Báo cáo y học: "Opioid-induced constipation in intensive care patients: relief in sigh" doc

... [4]. Commentary Opioid-induced constipation in intensive care patients: relief in sight? Daniel Chappell, Markus Rehm and Peter Conzen Clinic of Anaesthesiology, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Nussbaumstrasse ... alterations in pharmacokinetics [8]. Only about 4% of intensive care units currently have guidelines for treating constipation [5]. Various laxative interventio...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:22

... epidemiology of intensive care unit-acquired hyponatraemia and hypernatraemia in medical-surgical intensive care units Henry Thomas Stelfox 1,2,3 , Sofia B Ahmed 3,4 , Farah Khandwala 5 , David Zygun 1,2,6 , ... study data and assume responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the analysis. References 1. Himmelstein DU, Jones AA, Woolhandler S: Hypernatremic de...

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... 2 Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Laboratory of Experimental Intensive Care and Anesthesiology (LEICA), HERMES Critical Care Group, Meibergdreef ... is approximately twice as high as in patients without hypo- thermia [6]. This increased mortality has been attributed to cerebral dysfunction in the setting of the multiple...

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... be discussed. The findings of this study are noteworthy in that they demonstrate more similarities than dissimilarities with findings across the globe. The 10.5% overall prevalence of suicidal symptoms in this ... on varying severity of those specific physical conditions. Further, the severity of the depression and the suicidal symptoms could vary with duration of a given specific conditi...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 23:21

... Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM) gathered 2500 registered partici- pants, mainly physicians, nurses and physiotherapists working in the intensive care unit (ICU). This number was slightly ... particu- larly challenging in most European ICUs. Competing interests None declared. ESICM = European Society of Intensive Care Medicine; ICU = intensive care unit; NO = nit...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:21

... interesting in the insight that it provides into the American experience with confronting the principle of medical futility. In 1991, the American Thoracic Society defined a life-sustaining intervention ... variability in the rationales toward application of the principle of medical futility, and variation in the way in which resource constraints effect the clinicians’ reasoning. I...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 19:22

... of infection. Introduction Nosocomial infections are an increasingly common cause of morbidity and mortality [1], particularly among critically ill patients [2,3]. In intensive care units (ICUs), clinicians are repeatedly faced ... J, Vargas A, Quintero C, Ochoa J, Tandioy F, Zapata L, et al.: The systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) to indentify infected patients in the eme...

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... emerged, improving important endpoints in critically ill patients needing sedation. A major underlying problem in applying EEG monitors in the ICU is that they have been developed for measuring anesthetic depth ... hospital length of stay [7] and reduce complications of critical illness [9]. In a recent study, combining daily awakenings with spon- taneous breathing tests additionally...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:23

... Gunther ML, Morandi A, Ely EW: Pathophysiology of delirium in the intensive care unit. Crit Care Clin 2008, 24:45-65. 4. Fong TG, Tulebaev SR, Inouye SK: Delirium in elderly adults: diagnosis, prevention ... emission tomography demonstrated that fluvoxamine binds to sigma-1 receptors in the living human brain at therapeu- tic doses, suggesting that sigma-1 receptors might be invo...

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