30 day mortality in the gusto iib cohort

... statins and beta-blockers, minus the mortality that statin use adds, minus the mortality that beta-blocker use adds, and minus the mortality in patients using neither betablockers nor statins ... analysed the data All authors interpreted the findings SC, ET and AL reviewed the literature SC wrote the first draft and all authors edited the manuscript and approved the final version Competing interests ... reduced 30- day mortality in general ICU patients Key messages • Beta-blocker use is associated with reduced risk of death within 30 days in general ICU patients • The mortality reducing effect...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 07:21

... adult mortality rates The proportional hazards Page of assumption was checked using the spthtest function in Stata Follow-up time (in months) was from the cohort s 36th birthday until the first ... undertaken to compare the effects of psychiatric disorder on adult mortality risk, first including and then excluding this missing category We identified 22 cases of schizophrenia in the sample All ... containing data on all the major potential confounding variables Health inequalities are of increasing public health and policy interest That psychiatric disorders are associated with death is insufficiently...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:23

... patients, mild increased 30- day mortality in patients admitted to the intensive care unit, reflecting the clinical significance of whole blood viscoelastic hemostatic assays such as TEG in critically ... corresponds well with our finding of lactate being independently associated with 30- day mortality also after adjusting for ISS and age The relevance of blood lactate for mortality in trauma patients ... pathologically increased fibrinolysis, 54% (normal < 8%) This patient also demonstrated reduced clot strength, had the highest ISS in the cohort (66) and expired on the day of admission Discussion The main...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 23:20

... pharmacological possibilities the debate regarding prescribing ought to be as prominent as ever Concerning the elderly patient there must be a crusade finding the breaking point were the intention to “well” ... participated in the statistical analysis and the drafting of the manuscript PE participated in the design of the study and the drafting of the manuscript All authors read and approved the final manuscript ... Health Sciences, Linköping University, SE- 581 83 Linköping, Sweden Authors’ contributions INO participated in the design of the study, the statistical analysis and the drafting of the manuscript...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... the study, drafting the manuscript, and interpreting the results ASB assisted in acquiring the data, drafting the manuscript, and interpreting the results All authors have read and approved the ... body mass index and randomization cohort were included in the adjusted models Results There were a total of 5,887 participants in the Lung Health Study, of whom 721 died by the end of the follow-up ... 48.5 years and the mean FEV1 was 74.7% Of these, we had complete data on 5 ,307 who participated in the examination at year (there were 13 deaths before the year visit) Among the 5 ,307 on whom we...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 14:20

... In the ARDS Network randomized controlled trial, low tidal volume ventilation decreased mortality without influencing the incidence of barotraumas [19] In patients with sepsis-induced ARDS, there ... than the other studies [6,7] Another important finding in our study was the lack of correlation between ventilator variables and the presence of pneumothorax Our results agreed with most of the ... pneumothorax in this study, although these did not reach statistical significance In our study, the mortality rate was not significantly increased in patients with pneumothorax In other studies...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 22:22

... treatment were independently associated with the 3 0day mortality 11 The optimal treatment for infections due to MBL-PA should be further investigated 12 Competing interests This study received financial ... equivalent doses) or other immunosuppressive agents for >14 days; the presence of other concomitant infections (infections by other organisms at a site other than the lung, excluding coagulase-negative ... treatment therapy despite in vitro susceptibility [3] Available online http://ccforum.com/content/10/4/R114 Table Characteristics of patients according to 30- day mortality 30- day mortality Variable...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 02:24

... and ICU mortality from 6.3% to 37% Studies were heterogeneous in the way they used SOFA The major themes identified in the evaluation studies were investigating the performance of: single SOFA ... all days examined (the first five days) the temporal SAPS II model including the frequent SOFA patterns (called episodes) had better accuracy, indicated by lower Brier scores, than the original ... prespecified time interval, and mean SOFA was always calculated by taking the average of all total SOFA scores in the prespecified time interval These intervals varied in length, but generally they were...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:23

... occurred in hospitals, clinics and medical centres, but the proportion of death occurring in other settings was significant These data confirm previous findings of significant disparities in sepsis mortality ... to mortality in the United States • The rapid rise of sepsis mortality seen in previous decades has slowed • Population ageing continues to drive growth in the burden of sepsis-associated mortality ... and/or coding of severe sepsis in Nationwide Inpatients Sample data or changes in the attribution and coding of sepsis on death certificates In addition the practice of sampling and weighting may...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 15:22

... cystatin C is diagnostic of acute kidney injury • In the ICU, urinary cystatin C is independently diagnostic of sepsis • In the ICU, urinary cystatin C predicts AKI in the presence of sepsis • In the ... creatinine on entry to ICU, the final creatinine measured in days or at 30 days was used (n = 220), on the assumption that a true baseline was not likely to be higher than this minimum and that the ... baseline creatinine with MDRD misclassifies Acute Kidney Injury in the intensive care unit Clin J Am Soc Nephrol 2010 in press Uchida K, Gotoh A: Measurement of cystatin-C and creatinine in urine...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 20:22

... Abbreviations AKI, acute kidney injury; ICU, intensive care unit; RRT, renal replacement therapy Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests Published: 24 March ... Elseviers M, Lins RL, Van der Niepen P, Hoste E, Malbrain ML, Damas P, Devriendt J; for the SHARF investigators: Renal replacement therapy is an independent risk factor for mortality in critically ... acute kidney injury be initiated and discontinued? Blood Purif 2008, 26:473-484 doi:10.1186/cc10071 Cite this article as: Pestaña D: Does renal replacement therapy increase mortality in the ICU?...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 07:21

... RBC-specific data included the age of the RBC unit at the time of transfusion and the leukodepletion status The age of the blood was determined by subtracting the date of collection from the date of ... 19.6 days on average This compares with 21.2 days in the United States [1] and 16.2 days in Europe [7] In 2007, the mean calculated age of transfused RBCs in the United States was 19.5 days, ... that describes the deterministic part of the variation in the data, point by point Statistical analysis Statistical analysis was performed using SAS version 9.1 (SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC,...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 08:21

... find people in their homes on such a day as most of them go to the market for petty trading, and it is not wise to meet them there for an interview Friday was the best day to find people at their ... a maternal mortality study been carried out there All the studies on maternal mortality in the country are either confined to the main referral hospital in the capital city or in the North Bank ... the poorest among all the others in the country Therefore conducting such a study in this area will provide information on the underlying factors contributing to the high levels of maternal mortality...

Ngày tải lên: 11/12/2016, 11:06

... 21 business during the measurement pe- 22 riod, and 23 ‘‘(II) the number of days in the 24 period beginning on the date of the ac- 25 quisition and ending on the last day of † HR EAS 36 the taxable ... adding at the end the following new paragraph: ‘‘(4) INFLATION ‘‘(A) IN ADJUSTMENT.— GENERAL. In the case of any tax- able year beginning in a calendar year after 2012, the amounts described in ... on the last day of the taxable year of † HR EAS 39 the predecessor in which the disposition is made, divided by the number of days in the tax- able year of the predecessor, and ‘‘(ii) in the...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 06:21

... drafted the manuscript NdK was involved in the set-up of the study, and helped in interpreting the results and in drafting the manuscript NP assisted in the statistical analyses, in interpreting the ... and in drafting the manuscript GJS was involved in the set-up of the NICE registry and helped in drafting the manuscript PvdV was involved in the design of the study and in interpreting the results ... of the analyses EdJ participated in the study design, and helped in the design of the questionnaire, in interpreting the results and in drafting the manuscript All authors read and approved the...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 03:20

... (NRBCs) in the blood In- hospital mortality of medical intensive care patients in relation to the concentration of nucleated red blood cells (NRBCs) in the blood Numbers in parenthesis denote the ... using SAS version 8.02 (SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC, USA) The intention of this study was to evaluate the prognostic power of the presence of NRBCs in the blood with regard to the patients' in- hospital ... detected on the admission day Figure for the first time in the which nucleated red blood cells were detected Intensive care days on blood of medical intensive care patients for the first time in the...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 03:21

... mortality The finding in the current analysis that early changes in serum creatinine and platelet count were independent predictors of mortality has direct clinical implications In the rapidly changing ... of drotrecogin alfa (activated) might be obtained by initiating therapy earlier" Because there is also continuing uncertainty regarding the predictors of outcome in severe sepsis, the present ... may be improving or worsening in the face of no or minor changes in APACHE score Inherent in such delays in escalating therapy may be the impression held by some that apparent clinical stability...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 16:20

... hyperglycemic index (HGI) in mmol/L per patient during the entire ICU period The average number of glucose samples per patient in our unit is 6.2 per day The HGI is defined as the area under the curve ... confidence intervals and P values for mortality in the female part of the population between groups according to different combinations of energy and protein goals reached ICU mortality 28 day mortality ... defined optimal nutrition All authors were involved in the several stages of writing the manuscript RS and PW had full access to all of the data in the study and take responsibility for the integrity...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 18:22

Ngày tải lên: 02/10/2012, 14:17

... corroborate these findings from local independent sources? Using the guide Returning to our opening public health scenario, how well did the study assessing nation-wide mortality in the DRC achieve the ... comparisons The investigators then selected 30 clusters in each health zone and visited 20 houses in each cluster in the West and 30 in the East, a total of 19 500 households and 119 378 people The investigators ... in distinct ways: (i) To quantify the extent to which excess mortality is occurring, by comparing the observed mortality rate with the best available estimate of the baseline mortality rate in...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:31