Báo cáo y học: "Bedside diagnostic laparoscopy to diagnose intraabdominal pathology in the intensive care unit" pot

... or the inability to safely transfer a patient to the radiology room. In the current study we evaluated the safety and accuracy of bedside diagnostic laparoscopy to confirm the presence of intraabdominal ... original work is properly cited. Abstract Introduction Delayed diagnosis of intraabdominal pathology in the intensive care unit (ICU) increases rates of...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 15:21

... coronary artery bypass grafting; HGI, hyperglycaemic index; ISS, Injury Severity Score; NICE-SUGAR, The Normoglycaemia in Intensive Care Evaluation - Survival Using Algorithm Regulation. resulting ... of these protocols are generally based on previous glucose levels and insulin dosing according to a ‘sliding scale’ protocol (a predetermined amount of insulin is administered accordin...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 18:22

... Medicine, Denizli, Turkey Correspondence: Hülya Sungurtekin, hsungurtekin@yahoo.com Introduction The term ‘sepsis’ is used to define the systemic inflammatory response to an infectious agent (i.e. ... C-reactive protein; ICU = intensive care unit; IL = interleukin; PCT = procalcitonin; SIRS = systemic inflammatory response syndrome; TNF = tumour necrosis factor. Abstract Introduct...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 19:21

... was stopped. In the remaining two patients no other clinical cause of the coma was apparent. The only other agent used routinely in these patients that could have significantly contributed to their ... midazolam ther- apy by continuous infusion either before (e.g. in operating theatres) or during the course of their ICU admission, and who were 'slow to wake' and i...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 20:20

... receive care and die outside the intensive care unit; this observation needs further study. Introduction Conceptually, acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is an inflammatory lung injury involving ... predefined clinical conditions and the development of acute lung injury by using the American–European consensus definition; the frequency of lung injury development outside...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 08:20

... activation may therefore be important in determining clinical outcomes. Commentary Heparin-induced thrombocytopenia during renal replacement therapy in the intensive care unit Andrew Davenport Royal Free ... receive sufficient heparin to achieve the critical ratio to lead to novel epitope exposure. Using an initial priming solution containing 10,000 IU heparin, followed by a...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:22

... outcome evaluation to guide future decision-making on this widely discussed issue. Their findings indicate that, in such a setting, an increase in guideline adherence contributes to the improvement ... colleagues [1] should be interpreted in the context of the limitations of the findings. The authors assumed that the favourable outcome observed was attributable mainly t...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 19:20

... deciding where to place the catheter. When the subclavian route is contraindicated, the choice between the femoral and internal jugular vein should be made according to the body mass index of the ... CVCs is thought to reduce the incidence of catheter infection, presumably by increasing the distance between the venous entry site and skin emergence. Catheter emergen...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 20:21

... URL, BY WHICH IT CAN BE CITED. RESEARCH SUBMITTED TO THE PREPRINT DEPOSITORY MAY BE SIMULTANEOUSLY OR SUBSEQUENTLY SUBMITTED TO GENOME BIOLOGY OR ANY OTHER PUBLICATION FOR PEER REVIEW; THE ONLY REQUIREMENT ... variance analyses were performed by employing the validation experiment (VG) interaction which incorporates: experimenter (PG), array batch (BG), day (AG), and the number...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 14:21

... conditions at any time during the study (Table 3). During the RM, systolic arterial pressure decreased from 106 ± 23 mmHg to 96 ± 34 mmHg. In one patient, the RM was interrupted because the systolic blood ... increases in inspiratory pressure [9,10], reduce anesthesia-induced lung collapse and hypoxemia [11]. During early acute respiratory failure, RMs increase oxygenation and l...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 20:22