Báo cáo y học: "Extravascular lung water index measurement in critically ill children does not correlate with a chest x-ray score of pulmonary edema" docx

... extravascular lung water index in critically ill children does not correlate with a chest x-ray score of pulmonary edema, nor with markers of oxygenation. Introduction Extravascular lung water index ... parameters of oxygenation. • A chest x-ray score of pulmonary edema in critically ill children does not correlate with...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 20:22

... Table 2. Patient characteristics per patient Probability Probability of death of death Patient Age Weight Length of PICU Ventilator PRISM II PIM number Gender (months) (kg) Diagnosis stay ... Diagnosis stay (days) days % % Outcome 1 F 24 14.0 Near Drowning 19 17 85 60 survived 2 F 83 18.0 Reconstruction of pulmonary artery 18 16 7 6 survived 3 F 23 14.0 Abdominal surgery 5...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 21:21

... origin is a fre- quent cause of mortality in critically ill patients. During ALI, the inflammatory process in the lungs may increase the microvas- cular pressure and permeability, resulting in an ... lipopolysaccharide; OA = oleic acid; PAOP = pulmonary arterial occlusion pressure; PAP = pulmonary arterial pressure; PVPI = pulmonary vascular permeability index; PVRI = p...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 20:20

... Meier-Hellmann A: Prognostic value of extravascular lung water in critically ill patients. Chest 2002, 122:2080-2086. 39. Davey-Quinn A, Gedney JA, Whiteley SM, Bellamy MC: Extravas- cular lung water and ... Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA 4 Section Head, Pulmonary Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Gra...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 20:21

... way in an emergency situation, in patients with normal neck anatomy, in whom trachea and larynx are palpated easily. The technical challenges of the local anatomy in the described subset of patients ... cuffs allowed for an increase in the duration of translaryngeal intubation, with a decrease in associated inci- dence and severity of damage to the larynx and the tra...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 19:21

... [16]. All patients had initial arterial lactate and blood gas mea- sured by blood gas analyser (Rapilab, Bayer Australia, Syd- ney, NSW, Australia, upper normal limit 2.00 mmol.L -1 ) at the time of ... usefulness in identifying criti- cally ill patients at higher risk of death has led to the adop- tion of lactate measurement in most blood gas analyzers and the frequent measure...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 20:21

... asynchrony. Conclusions A strategy for whole-body rehabilitation consisting of interruption of sedation and physical and occupational therapy in the earliest days of critical illness was safe and well tolerated, ... (physical and occupa- tional therapy) during periods of daily interruption of sedation (intervention; n=49) or daily interruption of sedation with therapy...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 21:21

... concentrations in patients with diabetes or renal disease [28,29]. As acute renal failure, mainly of prerenal origin dur ing hemodynamic deterioration, is a classical feature of critically ill patients, ... biomarker at early stages of insulin resistance identifying individuals at risk of developing diabetes and were even found in healthy individuals with a strong fami...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 21:21

... suggest that a bacterial ligand of integrin α5β1 may contribute to the aggressive behavior of RA FLSs by inducing the release of pro-inflammatory cytokines and a cartilage-degrading enzyme, such as ... T, Yli-Jama T, Jal- ava J, Vainio O, Toivanen P: Bacterial components in the syno- vial tissue of patients with advanced rheumatoid arthritis or osteoarthritis: analysis with...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 06:22

... (pSS): a European multicentre study. Ann Rheum Dis 2002, 61:398-404. 22. Takasaki Y, Yamanaka K, Takasaki C, Matsushita M, Yamada H, Nawata M, Matsudaira R, Ikeda K, Kaneda K, Hashimoto H: Anti- cyclic ... conception of the study and the acquisition, analysis, and interpretation of data and partic- ipated in drafting the manuscript. NL participated in the analy- sis and interpretat...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:23