Báo cáo y học: " Extending international sepsis epidemiology: the impact of organ dysfunction" pps

... greater organ dysfunction [2,10]. The evolution of organ dysfunction throughout the septic process provides us with critical Commentary Extending international sepsis epidemiology: the impact of organ ... mortality both in the ICU and at hospital discharge. Their study gives us insight into the impact of severe sepsis on organ dysfunction and mortality, a...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:23

... diagnose sepsis. Tachycardia was only cited by 29%, leukocytosis or leukopenia by 20%, hypother- mia by 14%, and tachypnoea by 9% of physicians. Ability to diagnose sepsis and communicate about sepsis Four ... definitions of sepsis In general, physicians' definitions of sepsis were fragmented. When defining sepsis, only 22% (114 of 529) of the intensiv- ists and 5%...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 20:20

... EBPs). Additionally, several of the study's primary hypotheses involve objectively measured criterion such as type of agency (i.e., public or private agency) which should exhibit minimal potential for systematic ... previous research by examining the association of organization type with level of organizational support for EBP. Third, the present study explores whether the...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:21

... on the height and time of epidemic peak. The applica bility of our theoretical arguments is not restricted to the switch of con- trol policy. In many Northern hemisphere countries, the start of ... distribu- tion of the generation time [25]. Sensitivity analysis In addit ion to the analysis of empirical data, we a lso examine sensitivity of the height and time of...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 16:20

... at the 31st Annual Congress of the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM), San Diego, California, USA, 26–30 January 2002, and may not necessarily reflect the actual opinion of the author. The ... acute respiratory distress syndrome. Older studies used large doses for short periods of time, and were given early in the treatment – typically one or two doses of methylpre...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:21

... flexibility so the therapy may be tuned to patient body size and severity of illness. This process begins with recognition of key features of the inflammatory response. The network of IM, acting ... as a therapy for sepsis based on its ability to remove circulating IM by sieving or by adsorption, or both. Designing devices and methods for sepsis therapy will require optimiza...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 19:21

... consolidation depend on the integrity of the amygdala noradrenergic system [30] as do the enhancing effects of NAL [31]. The effects of the noradrenergic system on memory formation seemed to be ... one-trial inhibitory avoid- ance, and various forms of fear conditioning, all of which closely mimic human situations of daily life. The inhibitory avoidance task relies hea...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:23

... these guidelines are the early diagnosis of infection as a cause for the patient’s systemic inflammatory response and the timely administration of appropriate antimicrobial chemotherapy. The consensus ... cover in the face of as-yet-unidentified infection because delaying antibiotic therapy in sepsis has been shown to increase mortality and morbidity [6,7]. Unfortunately, t...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 16:20

... pulmonary sepsis, suggesting that the eff ects of hypercapnic acidosis depend not only on the stage of the infective process, but also on the site of the primary infection. Early systemic sepsis Hypercapnic ... regarding the safety of hypercapnia in the setting of prolonged pneumonia, particularly in the absence of eff ective antibiotic therapy. Figure 2. Pot...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 07:21

... from the radiofrequency procedure, the length of im- provement varied from 3 months to 16 months. Again, no one in the radiofrequency group developed permanent relief of their pain. Thus, the ... being 5 months. The range of relief for the radiofrequency group was from zero days to 16 months for all 26 patients who underwent the radiofrequency procedure. Of the 14...

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