Continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT) in critically ill patients with acute renal failure (ARF

... 28 Chapter 1.1 Acute Renal Failure (ARF) in Critically Ill patients 1 Acute Renal Failure (ARF) -Related Clinical Syndromes Critically ill patients who develop acute renal failure (ARF) are known ... Publications arising from material in the thesis 1.1 ii Table of contents Chapter i xxii Introduction Acute renal failure (ARF) in criticall...

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... study of critically ill patients with ARF in 25 Finnish ICUs found that the 288 one-year survivors with complete QOL data were predicted to gain a mean of 22.9 life- years and 15.4 lifetime QALYs ... TISS and ICU cost Intensive Care Med 1998, 24:1009-1017 doi: 10.1186/cc8957 Cite this article as: Linko et al., One-year mortality, quality of life and predicted...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 20:21

... al Introduction Materials and methods Acute kidney injury (AKI) requiring renal replacement therapy (RRT) occurs in to 6% of critically ill patients and is associated with high mortality and ... A, Ronco C: Beginning and Ending Supportive Therapy for the Kidney (BEST Kidney) Investigators Acute renal failure in critically ill patients: a multina...

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... gelatinaseassociated lipocalin at inception of renal replacement therapy predicts survival in critically ill patients with acute kidney injury Critical Care 2010 14:R9 Submit your next manuscript to ... (total SOFA), respectively (Log-rank (Mantel-Cox) P = 0.01; Log-rank test for trend P = 0.002) at inception of renal replacement therapy in criti...

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... this article as: Elseviers et al.: Renal replacement therapy is an independent risk factor for mortality in critically ill patients with acute kidney injury Critical Care 2010 14:R221 Submit your ... MR, Tan I, Bouman C, Macedo E, Gibney N, Tolwani A, Oudemans-Van Straaten HM, Ronco C: Patient and kidney survival by dialysis modality in critically ill...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 07:21

... Accordingly, we conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis to determine whether early versus late initiation of RRT in critically ill patients with AKI is associated with a survival benefit ... of search strategy Detailed summary of search terms and strategy used for systematic literature search Abbreviations AKI: acute kidney injury; AKIN: Acute...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 07:21

... secondary analysis of the SOAP (Sepsis Occurrence in Acutely Ill Patients) study, Payen and colleagues [1] examined the influence of fluid balance on survival of critically ill patients with AKI ... [19] As a minimum, all critically ill patients should have an estimate of baseline ‘dry’ weight and determination of the iatrogenic daily and cumulative flu...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:22

... of disease attributable to sARF Our data indicate that critically ill patients with sARF may remain ill with an increased risk for death for a duration greater than the total ICU or hospital length ... We thank Kaye Holt and Stephanie Hui for their help with database management and data entry, and Reza Shahpori for providing data from the ICU Tracer database This...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:20

... deficiency Treating this deficiency with AT concentrate was more effective and faster for obtaining adequate anticoagulation than using additional heparin Cardiopulmonary bypass is a traumatic procedure ... hemofilter failure, and citrate anticoagulation was associated with a greater increase in AT over time after adjustment for temporal changes in illness severity Finally...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:22

... physical chemistry analysis of acid–base disorders in critically ill patients Anaesthesia 2001, 56:530-533 Wilkes P: Hypoproteinemia strong-ion difference, and acid– base status in critically ill ... accumulation of additional unmeasured anions (SIG) On average, these two factors contributed an excess of 1.3 mEq and 3.9 mEq/l of acidifying anions, respectively These ef...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 19:22

... the ICU Gastrointestinal bleeding, intracranial haemorrhage and septic shock during the ICU stay were associated with a greater risk of death, indicating that clinical course and medical care – ... mortality rate in critically ill patients with SLE is high We posit that gastrointestinal bleeding, intracranial haemorrhage and septic shock are significant prognostic facto...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 22:21

... frequency of anemia, phlebotomy usage, and transfusion practices in patients with prolonged ICU stay, and to determine factors associated with PRBC transfusion hemodynamic instability, active ischemia, ... regarding the reason and transfusion trigger was documented by examining the pertinent clinical data and physician/nursing documentation When no apparent indicatio...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 03:20

... left many results in an intermediate and non-diagnostic range Overlapping cases of ALI/ARDS and cardiac dysfunction are common in critically ill patients and will probably limit the clinical utility ... excluding patients with a serum creatinine of more than 3.0 mg/dl had a minimal impact on performance (AUC 0.70) However, serum creatinine may not always accurately ref...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 08:21

... disease is significantly correlated with adverse outcome, patients with a prolonged stay in the ICU still may attain an acceptable level of health-related quality of life [20] Critically ill hemato-oncological ... Survival at 28 days and year after ICU admission was obtained from the patient files of the oncological outpatient section Statistical analysis Data are presented a...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:22

... galactomannan; IA: invasive aspergillosis; IBPA: invasive bronchial- Page 11 of 12 pulmonary aspergillosis; ICU: intensive care unit; IPA: invasive pulmonary aspergillosis; LRT: lower respiratory ... Garnacho-Montero J, Amaya-Villar R, Ortiz-Leyba C, Leon C, Alvarez-Lerma F, Nolla-Salas J, Iruretagoyena J, Barcenilla F: Isolation of Aspergillus spp from the respiratory tract...

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