Báo cáo y học: "Pro/con debate: Do the benefits of regionalized critical care delivery outweigh the risks of interfacility patient transport" pot

... regionalized critical care delivery outweigh the risks of interfacility patient transport? Jeffrey M Singh 1,2 and Russell D MacDonald 2,3 1 Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care and Department of ... that regionalization of critical care delivery in noncentralized jurisdictions may realize these benefits. Regionalization may reduce costs Regionaliz...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 16:20

... be adequately reported to facilitate scrutiny of the results. Unfortunately in critical care medicine this is frequently not the case. A systematic review of 139 meta-analyses relevant to critical care ... splitting a meta-analysis into subgroups is considered by many to be hypothesis generating at best. Nonetheless, the hypotheses may be stronger if the subgroups are base...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:22

... pressure of arterial oxygen/inspired fraction of oxygen; SOFA: Sequential Organ Failure Assessment. Acknowledgements The study was financially supported by the Department of Critical Care, Guy’s & ... RP: The natural history of the systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS). A prospective study. JAMA 1995, 273:117-123. 3. Brun-Buisson C: The epidemiology of th...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 07:21

... trend in the fre- quency of incidents in relation to the year of purchase of the device. Results EMI by GPRS or UMTS signals on critical care medical equip- ment was demonstrated in 26 of the 61 ... as specified, including the year of purchase, and conse- quently are a limitation of the present study. Another limitation of this study is the test conditions. Th...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:35

... oselta- mivir. The mean time from the onset of illness to the initiation of antiviral therapy was 7.4±4.17 days (range, 1 to 22 days); 2 of the patients received anti- viral therapy within 48 ... novel H1N1. The first data from Mexico showed that most of the patients were previously healthy (1). In our study, the most of critically ill patients had comorbid- ities...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 11:04

... and stress. The discussion on a plausible role of adiponectin in critical illness has been raised by the fact of finding hypoadiponectinemia in critically ill patients. The nature of this phenomenon, ... with the as yet unsolved adiponectin paradox: a decreased concentration of adiponectin in obesity seems paradoxical, since fat tissue is the only known source of this pr...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 18:22

... mixed lymphocyte reaction. Hypothetical model of a T H 2 dominated adoptive immune response and local T H 2 promoting micromilieu induced by pollen-associated lipid mediatorsFigure 1 Hypothetical ... which preferentially recruit further T H 2 cells to the site of pollen exposure. Taken together, the possible effects of PALMs on both cells of the innate and the adoptive immun...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 21:20

... antibiotic therapy based on the most likely type(s) of infection; ensure adequate hemodynamic and respiratory support; try to identify the source of infection; identify and ascertain the extent of his ... causing cellular and then organ dysfunction (Task force of the American College of Critical Care Medicine and Society of Critical Care Medicine [2]). The ultima...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 20:20

... Heemskerk 1 1 Departments of Biochemistry and Human Biology, University of Maastricht, the Netherlands; 2 Department of Medical Physiology, University Medical Centre Utrecht, the Netherlands Fluorescence ratio ... by Ca 2+ , cAMP and sulfhydryl reagents To better understand the effects of these agents on the spiking p rocess, we directly measured the Ca 2+ release through t...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 17:20

... interference (RNAi) assays and assays using a truncated Ku-80 mutant to study the regulation of WD gene expression by the Ku proteins. Finally, we assessed the activity of the WD promoter in the Ku-80-deficient ... a total volume of 50 lL containing 55 pg of competitor. At this concentration, the band intensity of the amplified product from the competitor was same as t...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 23:20