Báo cáo y học: "Renal failure in the intensive care unit: acute kidney injury compared to end-stage renal failure" pptx

... stay in ICU (days; median [range]) 7 (1 to 270) 10 (1 to 219) 2 (1 to 64) <0.0001 a Excluding renal failure. AKI, acute kidney injury; ESRF, end-stage renal failure; ICU, intensive care unit; ... in serum creatinine by >300% from baseline). A total of 797 patients had pre- existing ESRF and 2,782 patients had advanced AKI, of Letter Renal failure in the...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:23

... aureus. Available online 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 unit in June 2001 ... January 2002 Critical Care 2002, 6:9-10 © 2002 BioMed Central Ltd (Print ISSN 1364-8535; Online ISSN 1466-609X) Abstract Rotating antibiotics in the intensive care unit...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:21

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:21

... also varied. These ICU delirium screening instruments differ in the components of delirium they evaluate, in their threshold for diagnosing delirium, and in their ability to be used in patients ... change in cognition that develops over a short period of time and fluctuates during the course of the day. There also must be evidence from the history, physical exami- nation,...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 08:21

... sub- stantial involvement in revising and drafting the article, and in interpreting the data. All authors contributed to drafting and revising the article, and approved the final manuscript. Key messages • ... com- monly used agent. Discussion Sedation scoring The majority of responding ICUs (88%) in our survey use a sedation scoring system. This has increased considerably s...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:23

... therapy. Although a study by Bernard and colleagues [2] showed that intra venous ibuprofen was eff ective in diminishing the severity of hyperthermia in patients with acute lung injury, there ... in critically ill patients, acute kidney insuffi ciency is a common occurrence in the ICU. In the study by Morris and colleagues [1], intravenous ibuprofen was adminis- tered...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 21:20

... the research setting, nor were they conceived to meet the unique challenges we face in the ICU. Now, we are asking that the ethical principles be stretched to encompass the uncertainty, the risks, the benefits ... quality of these lives saved. At the crossroads of medical and surgical fields, at the forefront of technology, with its capacity for extensive haemodynamic...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 20:20

... access to senior level intensive care physicians, and conversely it requires the intensivist to have access to the intensive care unit (ICU). The strategic use of information technology (IT) ... easier to appreciate when they are seen directly by the physician rather than being conveyed by a third party. Telepresence is unique in that nurses, patients, and families i...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 22:22

... of increasing severity (Risk of renal dysfunction, Injury to the kidney, and Failure of kidney function) and two outcome classes (LossofkidneyfunctionandEnd-stagekidneydisease) (Table 1). Furthermore, ... Prata MM: Acute kidney injury in intensive care unit patients: a comparison between the RIFLE and the Acute Kidney Injury Network classifications. Crit C...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 08:21

... substantially to the study. JGMH ana- lyzed and interpreted the data and drafted the manuscript. PES conceived of the study, contributed to the interpretation and analysis of the data, and revised the ... admitted to the ICU. Introduction It is difficult for doctors to predict whether a critically ill patient will survive intensive care treatment. Mortality in pa...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 08:20