Báo cáo y học: " Bench-to-bedside review: Angiopoietin signalling in critical illness – a future target" pps

... reporting barriers partly owing to fewer liability concerns, and an opportunity to study recovery patterns [75]. Ideally, error reporting should be voluntary, anonymous, centralized to increase ... Herout PM, Erstad BL: Medication errors involving continu- ously infused medications in a surgical intensive care unit. Crit Care Med 2004, 32:428-432. 80. Stambouly JJ, McLaughlin LL, Mandel...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:35

... Research, Sydney, Australia, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Email: Simone E Langford* - simone.langford@med.monash.edu.au; Jintanat Ananworanich - jintanat .a@ searchthailand.org; David ... found in East Africa and Subtype CRF_01 AE is seen mainly in Thailand. Cau- casians are predominantly infected by subtype B, seen in 12% of the global HIV infected population...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 05:20

... manifestations in APLS include valvular di sease, coronary artery disease, intracardiac thrombus f orma- tion, pulmonary hypertension and dilated cardiomyopa- thy [5,8]. Cardiac valvular pathology includes ... 346:752-63. 30. Nakayama M, Kumon K, Yahagi N, et al: Antiphospholipid antibody syndrome in a case with redo coronary artery bypass grafting under cardiopulmonary bypass. Surg Tod...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 09:22

... bonnie.kaplan@albertahealthservices.ca 6 Department of Pediatrics and Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada Full list of author information is available ... Systematic review of safety and tolerability of a complex micronutrient formula used in mental health. BMC Psychiatry 2011 11:62. Submit your next manu...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 15:22

... of highly cont- aminated material. Hand washing is an important yet underused measure to prevent nosocomial infections. Review Clinical review: Non-antibiotic strategies for preventing ventilator-associated ... 9.2 days of additional hospital stay [11], and Fagon et al. calculated the median length of stay in the ICU for the patients that developed VAP to be 21 days, versus a me...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:21

... depression in sepsis and septic shock Myocardial hypoperfusion The possibility of myocardial dysfunction in sepsis was origi- nally proposed and described in the 1960s. Its etiology, however, remained ... in septic myocardial depression. Cellular mechanisms of septic myocardial depression Depression of myocardial contractility by TNF-α, IL-1β and septi...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 19:21

... depending on the outcome of interest. Interleukin-1 αα and interleukin-1 ββ IL-1, a potent proinflammatory cytokine released by macrophages, also plays a key role in mediating endotoxin lethality ... proinflammatory cytokines, and anti-inflamma- tory cytokines (Table 1). The outcome of an inflammatory response is dictated by a variety of factors, including the pathogenicity and dura...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 19:22

... dysfunction in congestive heart failure of different origins. Increased plasma levels of circulating natriuretic peptides, atrial natriuretic peptide, N-terminal pro-atrial natriuretic peptide, brain natriuretic ... most severe clinical scenario evolves in multiple organ failure and death [1]. Sepsis is defined by the presence of an infective agent in combination with typical c...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 20:20

... pressure ventilation (NPPV) to standard care in patients with acute exacerbations Review Clinical review: Noninvasive ventilation in the clinical setting – experience from the past 10 years Massimo ... suffering from COPD exacerbations to standard medical therapy alone or medical therapy combined with NIV. Intubation and mortality rates in the NIV group...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 20:20

... disappointing. To evaluate this problem fully, we must study different patient populations, using similar methodology to that used in the study by van de Leur and colleagues, but including an objective ... a structured interview within 3 days of ICU discharge. Although this might be viewed as a weakness, it might in fact be a strength because such patients, when interviewed during...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 20:20

... while maintaining infection control measures), and serve as a way to train treatment teams at different hospital sites. Indeed, internet-based technology proved invaluable during the SARS outbreak in ... placed in quarantine after exposure, some of them falling ill, becoming critically ill and even succumbing to SARS. Staff morale was addressed in some institutions by encouraging an...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 20:21

... reliability Advantages Disadvantages Clinical application Polysomnography Gold standard Monitors sleep quantity and Sleep technician needed continually during monitoring and Not practical for routine clinical ... hallucinations, psychosis and REM sleep in Guillain- Barre syndrome. Brain 2005, 128:2535-2545. 32. Hardin KA, Seyal M, Stewart T, Bonekat HW: Sleep in critical...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 08:20

... patients for airway hygiene. β 2 -Adrenergic agonists increase ciliary beat frequency in experimental models, raising the possibility that they may be useful for airway hygiene [99]. Salbutamol increases ... articles. The following search terms were used: airway hygiene, oral hygiene, mucociliary clearance, tracheal suctioning, bronchoscopy, mucolytics, chest physiotherapy,...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 08:21

... leading to diminished paracellular permeability [65]. Summary In the mature vessel, Ang-1 acts as a paracrine signal to maintain a quiescent status quo, whereas Ang-2 induces or facilitates an ... WPBs in an autocrine and paracrine fashion upon stimulation by various inflammatory agents. Ang-2 acts as an antagonist of Ang-1, stops Tie2 signalling, and sensitizes endothelium to inflam...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:23

... resource use. In this article we review the most commonly used scoring systems in each of these three groups. We examine the history of the development of the initial major systems in each group, ... patients with a very short length of ICU stay, and so on). Second, the accuracy of any scoring system is highly dependent on the quality of the input. To be used...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 20:21