Báo cáo y học: "Continuous glucose monitors prove highly accurate in critically ill children" pot

... Access Continuous glucose monitors prove highly accurate in critically ill children Brian C Bridges 1 , Catherine M Preissig 2,3,4 , Kevin O Maher 2,5 , Mark R Rigby 2,3* Abstract Introduction: Hyperglycemia ... safety of this practice in critically ill patients. The aim of our study is to determine if a continuous, interstitial glucose monitor will correlate with bloo...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 21:21

... continuously displayed, thus enabling moni- toring of cerebral function. The BIS monitor is relatively easy to use, and nurses and physicians can be taught how to interpret recordings. We hypothesized ... relatively easy to use, and nurses and physicians can easily be taught how to interpret recordings. SR-BIS and recorded EEG traces are continuously displayed, thus enabling continuous monito...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 08:20

... possible influence of the renin–angiotensin system on EPO gene expression [18]. Renin is released by the kidney, and its regulatory mech- anisms include stimulation by postcapillary output in kidney perfusion ... hormonal dysfunction, particularly in the hypothalamic–hypophyseal–adrenal axis and the renin– angiotensin–aldosterone system. Because EPO deficiency may be expected in acute r...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 20:20

... analogous to using insulin to treat type 1 DM. Practition- ers may need to rethink insulin administration and glycaemic control measures if insulin therapy may be considered as sup- plementing a deficient ... G: Intensive insulin ther- apy in the medical ICU. The New England journal of medicine 2006, 354:449-61. 3. Finney SJ, Zekveld C, Elia A, Evans TW: Glucose control and mortality in...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 15:22

... 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 ... 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 disease 6 5 22 19 sur...

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... measured by the transpulmonary thermodilution method can be more accurately determined using this scoring system.  e authors are to be commended for completing this study. Overall there are many ... whether indexing EVLW to predicted body weight is useful in children, indexing is likely to be relevant in this cohort where the range of reported weights is up to 152 kg. EVLW was in...

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... and minimize the dissemination of nondiscriminating and unnecessary tests. Pressing investigations in this field include accurate risk profiling for both VTE and bleeding events in critically ill ... and inflammatory cascades in many critically ill patients for myriad reasons [25,26]. We hypothesize that the modest amount of research on VTE in the critically ill creates...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:21

... that, although abnormal car- riage was found in the most severely ill patients, it mainly influ- enced mortality in the less severely ill. Finally, Wisplinghoff and colleagues [24], reported results ... study [21] respectively. Interest- ingly, in all four studies mortality was statistically higher in patients colonized or infected with A. baumannii than in con- trols. The attrib...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:23

... [34] Yes No Yes Yes No Raine [35] Yes No Yes No Yes Heikkinen [31] No No Yes No No Freeman [27] Yes No Yes Yes No Massick [40] Yes No Yes Yes No Melloni [33] No No Yes Yes No Sustic [36] No No Yes ... Baseline Imbalance Hazard [30] No No Yes Yes No Crofts [26] No No Yes Yes No Friedman [28] No No Yes Yes No Holdgaard [32] Yes No Yes Yes No Jong Joon [21] No No Yes No No Gysin [29] No Yes Yes...

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... (CYP1A2) activity and co-administra- tion of interacting drugs [39]. The acute inflammatory cascade related to sepsis may adversely affect cytochrome P450 reg- ulation, including CYP1A2 enzyme ... hours, with only 15 minutes more in the melatonin group. As a measure of sleep, actigraphy is not ideal in critically ill patients, being influenced by abnormalities of the neuromuscular sys...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 10:20