Báo cáo y học: "Nicotine withdrawal and agitation in ventilated critically ill patients" docx

... tubes and cathe- ters, and new interventions including supplemental sedation and physical restraint. • These results suggest the need to be aware of nicotine- withdrawal syndrome in critically ill ... dependency by using the FTND in ICU settings. Identifying patients at risk of behavioral disorders may lead to earlier interventions in routine clinical practice. Introduction...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 20:21

... models, and the resultant coefficients were retrans- formed using the Duan smearing method [18] to yield incre- mental days and dollars, respectively. The co-variates initially included in the ... confounding variables: age, sex, race, Charlson Comorbidity Index, baseline and nadir hemoglobin, hospital-acquired pneumonia, blood stream infection, gastrointestinal endoscopy, abdominal...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 10:20

... monitoring in overweight critically ill patients: invasive or noninvasive? Ali Araghi, Joseph J Bander and Jorge A Guzman Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Wayne State ... was involved in manuscript drafting and critical revisions. JG was involved in data analysis and interpretation, manuscript drafting, and critical manuscript revisions. All autho...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:23

... bacilli in 63% of primary bactere- mias (45% Enterobacteriaceae); Acinetobacter and Pseu- domonas in 28 and 22% of VAPs; Candida in 70% of urinary- tract infections; and Gram-negative bacilli in ... therapy, clinically significant bleeding occurred in 17% of patients, and was sig- nificantly more frequent in non-survivors. It has been associ- ated with increases in morta...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:24

... Calibration and discrimination by daily Logistic Organ Dysfunction scoring comparatively with daily Sequential Organ Failure Assessment scoring for predicting hospital mortality in critically ill ... Opin Crit Care 2008, 14:483-484. 2. Moreno R, Jordan B, Metnitz P: The changing prognostic determinants in the critically ill patient. In 2007 Yearbook of Intensive care and...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 20:21

... with liver enzymes and electrolytes. Insulin levels were determined by ELISA. Initially, and if any change in insulin infusion or feeding occurred or if glucose levels were not in the desired range, ... RM, Heyland DK, Cook DJ, Malhotra A, Dhaliwal R, Henderson WR, Chittock DR, Finfer S, Talmor D: Intensive insulin therapy and mortality among critically ill patients: a meta- ana...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 21:21

... study. All authors were involved in the design, analysis and interpretation of data; in the drafting and revision of the article; and in the final approval of the version for submission. Competing ... circadian rhythm of melatonin secretion in sedated critically ill patients with severe sepsis. Crit Care Med 2002, 30:536-540. 10. Friese RS: Sleep and recovery from critical...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 07:21

... ventricle contractility may increase myocardial oxygen demand. Because myocardial oxygen extraction is already almost maximal at rest, every increase in myocardial oxygen demand must be accompanied by increased ... endothelium is increased, especially in septic patients, potentially leading to microcirculatory impairment and tissue hypoxia [13]. Tolerance to anemia in healthy subjects...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 23:20

... subtype B) and V3 CM242 (subtype E) peptides, which distinguishes HIV-1 subtype B and E infection in Thai individuals and confirmed by se- quencing, when indicated [19, 20]. Specimens and ... neurological or psychiatric illnesses including major depression, and did not have central nervous system opportunistic infection, active opportunistic infection in any organ system,...

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... disturbing airway physiology through a number of different path- ways. Cpn and Mpn species are able to generate proinflammatory cytokines both in vivo and in vitro. 11 Both agents are involved in ... measured by FEV 1 and accordingly associated with a higher daytime symptom score and other markers of asthma severity. 45,48 The timing of the infection may also play an important r...

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