Báo cáo y học: "Cognitive dysfunction after critical illness: measurement, rehabilitation, and disclosure" ppsx

... disputes and dramas. The result wasn’t a serious dysfunction but merely a dearth of sleep for a year after discharge, as I would wake and stay awake every night. Many of those affected by post-ICU ... hardly stand, my hands shook because of muscle loss, and I was always out of breath. None of that is conducive to feeling and being mentally sharp. I pushed my rehabilitation very ha...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 18:22

... 0.22). Associations with mortality The all-cause ICU mortality rate was 23%, and corresponding 28-day and hospital mortality rates were 31% and 33%, respectively. Univariate analysis yielded significant associations ... determined by the interaction of preload, after- load, and contractility. These factors are frequently manipu- lated in ICU or are affected by underlying pathology (...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 08:20

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 10:20

... rheumatology, cardiology and onco- logy, who have explored and described mechanistic path- ways - paths reliably connecting biological plausibility and effect with organ performance and then outcomes ... relatively new study area the knowledge space is already occupied by poor studies and potentially unreliable data. We would like to encourage investigators to design studies that ar...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 20:21

... study by Gar- nacho-Montero and colleagues [24] did not differentiate between myopathy and neuropathy. In our study, hyper- osmolality during the first days after ICU admission was significantly ... neuromus- cular pathology [1] that, with regard to muscle pathology, is characterized by atrophy of type II muscle fibres and thick filament myopathy [2]. Diagnosis of critical illness m...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 20:22

... common carotid artery, pulmonary artery and veins, azygous vein, intra-thoracic vena cavae, and combined airway and vascular trauma. The innominate artery accounts for approximately half of the injuries ... fractures[30]. Historically bi-planar angiography has been the diagnos- tic modality of choice for evaluating blunt great vessel and aortic injury based on the landmark study by Pa...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 23:20

... which injury is caused, in part, by the causative organism and, in part, by the host’s own inflammatory response. Macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF) is a pro-inflammatory cytokine and a ... skin, kidney, and liver), pancreatic beta cells, cardiac myocytes, endothelial cells, and fibroblasts [4]. MIF has been reported to play a role in the pathogenesis of several inflam- mator...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 18:22

... The cytochrome P450 isoenzymes CYP2C19 and CYP2D6, for example, are involved in the metabolism of many widely used drugs, and polymorphisms in these enzymes give rise to inter-individual and inter- ethnic-group ... significantly increased life span, by 33% in females and 16% in males, and are highly resistant to oxidative stress. IGF-1R +/- mice have normal energy metabolism, nutrie...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 14:22

... Dental Sciences and Surgery, General Hospital, Bari, Italy 2. Department of Medical Biochemistry, Medical Biology and Physics, General Hospital, Bari, Italy 3. Department of “Head and Neck diseases”, ... Despite hemodynamic stability in our patient, we examined anyway the possibility of an intracranial vascular event as the cause of unilateral mydriasis in the postoperative period...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 11:40

... of several critical pathways of autonomic nervous system, including the brain stem, spinal cord, hypothalamus and cerebral cortex. Demyelinating plaques may disrupt reflex pathways in the ... Table 1. Comorbidity Five patients (55%) had hyperlipidemia, 3 (33%) migraine and 2 (22%) patients had coronary artery disease and diabetes each. Symptoms of POTS Fatigue and palpitat...

Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2012, 09:39