Báo cáo y học: "Assessing the quantity of pulmonary edema in critically ill children" docx

... predicted body weight. Finally, the ability to interpret the fi nding that EVLW as measured by the transpulmonary thermodilution method did not correlate with EVLW assessed using the chest radiograph ... may be limited for several reasons. First, the radiographic scoring system may not have accurately refl ected the quantity of pulmonary edema. One important confounder...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 21:21

... directly above and parallel to the eyebrow, and one in the temple area. The BIS monitor is regularly used in anaesthesiology to quantify the hypnotic effects of anaesthetic drugs by means of a ... continuously dis- played (BIS-EEG), together with the device's estimate of the SR. The SR calculated by the BIS (SR-BIS) represents the percentage of epochs during...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 08:20

... critically ill patients may be further compromised by activation of the coagulation and inflammatory cascades in many critically ill patients for myriad reasons [25,26]. We hypothesize that the ... could better inform clinical decisions and minimize the dissemination of nondiscriminating and unnecessary tests. Pressing investigations in this field include accurate risk p...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:21

... Probability Probability of death of death Patient Age Weight Length of PICU Ventilator PRISM II PIM number Gender (months) (kg) Diagnosis stay (days) days % % Outcome 1 F 24 14.0 Near Drowning ... F 83 18.0 Reconstruction of pulmonary artery 18 16 7 6 survived 3 F 23 14.0 Abdominal surgery 5 3 78 17 survived 4 F 9 8.5 RSV 16 15 4 11 survived 5 F 31 16.0 Meningococcal diseas...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 21:21

... sedation in critically ill patients.  is approach of using analgesia alone and avoiding sedation, unless necessary, has been the standard of care in the author’s ICU in Denmark since 1999. Another ... especially in the setting of liver or renal failure and increase duration of mechanical ventilation [7]. Another noteworthy limitation that challenges the gene...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 07:21

... all of the data in the study and takes responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis. The authors disclose no conflict of interest for this study. Intramural ... evidenced by very low c-peptide levels in the face of significant hyperglycaemia. This finding supports the proposition that many factors commonly elevated in c...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 15:22

... to improve the safety of glycemic control. Data from CGM devices will likely add to the under- standing of glycemic control in the critically ill patient. As shown in Figure 4, obtaining daily glucose ... future technologies will help advance the field of glycemic con- trol in critical illness. The evidence may now support theuseofcurrentlyavailableCGMstoassistwithth...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 21:21

... Finally, with the inclusion of the time varying clinical variables, the estimates of HAART effect experi- enced the biggest improvement for most QOL domains, providing evidence that these clinical ... attempted to obtain unbiased estimates of HAART effects on QOL in WIHS by minimizing indica- tion bias and further adjusting for the effect of informative drop-outs using sev...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 05:20

... emer- gency and inpatient services, because of the involvement of the ACT team. The higher number of non-psychiatric inpatient days in the control group is probably a result of the pathways followed ... Hering LM, Oosthuizen PP: The revolving door phenomenon in psychiatry: comparing low- frequency and high-frequency users of psychiatric inpatient services in a deve...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:22

... infection, usually implanted during the primary dissemination phase of the infection, often in the distant past. In contrast to the primary case, which may occur anywhere in the lung, reactiva- tion ... backward bifurcation in may occur. Let us change only the value of the incubation rate in Table 1 obtained according to the following reasoning. Let us assume tha...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 16:20