... National Guard soldiers and their extended families It has one of the largest criticalcare units in the Kingdom serve 40 beds and runs by qualified pulmonary andcriticalcare board certified consultants ... our intensive care unit in a period over six years and to examine the characteristics, presentation, underlying risk factors, outcome of patientsand to highlight the possible causes of delaying ... in the ICU at the time of admission Symptoms are summarized in Table Treatment was initiated on the basis of the clinical diagnosis made during admission to the ICU in 18 (54%) patients The initial...
... those pertaining to sleep measurement in adult patients during their criticalcare admission and published in full in English Study comparing different sleep measurement techniques In the context ... patients receiving intensive care Crit Care Med 2001, 29:277-282 44 Frisk U, Nordstrom G: Patients sleep in an intensive care unit patientsand nurses’ perception Intensive Crit Care Nurs 2003, ... incriticalcarepatients tend to be very small, with only out of 23 being completed in more than 25 criticalcarepatients (published as three reports [11,26,29]) and the vast majority examining...
... observed in animal models andinpatients with ALI with reduction in intrapulmonary shunt These data suggest that allowing spontaneous breathing activity in ALI could help to reduce lung injury ... significantly influenced resting short-term breathing patterns by selectively affecting the duration of expiration A reduction in PEEP was paralleled by an increase in respiratory rate andin minute ... recovered in 36 patients; in 14 patients isolation of Aspergillus spp was interpreted as colonization (mortality 50%), in 20 patients it was interpreted as invasive aspergillosis (mortality 80%), and...
... participated in the design of the study, performed both methods in the intensive care unit setting, and helped in the statistical analysis AK participated in the design of the study and coordination and ... methods in the intensive care unit setting and helped to draft the manuscript JP performed both methods in the intensive care unit setting and helped to draft the manuscript GS participated in the design ... rate and may result in a lower incidence of CVC-BSI compared with the landmark technique ods in the intensive care unit setting, and helped to draft the manuscript GK performed both methods in...
... markedly increased ERK1 and ERK2 expression and attenuated reperfusion lung injury and apoptosis, thus presenting a promising approach for moderating lung injury and supporting recovery after clinical ... represents another challenging circumstance in intensive care medicine Interestingly, selective activation of A3 adenosine receptor (AR) subtype attenuated I/R-induced lung injury and associated apoptosis ... the c-Jun amino-terminal protein kinases (JNKs), and p38 kinases Notably, whereas ERK1 and ERK2 exert a cytoprotective effect and are involved in cell proliferation, transformation, and differentiation,...
... group-box protein 1, lipopolysaccharide-binding protein and procalcitonin levels were higher inpatients than in healthy control individuals None of the biomarkers of interest discriminated between ... E: A multicenter, randomized, controlled clinical trial of transfusion requirements incriticalcare Transfusion Requirements inCriticalCare Investigators, Canadian CriticalCare Trials Group ... that acutely increases with infection and plays a role in clearance of endotoxin [19] Procalcitonin is a proinflammatory mediator that has received considerable attention in identifying patients...
... heart failure and, indeed, in critically ill patients many conditions have been shown to increase BNP; for example, sepsis [9], acute lung injury [10], pulmonary embolism [11] and intracerebral ... release inpatients with complex multiorgan dysfunction has limited the interpretation of BNP concentrations in the criticalcare setting Rudiger [9] found that BNP levels inpatients with sepsis ... filtration rate and BNP over and above any evidence of raised filling pressures and concluded that complex interactions must occur between the kidneys and the heart More recently, Park and colleagues...
... GA, Sandrock C, Cohen R, Adini B; European Society of Intensive Care Medicine Task Force for Intensive Care Unit Triage during an Influenza Epidemic or Mass Disaster: Recommendations for intensive ... creatinine levels and neurologic outcomes Utilizing the Acute Kidney Injury Network guidelines for acute kidney injury, the researchers not only determined that this complication is very common in ... from next-of-kin and a double-balloon intraaortic catheter was inserted and a chilled preserving solution infused Kidneys were then removed surgically and subsequently transplanted into a matched...
... reported in this paper come from the patient interview, informant interview, and visiting nurse services medical records (Health Care Financing Administration form 485) To assess current and past ... Financing Administration Office of Strategic Planning: A Profile of Medicare Home Health Washington, DC, HCFA, 1999 12 Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services: Health Care Financing Administration ... identifying depression in these patients Physicians have little opportunity for directly assessing their home health care patients, unlike the patients they see in primary care The visiting nurse...
... ongoing communication initiatives within the Toronto criticalcare community Education and training staff in the use of appropriate protective equipment continues Efforts related to debriefing ... directly with the Ministry of Health to bring forward (in one voice) criticalcare issues and to assist in finding system wide solutions to criticalcare challenges Several lessons emerged from ... coordinated data collection for the purposes of better understanding the criticalcare aspects of the illness [4,5] As a result, thrice weekly teleconference calls involving criticalcare clinicians,...
... Telemedicine An infrastructure for providing intensivist-led care from a distance is receiving much attention Two years ago a report examined the poor uptake of information technology into medicine and ... Canadian Coordinating Office for Health Technology Assessment: Issues in Emerging Health Technologies: Hand-carried Ultrasound Units for Point-of -care Cardiac Examinations Canadian Coordinating Office ... reduced by 27% and length of stay was reduced by 17% [10] The company achieved first place in the Healthcare Innovations in Technology Systems Partnerships Awards in 2001 Intensivists remain a scarce...
... nosocomial infections in medical/surgical ICUs [1,8] Finklestein and colleagues determined an incidence of 10–14 UTI per 1000 catheter days among 337 patientsin a single Israeli ICU [9] Rosser and ... gentamicin in 21% (11/52), tobramycin in 9% (5/53), ceftazidime in 13% (7/53), piperacillin in 61% (31/51), and piperacillin/ tazobactam in 12% (6/51) Imipenem resistance was identified in one ... R64 CriticalCare 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 R65 February 2005 Vol No Laupland et al Erbay H, Yalcin AN, Serin S, Turgut H, Tomatir E, Cetin B, Zencir M: Nosocomial infections in intensive care...
... fluid balance in septic patients Experimental data from Dubin and colleagues in Argentina bring us interesting data regarding increasing oxygen delivery through fluid resuscitation in a septic ... clinical studies on the fundamental topic of fluid resuscitation incriticalcare Clinicians are left to guide their care based on their personal training and interpretation of Available online ... Christ-Crain and colleagues described a new marker in septic patients [19] They measured mid-regional proadrenomedullin in 101 patients with inflammatory signs, and demonstrated increasing levels...
... proinflammatory cytokines tumour necrosis factor-α and IL-6 and the anti-inflammatory cytokine IL-10 inpatients undergoing cardiac surgery Patients were randomized postoperatively to intensive glucose ... routine CXR in ICU, including haemodynamically labile and intubated patients, is low and have abandoned this practice Instead, CXRs are ordered when a patient’s condition changes or after CVP line ... quality In the review by Poeze and coworkers [17] 30 RCTs were scored for quality from to 16 (incorporating randomization, blinding, selection and intervention criteria) Twenty-one trials involved...
... rhabdomyolysis, and hyperkalemia also occurred Seven patients survived and four of these had significant sequelae (amputation of lower limbs and hands in one case, amputation of fingers in two cases, and minor ... chemokines (monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 [MCP-1] and macrophage inflammatory protein-1 alpha [MIP-1α]) and the CXC family of chemokines (GRO-α [growth-related gene product alpha] and IL-8 [interleukin-8]) ... virus (RSV) infection in children The findings indicate that this infection induces systemic disease, and it is therefore important to consider effects on cardiac rhythm, blood pressure, and serum...
... apoptosis in the lung and other organs, including the liver and the diaphragm The clinical importance of these findings is not clear, and further study is needed to see whether these findings are ... pre-existing lung injury in nonintubated, spontaneously breathing patients [16] The authors compared levels of inflammatory biomarkers before and after intubation in a cohort of adults with ALI Inflammatory ... on sedation requirement in the intensive care unit Patientsin the ICU often need sedation and analgesia to treat pain and anxiety associated with endotracheal intubation and mechanical ventilation...
... wide ranging research interests of the intensive care community We hope that these interests will continue and expand Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests ... Thirty-two patients undergoing oesophagectomy were randomly assigned, in a double-blinded fashion, to receive intravenous nitroglycerin or saline during gastric tube construction, and microvascular ... Mignini and colleagues [38] revisited this issue by simultaneously collecting radial and femoral artery waveforms from 55 medical and surgical patients, and analyzed the data using the Bland and...
... emptying in critically ill patients Crit Care 2007, 11:R16 Fruhwald S, Holzer P, Metzler H: Intestinal motility disturbances in intensive carepatients pathogenesis and clinical impact Intensive Care ... cholecystokinin and peptide YY concentrations were significantly higher in these latter patients both at baseline and after gastric feeding Furthermore, while fasting and postprandial cholecystokinin and ... baseline and duodenal feedingPage of (page number not for citation purposes) CriticalCare Vol 12 No Wagner et al induced plasma cholecystokinin levels are higher in critically ill patients than in...
... expensive Modelling mortality has been used for many years incriticalcare [20-23] for benchmarking, process improvement and standardizing illness severity in clinical studies An interesting report ... E: A multicenter, randomized, controlled clinical trial of transfusion requirements incriticalcare Transfusion Requirements inCriticalCare Investigators, Canadian CriticalCare Trials Group ... intensive care unit admission is a predictor of survival Crit Care 2007, 11:R78 25 Anonymous: Predicting outcome in ICU patients 2nd European Consensus Conference in Intensive Care Medicine Intensive...
... adenosine deaminase binding protein, retinol binding protein, cystatin C and renal tubular epithelial antigen-1), enzymes (N-acetyl-β-glucosaminidase, alanine aminopeptidase, alkaline phosphatase, ... therapy Heparin-induced thrombocytopenia (HIT) is caused by a heparin-induced antibody that binds to the heparin-PF-4 complex on the platelet surface Inpatients receiving heparin continuous infusion, ... absolute increase in serum creatinine of more than or equal to 0.3 mg/dl, a percentage increase in serum creatinine of more than or equal to 50% (1.5-fold from baseline), or a reduction in urine output...