For all intents and purposes vs for all intensive purposes

Ngày tải lên: 29/08/2016, 09:48

... of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus 155 Critical Care 17 18 19 20 156 June 2004 Vol No Farr and Belligan aureus infections in German intensive care units Infection 2002, 30:198-202 Marshall ... ever was Con: No, isolation precautions for all ICU patients with MRSA colonization are not essential Geoffrey Bellingan To reduce the spread of MRSA, I agree that unive...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 20:20

... 75.80% and their overall accuracies were 83.33% and 88.37% respectively (Table 3) Discussion The sensitivity and specificity of the Korean CAM-ICU was 89.8% and 77.4%, respectively, for nurse and ... version The back-translated version was sent to Ely et al for approval and acceptance of the Korean version Validation of Delirium Assessment and Interrate...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 15:22

... TRUE MACH NUMBER - M 1.1 1.0 0.9 0.8 Figure TAS and CAS Relationship with Varying Altitude and Temperature (Continued) 8-2.2 100 TRUE AIRSPEED - KNOTS Figure Mach Number vs TAS Variation with Altitude ... 0.8 0.7 0.6 0.5 0.4 0.3 0.2 0.1 0 TRUE MACH NUMBER - M Figure TAS and CAS Relationship with Varying Altitude and Temperature 1800 1700 1600 1500 1400 TRUE AIRS...

Ngày tải lên: 17/12/2013, 06:15

... is a Cell?  Cell – Basic unit of living things Organisms are either:  Unicellular – made of one cell such as bacteria and amoebas OR  Multicellular – made of many cells such as plants and animals ... envelope Bigger and more complex than prokaryotes Have membrane bound Organelles (golgi, ER, lysosomes…etc) DNA – double-stranded and forms chromosomes (highly organized) Can be u...

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Ngày tải lên: 17/04/2014, 15:00

... rate quality of care Crit Care Med 1998, 26:773-781 Zimmerman J: Measuring intensive care unit performance: a way to move forward Crit Care Med 2002, 30:2149-2150 Rivera R, Sanchez-Cruz J, Abizanda ... use by hospitals should allow the data for many of these instruments to be collected automatically as part of routine care This implies a competitive advantage that SAPS III...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 19:22

... expanded SAPS II model For some units, the expanded SAPS II model exhibited good or poor performance not detected by the customized SAPS II model Although SMR is one aspect of an ICU's performance, ... JR, Loirat P: Can we evaluate the performance of an intensive care unit? Curr Opin Crit Care 1995, 1:219-220 Ridley S: Severity of illness scoring systems and performance appr...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:20

... The impact of an hematocrit of 20% during normothermic cardiopulmonary bypass for elective low risk coronary artery bypass graft surgery on oxygen delivery and clinical outcome - a randomized controlled ... linguistic revision of this manuscript by Mrs Sirka Sander (Certified and approved translator of the English language) and thank their colleagues Mrs Lisa Adam, Mrs Anja He...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 19:20

... ICU-acquired hyponatraemia, while baseline creatinine, mechanical ventilation and level of care were associated with ICU-acquired hypernatraemia Outcomes of care Length of stay and mortality in the ICU and ... determine both the aetiology of the ICU-acquired hyponatraemia and hypernatraemia and clinicians' responses Second, our study was observational in natur...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:31

... advantage of being readily available and easily incorporated into general ICU databases without additional data collection Customized versions of SAPS II and MPM II24 for septic patients were introduced ... With increasing international travel and the trend toward globalization, an international perspective on the outcome following sepsis is becoming increasingly importa...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 19:22

... remifentanil infusions in ICU patients with varying degrees of renal impairment, including patients with severe renal dysfunction A series of down-titrations of the remifentanil infusion were ... safety profiles of remifentanil administered by continuous intravenous infusion for up to 72 hours in ICU patients with varying degrees of renal impairment...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 20:20

... Regimen (ASSENT)-3 Investigators: Efficacy and safety of tenecteplase in combination with enoxaparin, abciximab, or unfractionated heparin: the ASSENT-3 randomised trial in acute myocardial infarction ... for Health Research, MAC holds a Career Investigator Award from the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada, and PJD holds a Senior Research Fellowship Award of the Can...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 22:22

... ongoing discussion intrinsic to the doctor–patient relationship Establishing why rather than whether the patient accepts or rejects treatments gives insight into the individual’s world view and ... autonomous choice Competing interests The author declares that they have no competing interests References Tillyard ARJ: Ethics review: ‘Living wills’ and intensive care – an overvi...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 08:20