Báo cáo y học: "Manual muscle strength testing of critically ill patients: feasibility and interobserver agreement" pdf

... with the feasibility of MMT in critically ill patients. De Jonghe et al. [4] identified 332 critically ill medical and surgical patients who met the inclusion requirement of 7 or more days of mechanical ... test characteristics in other critically ill patients. We studied the feasibility and interobserver agreement of this sum score in a mixed cohort of critic...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 07:21

... devel- opment of polyneuropathy and myopathy in critically ill patients. Crit Care Med 2001, 29:2281-2286. 69. Bednarik J, Lukas Z, Vondracek P: Critical illness polyneuromy- opathy: the electrophysiological ... risk and the amount of sedation or antipsychotic therapy required in these patients may be increased by their presence. The support and financing of polysomnography in...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 08:20

... 0.002 The values are presented as mean ± standard deviation, if not stated otherwise. APACHE, Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation; BMI, body mass index; CVP, central venous pressure; ... parameters MV (days) 7.4 ± 11.9 4.3 ± 6.1 15.5 ± 18.0 <0.001 3.6 ± 5.9 10.0 ± 14.1 <0.001 ICU stay (days) 8.8 ± 12.8 5.6 ± 7.3 17.5 ± 19.0 <0.001 4.8 ± 6.9 11.7 ± 15.1 <0.001 ICU mort...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:23

... cause of Author and of age of of ICU stay Number sleep year published Method patients patients ICU type (days) Main noise sources ventilated disruption? Hilton, 1976 [24] Polysomnography + continuous ... modification: they must be easy to implement and they must not diminish the safety of the patients. Both noise and light are often the primary paired concerns of behaviour m...

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... 2 of 2 (page number not for citation purposes) study showed that BNP levels were increased in critically ill patients with severe sepsis or septic shock regardless of the presence or absence of ... heart failure [6]. The body of evidence therefore indicates that BNP and N-terminal pro- BNP should not be used to diagnose systolic or diastolic heart failure in critically ill p...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 16:21

... cortisol. Measuring total cortisol has poor sensitivity and specifi city and high variability in critically ill patients [2]. In addition, the immunoassays used to determine total cortisol are subject ... as albumin, they require measurement of transcortin (a lab test not widely available), and they do not adequately account for any dilutional eff ects of massive resuscitatio...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 20:21

... factors but, as they acknowledge, it is very likely there were many ‘unknowns’ that were potentially rele- vant. Bias by indication is very likely in this sort of analysis whereby factors aff ecting ... the TRICC trial and its relevance today. Abstract Current evidence suggests that critically ill patients tolerate anaemia well and that blood transfusions may increase the risk o...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 20:22

... reasons, tight clinical monitoring of gastrointestinal motility is central in the clinical management of critically ill patients, and the advantages of early enteral nutrition versus parenteral ... supplementation of some of these factors may be bene cial under conditions of critical illness. From a pragmatic point of view, the most feasible way towards a restoratio...

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... percep- tion of inspiratory effort and respiratory drive are inver- sely proportional to inspiratory muscle strength and may help expla in why an increased MIP contributed to weaning. Whenever severely ... Gainesville, FL, 32610, USA. Authors’ contributions ADM had full access to all of the data in the study and takes responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accu...

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... interference of socio-demographic and other psychopathology were investigated by logistic regression and relationships of the IPDS and the concep t of PDs were studied by a latent variable path analysis. Results: ... absent, and the optimal cut-off value of ≥4, showed a sensitivity of 0.77 and specificity of 0.71. Among the shorter versions we mention good proper- ties...

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