Báo cáo y học: "Conceptual issues specifically related to health-related quality of life in critically ill patients" pps

... functional ability may sometimes be the only way to determine baseline HRQOL. Response shift in critically ill patients Patients become accustomed to their illness. An important mechanism in this adaptive ... presence of these symptoms correlated with younger age and longer time on the ventilator. The authors highlighted a way to identify patients with symptoms of PTSD and r...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:23

... 137,000 Died in ICU a Viremia peak is expressed in copies/ml. DBSA, deep burn surface area; TBSA, total burn surface area. Figure 1. Cytomegalovirus plasma load measurements during ICU stay of four ... characteristics Patient Age (years) TBSA (%) DBSA (%) IGS 2 score ICU stay (days) Viremia peak a Outcome 1 80 15 0 41 30 9,130 Discharged from ICU 2 76 40 40 38 141 63,400 Died in ICU...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 07:21

... group on admission to the intensive care unit in patients with and without a history of insulin-treated diabetes. No history of insulin-treated diabetes (n = 2921) History of insulin-treated diabetes (n ... mortality in critically ill patients. JAMA 2003, 290:2041-2047. 33. Krinsley JS: Effect of an intensive glucose management protocol on the mortality of critically il...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 20:21

... FB, for the Caspofungin Salvage Aspergillosis Study Group: Efficacy and safety of caspofungin for treatment of invasive aspergillosis in patients refractory to or intolerant of conventional antifungal ... W, Colardyn F, Vogelaers D: Clinical relevance of Aspergillus iso- lation from respiratory tract samples in critically ill patients. Critical Care 2006, 10:R31. 2. Denning...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:22

... predictor for the severity of adverse effects. Although every patient with symptoms has some degree of injury, not all injuries present clinically [2,17]. Laryngeal edema therefore remains largely ... adminis- tration of steroids and nebulization of epinephrine. Cortico- steroids downregulate the inflammatory response by inhibit- ing the recruitment and action of inflammatory cells...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 19:20

... administra- tion of colistin is noted in approximately 15% of patients. Colistin’s clinical efficacy in critically ill patients In a recently published study, 258 adult critically ill patients (mean age 61 years) ... 10-22 days. Cure of infection occurred in 79.1% of patients. An interesting finding of this study was that nephrotoxicity occurred in only 10% of pa...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 01:20

... of electrical ventricular activity. Prolongation of this interval is consid- ered a marker of the arrhythmogenic potential of a drug specifically linked to an increased risk of torsade de pointes ... the average duration of recovery in our ward is 8,5 days. Dosing was clinically determined for symptom response by the treating psychi- atrist and hence, doses varied within and...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 21:20

... with migration or indirectly by decreasing the genera- tion of inflammatory cytokines and chemokines, thereby decreasing the signal that triggers leukocytes to infiltrate into the injured tissue. Methods Male ... function in the liver by decreasing macrophage secretion of inflammatory cytokines and toxic oxygen rad- icals [7] and by inhibiting neutrophil infiltration [8]. The role GdC...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 08:22

... past 4 years, recurring after episodes of acute tonsillitis. Although oral and topical corticosteroids, oral antibiotics and emollients were used in his therapy, only tonsillectomy finally proved ... nodularis (PN) of Hyde. This is an unusual disorder of unknown aetiology characterized by extremely pruritic nodules and with well-defined clinical symptoms and histopathologi- cal findin...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 21:22

... Employment) Challenged integrity/feeling believed • May be seen as a malingerer • Wrongly considered as lazy by others Self worth degraded by how you feel others see you • Always trying ... measures only capture part of the burden of low back pain. At the other end of the spectrum, Deyo et al. proposed a core set of six indicators for routine clinical use that included...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:20