Báo cáo y học: "Clinical review: Intra-abdominal hypertension: does it influence the physiology of prone ventilation" doc

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... reporting barriers partly owing to fewer liability concerns, and an opportunity to study recovery patterns [75]. Ideally, error reporting should be voluntary, anonymous, centralized to increase ... Herout PM, Erstad BL: Medication errors involving continu- ously infused medications in a surgical intensive care unit. Crit Care Med 2004, 32:428-432. 80. Stambouly JJ, McLaughlin LL, Mandel...

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... our PICU is the result of the interpretation of the chest radio- Table 2 Overall concordance of the interpretation of pediatric intensivists (PI) compared to pediatric radiologists (PR) Concordant ... interpretation of chest radiographs by PI and PR in selected clinical situations. These data support the current practice of the PI making therapeuti...

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... severity (where Review Clinical review: Severe asthma Spyros Papiris, Anastasia Kotanidou, Katerina Malagari and Charis Roussos Department of Critical Care and Pulmonary Services, National and Kapodistrian ... hypovolemia, and primar- ily lung hyperinflation. Dynamic hyperinflation, as previously discussed, occurs when the highly increased airway expira- tory resis...

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... of highly cont- aminated material. Hand washing is an important yet underused measure to prevent nosocomial infections. Review Clinical review: Non-antibiotic strategies for preventing ventilator-associated ... 9.2 days of additional hospital stay [11], and Fagon et al. calculated the median length of stay in the ICU for the patients that developed VAP to be 21 days, versus a me...

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... therapy play a significant role in preventing mortality and morbidity in pediatric patients. Preventing bacteremia associated with dental or oral surgery can be accomplished by prophylactic administration ... wound infections (16%); the female genitourinary tract (5%); and lung infections (4%). Fainstein et al. [31] found bacteremia caused by B. fragilis to be common in patien...

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... perfusion may indicate blood flow redistribution. Alternatively, some meta- bolic functions of the hepato -splanchnic region may have been impaired. Dopamine may directly inhibit isoenzymes of the cytochrome ... Liver dysfunction was associated with a markedly higher mortality rate [28], and the ability to increase splanchnic oxygen delivery in septic conditions correlated with a lower mor...

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... This indicates that HSS suppresses neutrophil function by intercepting signal pathways upstream of or apart from protein kinase C. Neutrophils incubated in hypertonic saline showed a reduction in ... Hyper- tonic saline in stabilized hyperdynamic sepsis. Shock 1996, 5: 130-134. 17. Kristensen J, Modig J: Ringer’s acetate and dextran-70 with or without hypertonic saline in en...

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... depression in sepsis and septic shock Myocardial hypoperfusion The possibility of myocardial dysfunction in sepsis was origi- nally proposed and described in the 1960s. Its etiology, however, remained ... in septic myocardial depression. Cellular mechanisms of septic myocardial depression Depression of myocardial contractility by TNF-α, IL-1β and septi...

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... of animal models with fever and infection, call into question the routine practice of treating fever in critically ill patients. Keywords fever, heat shock proteins, intensive care unit, nuclear factor-κB, ... the intensive care unit (ICU) with severe sepsis, the incidence of fever is more than 90% [2]. As there is variation in the incidence of reported fevers, the etiol...

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... al. dilution). In arteriovenous circuits blood is driven by the patient’s blood pressure through a filter, via an extracorporeal circuit originating from an artery and terminating in a vein. However, in ... for blood purification, but are currently in the clinical testing phase. One such system is the molecular adsorbent regener- ating system device, which employs a polysulfo...

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... is Review Clinical review: High-frequency oscillatory ventilation in adults — a review of the literature and practical applications Frank V Ritacca 1 and Thomas E Stewart 2,3 1 Clinical Fellow, Division of ... ventilator circuit and is therefore only a surrogate of the actual pressure oscillations in the airways. These pressures are generally g...

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... emergency teams in Australia, and outreach care in the UK. Critical care has a central role to play in all three developments, which share the common aim of improving the safe care of acutely ill patients ... identifying research publications that exam- ined ways of improving the integration of critical care with acute care services as a means of imp...

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... [3,9,34,41,44,45,50, 54-61]: Osmotic therapy with hyperosmolar agents aimed at lowering ICP and reducing brain oedema by drawing water from infarcted tissue may be detrimental by primarily dehydrating intact brain, contracting ... particular danger of malignant infarction), Review Clinical review: Therapy for refractory intracranial hypertension in ischaemic stroke Eric Jütt...

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... secondarily in uences IAP/IAH is likely to greatly in uence respiratory mechanics and outcomes. Further study of the role of IAP/IAH in the physiology and outcomes of PV in hypoxemic respiratory failure ... 61:1359-1365. doi:10.1186/cc9099 Cite this article as: Kirkpatrick AW, et al.: Intra-abdominal hypertension: does it in uence the physiology of prone ventil...

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