Báo cáo y học: " Empiric anti-Candida therapy for patients with sepsis in the ICU: how little is too little" docx

... help refine the best empiric anti-Candida strategy for ICU patients with sepsis. Competing interests YG has received research funding and is on the advisory board for Merck and Pfizer. YG is also ... age-matched representatives of the general population [12,13]. These over- estimations exaggerate the affordability of empiric micafungin. Nevertheless, the main fin...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 18:22

... about your thinking style?" These questions should allow the patient to internalise the strategy they have used as well as reflect on the tasks in terms of thinking style. The evaluation ... was obtained from SLAM and the Institute of Psychiatry Ethics committee. Patients were informed as to the purpose of the treatment and that they could withdraw at any stage. All of...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 21:20

... included in the study. The median age of the patients was 58 ± 16 years. The duration of stay of the patients in the ICU was 7.4 ± 6.78 days. The final, retrospectively confirmed diagnoses of all patients ... of inflammatory markers for prediction of tumor necrosis factor-alpha and interleukin-6 in patients with systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) or...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 19:21

... ischaemic brain injury [54,66-68]. Profound hyperventilation may also jeopardise oxygen delivery to the brain tissue at risk. The underlying physio- logical mechanism is the Bohr effect: In the ... from infarcted tissue may be detrimental by primarily dehydrating intact brain, contracting healthy brain tissue volume, thereby aggravating pressure differentials, and causing devastat...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 08:20

... AChEIs clearly fit the updated definition of effective treatment by improving or maintaining all domains of AD (cognition, ADL, and behavior) in the short term, and by slowing the decline in these ... [64] in the treatment of agitation. Importantly, the potential psychotropic effects of ChEIs have also been increasingly explored. The cholinergic hy- pothesis of the 1980s l...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 20:23

... pseudotypes bearing the T271I mutant Envs in the entry assay (Fig. 3A and 3B), in the syncytial assay, the Δ2N mutant Envs showed a marked reduction in syncytia formation compared with the T271I mutants. ... removal of the N-linked glyco- sylation may have enhanced the ability of the Env to interact with CXCR4, either facilitating partial CD134- independent entry or...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 05:21

... number not for citation purposes) patients with ALI will need different therapy from patients with cardiogenic pulmonary edema, for whom they may be mis- taken. Second, for the intensivist, the question ... respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is an inflammatory lung injury involving both endothelial and epi- thelial layers of the alveolar-capillary membrane, with su...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 08:20

... reactions in the community. Prescribing clinicians, nonprescribing clinicians, and informed others such as pharmacists, should jointly develop and disseminate appropriate standards for intra-disciplinary ... compromises patient safety and undermines qual- ityofcareandtheefficiencyofthehealthcaredelivery system [49-52]. Relying on patients to contact other physicians on their own break...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 14:20

... with aim of instrument: E. Validation of instrument evaluative discriminative predictive planning Test-retest yes yes yes yes Internal consistency yes yes yes yes Validity longitudinal ... crucial for evaluative instruments. Conclusion The large number of available self-efficacy instruments shows the growing interest in measuring self-efficacy in patients with chroni...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 16:20

... received intravenous therapy instead. The oral rehydration solution given to the patients was the same as that used in the pilot study. Following a meal and after 19:00 on the day before surgery, ... preoper- ative fasting from the evening before the day of sur- gery, many patients showed low FENa values, which rose in response to rehydration by administration of...

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