Surgical intensive care medicine 2016

Ngày tải lên: 06/09/2016, 19:12

... 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

... efficacy and safety of intensive insulin therapy compared with standard glucose control in patients hospitalised for medical problems, surgical non-cardiovascular procedures or trauma in a mixed medical/ surgical ... [1-4] A randomised trial of 1548 patients hospitalised in a surgical intensive care unit (ICU) showed that maintaining normal glucose l...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:35

... Predefined major abnormalities are summarized in Table aAbsolute number of chest radiographs (% of all daily routine chest radiographs) bAbsolute number of patients (% of all patients with daily routine ... radiographs (% of all daily routine chest radiographs) bAbsolute number of patients (% of all patients with daily routine chest radiographs)...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:39

... of elimination of routine chest radiographs in a pediatric intensive care unit Crit Care Med 1999, 27:1588-1593 Hall JB, White SR, Karrison T: Efficacy of daily routine chest radiographs in intubated, ... were routine films Nine of 35 (25.7%) patients had an average of 1.6 additional films over a period In this quality assurance survey, we observed...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:45

... responsible for the decrease in acetylcholine activity in the brain 2.5–26.4 Elevated level of serum urea nitrogen The prevalence of delirium in the Emergency Department was 9.6% [28] In this series, the ... whether cerebral hypoxemia or hypertensive encephalopathy is present The patient with hypoglycemic-induced delirium virtually always has a history of insulin-dep...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:21

... analogs review The toxicity of NO probably involves the activation of poly(ADP-ribose)-synthetase enzyme by peroxynitrite The effects of a novel poly-(ADP-ribose)-synthetase inhibitor (PJ34) ... coronary blood flow and myocardial microvascular oxygenation in a porcine model of endotoxemia Likewise, in another pig model of endotoxemia, Dr Radermacher et al., of the University of...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:21

... of the Working Group on Sepsis-Related Problems of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine Intensive Care Med 1996, 22:707-710 Anonymous: American College of Chest Physician /Society of ... mortality and recovery from ARF were the same in both groups The authors of that study concluded that their data not support the use of one therapy over the o...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 19:21

... ICUs? The answer is obviously a resounding ‘no’ The MET is simply the first hospital-wide system to attempt to optimize the care of the seriously ill before and after their admission to the ICU ... and neither they have insight into their own deficiencies in the practice of acute medicine Furthermore, even if a specialist were able to recognize a seriously ill patient consis...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 20:20

... an improved blood management in intensive care medicine is mandatory Such options include decreasing blood loss for diagnostic purposes using pediatric sampling tubes [2], establishing restrictive ... price but, sooner or later, recombinant human erythropoietin will find its place in intensive care medicine Artificial oxygen carriers are fascinating new drugs in clinical d...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 20:20

... gastrointestinal tract in the critical care setting They identified intestinal histamine release in a selective regional intestinal ischemia–reperfusion model, not during ischemia but only during ... subcutaneous microdialysis in long-term glucose monitoring in the neonatal intensive care unit By using subcutaneous microdialysis, blood draws and painful stress resulting from...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 20:20

... airway pressure Benefits of maintained spontaneous breathing during airway pressure release ventilation/ biphasic positive airway pressure Mechanical ventilation with positive end-expiratory airway ... influence of controlled mandatory ventilation (CMV), intermittent mandatory ventilation (IMV) and biphasic intermittent positive airway pressure (BIPAP) o...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 20:20

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 22:21

... 348:1546-1554 Haraldsen P, Andersson R: Quality of life, morbidity, and mortality after surgical intensive care: a follow-up study of patients treated for abdominal sepsis in the surgical intensive care ... Strachan M, Kilonzo M, Vale L: Quality of life before and after intensive care Anaesthesia 2005, 60:332-339 Granja C, Teixeira-Pinto A, Costa-Pereir...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 03:20

... expose themselves to a hypoxic environment High-altitude physiology and pathophysiology The troposphere is the lowest portion of the atmosphere and envelopes the earth’s entire surface Within the ... (HAPE) and high-altitude cerebral oedema Hypoxia and inflammation as mechanisms of injury Hypoxia fulfils criteria as a causative agent [7] for the acute high-altitude illnesses The i...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 03:20