Báo cáo y học: "Non-invasive ventilation for critically ill patients with pandemic H1N1 2009 influenza A virus infection" pot

... Ltd Non-invasive ventilation for critically ill patients with pandemic H1N1 2009 in uenza A virus infection Silvio A Ñamendys-Silva 1 *, Marisol Hernández-Garay 2 and Eduardo Rivero-Sigarroa 3 See ... and invasive ventilation. Considering the high failure rate of NIV therapy in patients with PIAH1N1 virus infection and ALI/ARDS, the treatment of ARDS associ...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 20:21

... messages should we take away from the study by Rana and colleagues regarding the selection of appropriate ALI patients for a trial of NIV? Is there a severity of acute respiratory failure beyond ... Esteban A, Frutos-Vivar F, Ferguson ND, Arabi Y, Apezteguia C, Gonzalez M, Epstein SK, Hill NS, Nava S, Soares MA, et al.: Non- invasive positive-pressure ventilation for respiratory...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:24

... treat hypoxemic respiratory failure, particularly patients with acute lung injury/acute respiratory distress syndrome (ALI/ARDS), remains unclear. In the previous issue of Critical Care, Rana and ... colleagues [4] examine this application of NIV and identify risk factors for failure. Rana and colleagues [4] evaluated the outcomes of an observational cohort of patients with ALI trea...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:24

... undertaken to identify interventions that used exercise therapy as a treatment modality for hip osteoarthritis. The quality of each article was critically appraised and graded according to standardized ... Health-related quality of life, short form 36; OA: osteoarthritis; PEDro: physiotherapy evidence database; PsycINFO: abstract database of psychological literature; VAS: visual analog...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 14:22

... suggests a large decrease in mortality? Perhaps the underlying rationale is unsound? At a theoretical level, inducing apoptosis of cells causing a maladaptive inflammatory reaction by means of a pro-oxidative ... ignored. Commentary Selenium supplementation in critically ill patients: can too much of a good thing be a bad thing? Daren K Heyland Clinical Evaluation Research Un...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 08:20

... inter- preted with caution. Renal failure, hepatic dysfunction, and sedative and analgesic use, each common among ICU patients, can be associated with significant EEG changes that make PSG interpretation ... problematic [10,11]. Sedative- induced beta EEG activity, for example, may lead to an overestimation of wake or stage 1 sleep [12]. Also, EEG slowing, which is frequently seen in...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 08:20

... consistently lower anti-factor Xa levels after subcutaneous heparin in critically ill patients [4]. In another similar study, critically ill patients with excessive subcutaneous oedema had lower anti-factor ... critically ill patients, such as full immobilisation or withholding anticoagulant prophylaxis because of a high bleeding risk, it was hypothesized that limite...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 20:21

... median blood loss for anemic critically ill patients has been estimated to be as high as 128ml per day [26].  is may represent a median iron loss as high as 64 mg per day. As daily iron intake ... hepcidin as a diagnostic tool? Anemia is not only very frequent among critically ill patients, it is also associated with increased transfusion rates and worse outcomes (incr...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 07:21

... Stella Smith is a Specialist Registrar in General Surgery. Mr Moayad Aljarabah is a Registrar in General Surgery. Mr Graeme Ferguson is a Consultant Vascular Surgeon at the Royal Bolton NHS Foundation ... post-operatively with a three day history of fever, rigors and swelling of the left leg. On examination she was noted to be py rexial at 38.0°C, tachycardic and hypotensive. She ha...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 12:20

... associated with anterior cruciate ligament lesions in athletes. Injury 1993, 24:557-561. 15. Tandogan RN, Taşcer O, Kayaalp A, Taşckiran E, Pinar H, Alparslan B, Alturfan A: Analysis of meniscal and ... was obtained from the patient for publication of this case report and any accompany- ing images. A copy of the written consent is available for review by the Editor-in-Chief of this...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 14:21