Competing interests The author(s) declare that they have no competing interests. References 1. Villa P, Jiménez M, Soriano MC, Manzanares J, Casasnovas P: Serum cystatin C as a ... underestimate glomerular filtration rate in renal transplant recipients. Clin Chem 1999, 49:1866-1868. 5. Coll E, Botey A, Alvarez L, Poch E, Quintó LI, Taurina A, Vera M, Piera C, Darnell A...

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... clinicians managing the patient to place a PAC for diagnosis or monitoring as part of standard care. For each patient, 5 ml blood was collected into a tube contain- ing EDTA at the time of PAC ... and cardiac indexRelationship between NT-proBNP, and PCWP and cardiac index. Shown are linear regression analyses examining the relationship between log- transformed amino-terminal pro-b...

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... interests. References 1. De La Rosa GD, Donado JH, Restrepo AH, Quintero AM, Gonzalez LG, Saldarriaga NE, Bedoya MT, Toro JM, Velasquez JB, Valencia JC, Arango CM, Aleman PH, Vasquez EM, Chavarriaga JC, Yepes A, Pulido ... the patients in range. Such a deviation points to protocol violations or a learning curve in the blood glucose control or a combination of the two. The r...

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... which are pending. Adverse effects in all ceftaroline studies to date have been minor, and include headache, nausea, insomnia, and abnormal body odor [62]. Dalbavancin Dalbavancin is an investigational ... Iclaprim also appears to have activity against the atypical respiratory pathogens Legionella and Chlamydia pneumoniae, but is not active against P. aeruginosa or anaerobes [69]. Concl...

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... critically revising the draft. JG made substantial contributions to the data analysis. GB was substantially involved in the analysis, interpretation and drafting the manuscript. Acknowledgements To the Medical ... were defined as 'minor' in outcome and, as such, did not cause the patient harm but, in some cases, may have lead to an increase in monitoring but wi...

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